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Print sources
Benito 1969, p. 1-76: translation, composite text, commentary
Bottéro and Kramer 1989, p. 188-198: translation, commentary
Green 1975, p. 170-174: commentary
Jacobsen 1987, p. 151-166: translation, commentary
Klein 1997: commentary, translation
Kramer and Maier 1989, p. 13-14, 31-37, 124, 132-133, 176: commentary, translation
Lambert and Millard 1969, p. 42-70: commentary
Pettinato 1971: commentary
Römer 1993a, p. 386-401: translation, commentary
Sauren 1993, p. 198-208: commentary, translation (ll. 4-46)
Electronic sources
Krecher 1996a: composite text, translation
Cuneiform sources
AO 7936 (TCL 16 71)
BM 12845 (CT 42 28)
CBS 2168 CBS 2202 CBS 11327 (all PBS 1/1 4; PBS 10/4 14) CBS 12738 CBS 13368 (SEM 116)
N 1889 (photo Kramer SM pl. 17E, Sumerians pl. 16f.)
N 2571 ?N 6385
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL) a project of the University of Oxford, comprises a selection of nearly 400 literary compositions recorded on sources which come from ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and date to the late third and early second millennia BCE.
The corpus contains Sumerian texts in transliteration, English prose translations and bibliographical information for each composition. The transliterations and the translations can be searched, browsed and read online using the tools of the website.
Funding for the ETCSL project came to an end in the summer of 2006 and no work is currently being done to this site or its contents.
Print sources
Benito 1969, p. 1-76: translation, composite text, commentary
Bottéro and Kramer 1989, p. 188-198: translation, commentary
Green 1975, p. 170-174: commentary
Jacobsen 1987, p. 151-166: translation, commentary
Klein 1997: commentary, translation
Kramer and Maier 1989, p. 13-14, 31-37, 124, 132-133, 176: commentary, translation
Lambert and Millard 1969, p. 42-70: commentary
Pettinato 1971: commentary
Römer 1993a, p. 386-401: translation, commentary
Sauren 1993, p. 198-208: commentary, translation (ll. 4-46)
Electronic sources
Krecher 1996a: composite text, translation
Cuneiform sources
AO 7936 (TCL 16 71)
BM 12845 (CT 42 28)
CBS 2168 CBS 2202 CBS 11327 (all PBS 1/1 4; PBS 10/4 14) CBS 12738 CBS 13368 (SEM 116)
N 1889 (photo Kramer SM pl. 17E, Sumerians pl. 16f.)
N 2571 ?N 6385
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL) a project of the University of Oxford, comprises a selection of nearly 400 literary compositions recorded on sources which come from ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and date to the late third and early second millennia BCE.
The corpus contains Sumerian texts in transliteration, English prose translations and bibliographical information for each composition. The transliterations and the translations can be searched, browsed and read online using the tools of the website.
Funding for the ETCSL project came to an end in the summer of 2006 and no work is currently being done to this site or its contents.
