Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms

Introduction. Lamentation of Ishme-Dagan Over Nippur. 13856 (No. 1) Liturgy of Ishme-Dagan. 11005 (No. 2) Liturgical Hymn to Innini. 7847 (No. 3 and duplicate No. 4) Psalm to En...

339 Semitic _lu-uk-mi-is-su_, glossed _kamû_. _kamû_, “to bind,” is the natural rendering of _lal_. The Semitic should perhaps be neglected as faulty and the Sumerian rendered,...

Enlil (god), 258; 259; 261; 264; 265; 266; 267; 268; 269; 277; 281; 282; 283; 292; 293; 295; 299; 300; 302; 307; 309. As sun god, 308, 18 and 15.

122 Probably a variant of _dù-azag_. As the phrase is written _dug-azag-ga_ might mean “holy knees,” _birku ellitu_, but that is not probable. A parallel passage occurs in the l...

Only the ends of lines of a large part of the ninth song are preserved in Rev. III. The tenth song probably occupied most of the space in Rev. IV. Speculation concerning the num...

This liturgical psalm in one melody adds one more document of this kind to the classical Sumerian corpus of old short musical services on which the later complex liturgies were...

24. _gab-ri Bár-sip-(ki) kima labiri-šu ša-ṭir-ma barim duppu __d.__Bêl-iḳ-ṣur māri-šu ša __d.__Bêl-iškun-ni_ 24. Copy from Barsippa, according to its original, written and coll...

38. _an-ni a-ma-an-tú an-gù(?) an-ni a-ma-an-tú šă-ab ám-ma-ab-túg-e_ 38. Unto heaven verily I will libate water, unto the _canopy_ of heaven, unto heaven verily I will libate w...

Keš and Opis must have been closely associated with both Erech and Šuruppak, and of traditional veneration in Sumer. Keš is mentioned in a list with Ur, Kullab (part of Erech) a...

539 But Mars in Amos 5, 26. I accept here the later identifications, Nergal-Mars, Ninurta-Saturn. The identifications in the earlier period of Babylonian astronomy appear to hav...