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ETCSL catalogue: literary letters, letter-prayers, and law codes

Contents

• Royal correspondence of the Third Dynasty of Ur
• Royal correspondence of the Isin, Larsa, and other dynasties
• Other letters to deities (letter-prayers)
• Other literary letters
• Law codes

Royal correspondence of the Third Dynasty of Ur

• 3.1.01 Letter from Aradngu to Shulgi about Apillasha: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.02 Letter from Shulgi to Aradngu about Apillasha: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.03 Letter from Aradngu to Shulgi about irrigation work: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.04 Letter from Aradngu to Shulgi about attentive citizens: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.05 Letter from Aradngu to Shulgi about Aba-indasa's missing troops: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.06 Letter from Aradngu to Shulgi about the fortress Igi-hursanga: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.06.1 Letter from Shulgi to Aradngu about Aba-indasa: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.07 Letter from Puzur-Shulgi to Shulgi about the advance of the enemy: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.08 Letter from Shulgi to Puzur-Shulgi about work on the fortress Igi-hursanga: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.10 Letter from Shulgi to Puzur-Shulgi about waterways: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.11 Letter to Shulgi about bandits and brigands: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.11.1 Letter from Ur-dun to Shulgi about the purchase of cedar resin: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.12 Letter from Amar-Suena (?) to Shulgi
• 3.1.13 Letter from Shulgi to Amar-Suena
• 3.1.13.1 Letter from Shulgi (?) to Aradngu about troops: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.13.2 Letter from Shulgi to Ishbi-Erra about the purchase of grain: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.15 Letter from Sharrum-bani to Shu-Suen about keeping the Martu at bay: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.16 Letter from Shu-Suen to Sharrum-bani about digging a trench: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.17 Letter from Ishbi-Erra to Ibbi-Suen about the purchase of grain: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.18 Letter from Ibbi-Suen to Ishbi-Erra about his bad conduct: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.19 Letter from Puzur-Shulgi to Ibbi-Suen about Ishbi-Erra's claim on Isin: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.20 Letter from Ibbi-Suen to Puzur-Shulgi hoping for Ishbi-Erra's downfall: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.1.21 Letter from Aba-indasa to Shulgi about his neglect: composite text | translation | bibliography

Royal correspondence of the Isin, Larsa, and other dynasties

• 3.2.01 Letter from Suen-illat to Iddin-Dagan about confronting the Martu: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.2.02 Letter from Iddin-Dagan to Suen-illat about the troops: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.2.03 Letter from Nanna-kiang to Lipit-Eshtar about Gungunum's troops: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.2.04 Letter from Lipit-Eshtar to Nanna-kiang driving away the enemy: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.2.05 Letter from Sîn-iddinam to the god Utu about the distress of Larsa: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.2.06 Letter from Sîn-iddinam to Nininsina
• 3.2.07 Letter from Nin-shagta-pada to Rim-Sîn
• 3.2.08 Letter from Iter-pisha to a deity
• 3.2.09 Letter mentioning Damiq-ilishu
• 3.2.10 Letter from Sîn-muballit to the shandabakkum
• 3.2.11 Letter to Zimri-Lim

Other letters to deities

• 3.3.10 Letter from Inanaka to Nintinuga
• 3.3.19 Letter from Sîn-shamuh to Enki
• 3.3.20 Letter from Gudea to his God imploring support: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.3.21 Letter from Nanna-manshum to the goddess Nininsina about his unsuccessful medical treatment: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.3.22 Letter from X to the god Nanna: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.3.25 Letter from X to Utu
• 3.3.26 Letter from Etel-pi-Damu to Martu
• 3.3.38 Letter from X to Ninisina
• 3.3.39 Letter from Kug-Nanna to Ninshubur: composite text | translation | bibliography

Other literary letters

• 3.3.01 Letter from Ur-saga to a king fearing the loss of his father's household: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 3.3.02 Letter from Lugal-SHU₂/nisang to a King
• 3.3.03 Letter from Lugal-SHU₂/nisang to a King
• 3.3.04 Letter from Ur-Enlila to the ensi and sanga
• 3.3.05 Letter from the ensi and sanga to a King
• 3.3.06 Letter from Aba-dah-lugalnga to his brothers
• 3.3.07 Letter from the 'Monkey' to his mother
• 3.3.08 Letter from ^dUTU-HI to Ilak-ni'id
• 3.3.09 Letter from Lugalnisang to Enlil-massu
• 3.3.11 Letter from KA-Inana to Enlil-massu
• 3.3.12 Letter from KA-Inana to Lugal-ibila
• 3.3.13 Letter from a shabra to the generals
• 3.3.14 Letter from Gudea-Enlila to Dingir-manshum
• 3.3.15 Letter from Iddatum to Sumutara
• 3.3.16 Letter from Sang-lugalbi-zu to Nurkabta
• 3.3.17 Letter from Lugal-ibila to Lugal-nisang
• 3.3.18 Letter from Nabi-Enlil to Silli-Eshtar
• 3.3.23 Letter from Igmil-Sîn to Nudimmud-siga
• 3.3.24 Letter from Nanna-manshum to X
• 3.3.27 Letter from KA-Enlila to the King
• 3.3.28 Letter from X to Y
• 3.3.29 Letter from Nabi-Enlil to his Colleagues
• 3.3.30 Letter from X to a King (?)
• 3.3.31 Letter from Sharrum-bani (?) to Lu-Nanna
• 3.3.32 Letter from Nabi-Enlil to a King
• 3.3.33 Letter from Lugal-ibila to Girini-isag
• 3.3.34 Letter from Lu-Ninurta to Inana-andul-duga
• 3.3.35 Letter from Kug-Ninurta to a King
• 3.3.36 Letter from X to Y
• 3.3.37 Letter from ...-kabta to Enlil-bani

Law codes

• 3.4.1 Laws of Ur-Namma
• 3.4.2 Laws of Lipit-Eshtar
• 3.4.3 Laws of Hammurabi

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