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

Print sources used

Alster, Bendt, "Marriage and Love in the Sumerian Love Songs, with some notes on the Manchester Tammuz", in Cohen, Marc E. (ed.), Snell, D.C. (ed.), Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William W. Hallo CDL Press: Bethesda, MD, 1993, 15-27. Page 23: commentary (no. 13/2 (ll. 49-54); note 21 (l. 5))

Alster, Bendt, Dumuzi's dream. Aspects of oral poetry in a Sumerian myth. (Mesopotamia. Copenhagen Studies in Assyriology, 1) Akademisk Forlag: Copenhagen, 1972, p. 108: commentary (lines 34-42)

Falkenstein, A., "Tammuz", in Comptes rendus des Rencontres Assyriologiques Internationales, 3 Leiden 1954, 41-65: pp. 51-52: translation (translation of lines 19-25, 41-53)

Jacobsen, Thorkild, The Harps that Once.... Sumerian Poetry in Translation. Yale University Press: New Haven/London, 1987, 13-15: translation (translation of lines 1-18, 41-54)

Jacobsen, Thorkild, The Treasures of Darkness. A History of Mesopotamian Religion. Yale University Press: New Haven/London, 1976, pp. 30-32: translation (translation of ll. 1-18, 41-54)

Kramer, Samuel Noah, The Sacred Marriage Rite: Aspects of Faith, Myth, and Ritual in Ancient Sumer. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1969, pp. 68-70: translation (translation of lines 3-53)

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, 120-127, pls. I, II, XV, XVI: score transliteration, translation, commentary, photograph, handcopy

van Dijk, J.J.A., La Sagesse suméro-accadienne. Brill: Leiden, 1953, 65-85: composite text, translation, commentary (edition based on one source only)

Electronic sources used

Electronic legacy material kindly supplied by:

Krecher, Joachim (LIT47.TXT, 1998: composite text, translation)
Sefati, Yitschak (LOVESONG.SEF, 1999: composite text, translation)

Cuneiform sources

CBS 8085
CBS 10465 (PBS 1/1 6; BE 30 4, photo pl. 3f.)
N 4305 i (PAPS 107 521)

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