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Lamentation over the destruction of Ur

by Samuel Noah Kramer

TextsSumerian Elegiac poetrySumerian language

"This lamentation, consisting of eleven songs and 436 lines ... composed and inscribed some time during the Isin-Larsa-Babylon I period ... is practically complete ... Moreover ... the translation as a whole is reasonably certain and relatively free from obscurities"--Pref.

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Book data: Open Library