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A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana C): bibliography

Print sources used

Alster, Bendt, "Sumerian Love Songs", Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale 79 (1985), 146-152: composite text, translation, commentary

Deimel, A., Shumerische Grammatik mit Übungsstücken und zwei Anhängen. (2nd ed.), Pontifical Biblical Institute: Rome, 1939, 256ff.: translation, commentary, score transliteration (edition based on Ni 2429)

Gurney, O.R. and Kramer, S.N., Sumerian Literary Texts in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts, 5), Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1976, 43: translation, score transliteration (lines 4-7)

Heimpel, W., Tierbilder in der sumerischen Literatur. (Studia Pohl, series minor) Pontifical Biblical Institute: Rome, 1968: 232-233: translation, score transliteration (lines 33-38)

Jacobsen, T., "Religious Drama in Ancient Mesopotamia", in Goedicke, H. and Roberts, J.J.H. (eds.), Unity and Diversity: Essays in the History, Literature and Religion of the Ancient Near East (The Johns Hopkins Near Eastern Studies, 7), Baltimore/London, 1976: 65-97. P. 83 n.12: translation, composite text (lines 39-45)

Jacobsen, Thorkild, The Harps that Once.... Sumerian Poetry in Translation. Yale University Press: New Haven/London, 1987, 16-18: translation

Kramer, S.N., "Corrections and additions to SRT", Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 52 (1957), 75-86: 79 (collation of Ni 2429)

Kramer, Samuel Noah, The Sacred Marriage Rite: Aspects of Faith, Myth, and Ritual in Ancient Sumer. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1969, 97-98: translation

Sefati, Yitschak, Love songs in Sumerian literature: critical edition of the Dumuzi-Inanna songs. (Bar-Ilan Studies in Near Eastern Languages and Culture. Publications of the Samuel N. Kramer Institute of Assyriology) Bar-Ilan University Press: Ramat-Gan, 1998 132-150, pl. IX, XVIII, XIX, XXII: score transliteration, translation, commentary, handcopy, photograph

van Dijk, J.A.A., "Le fête du nouval an dans un texte de Shulgi", Bibliotheca Orientalis 11 (1954), 83-88. P. 87: translation, score transliteration (tranlit. and transl. based on Ni 2429 (lines 1-9; 16-18))

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