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

Print sources used

Alster, B., "Marriage and Love in the Sumerian Love Songs, with some notes on the Manchester Tammuz", in Cohen, Marc E. (ed.), and Snell, D.C., and Weisberg, D.B., The Tablet and the Scroll: Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William W. Hallo CDL Press: Bethesda, MD, 1993, 22-23: commentary (no. 12 (ll. 10-21 = Alster's ll. 26-37))

Jacobsen, Thorkild, "The sister's message", Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Studies 12 (1973), 199¹-212: translation, composite text, commentary

Jacobsen, Thorkild, The Treasures of Darkness. A History of Mesopotamian Religion. Yale University Press: New Haven/London, 1976: translation

Jacobsen, Thorkild, The Harps that Once.... Sumerian Poetry in Translation. Yale University Press: New Haven/London, 1987, 27-28: translation

Kramer, Samuel Noah, "Cuneiform Studies and the History of Literature: The Sumerian Sacred Marriage Texts", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 107 (1963), 485-527: composite text, translation, commentary

Kramer, Samuel Noah, The Sacred Marriage Rite: Aspects of Faith, Myth, and Ritual in Ancient Sumer. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1969, 103-104: translation (lines 8-14, 17-20)

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 Instititue of Assyriology) Bar-Ilan University Press: Ramat-Gan, 1998, 151-164, pls. III-VI, XX, XXI, XLI: handcopy, photograph, commentary, translation, score transliteration

Electronic sources used

Electronic legacy material kindly supplied by:

• Krecher, Joachim (LIT47.TXT, 1998: composite text, translation)
• Krecher, Joachim (EXEMP009.XMP, 1998: score transliteration)
• Sefati, Yitschak (LOVESONG.SEF, 1999: score transliteration, translation)

Cuneiform sources

• NBC 10923 I 18-ii 23
• Ni 4552 obv. (PAPS 107 524; ISET 2 17)
• UM 29-16-8 (photo PAPS 107 522f.)

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