Chapter V. References And Notes : p. 104 CHAPTER V REFERENCES AND NOTES Following is a list of abbreviations used in the notes: "AO" Muse du Louvre, Paris. Antiquits orientales. (Followed by catalogue number). "AOF" "Archiv fr Orientforschung" (Berlin, 1923--). "AOR" "Archiv Orientln" (Prague, 1928--). "AS" Oriental Institute...
Preface : p. v PREFACE The Sumerians were a non-Semitic, non-Indo-European people who flourished in southern Babylonia from the beginning of the fourth to the end of the third millennium B. C. During this long stretch of time the Sumerians, whose racial and linguistic affiliations are still unclassifiable...
Supplementary Notes : p. 120 SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES a. The date 2000 B. C. assigned to the clay tablets on which the Sumerian compositions are inscribed should be reduced by about 250 years as a result of recent studies which point to a date as low as about 1750 B. C. for Hammurabi, a key figure in Mesopotamian chronology...
Chapter Iv. Miscellaneous Myths : p. 97 CHAPTER IV MISCELLANEOUS MYTHS THE DELUGE That the Biblical deluge story is not original with the Hebrew redactors of the Bible has been known now for more than half a century--from the time of the discovery and decipherment of the eleventh tablet of the Semitic Babylonian "Epic of Gilgamesh...
Introduction : p. 1 SUMERIAN MYTHOLOGY INTRODUCTION THE SOURCES: THE SUMERIAN LITERARY TABLETS DATING FROM APPROXIMATELY 2000 B. C. The study of Sumerian culture introduced by the present volume, "Sumerian Mythology", is to be based largely on Sumerian literary sources; it will consist of the formulati...
Chapter Iii. Myths Of Kur : p. 76 CHAPTER III MYTHS OF KUR One of the most difficult groups of concepts to identify and interpret is that represented by the Sumerian word "kur". That one of its primary meanings is "mountain" is attested by the fact that the sign used for it is actually a pictograph representing a mount...
List Of Illustrations : p. xxi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PLATES Man's Golden Age "Frontispiece FACING PAGE I. A Scene from the Nippur Excavations: Rooms of the Temple "Tablet House" 8 II. Oldest Literary Catalogue 14 III. Nippur Archaic Cylinder 18 IV. Gudea Cylinder 19 V. "Chicago" Syllabary 22 VI. Nippur Grammatical Text...
Title Page : SUMERIAN MYTHOLOGY A Study Of Spiritual And Literary Achievement In The Third Millennium B.C. SAMUEL NOAH KRAMER REVISED EDITION University Of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia [1944, Revised 1961] Scanned , October 2004. John Bruno Hare, Redactor. This Text Is In The Public Domain In The US Because...
Frontispiece : MAN'S GOLDEN AGE This tablet (29.16.422 in the Nippur collection of the University Museum) is one of the unpublished pieces belonging to the Sumerian epic poem 1 whose hero Enmerkar ruled in the city of Erech sometime during the fourth millennium B. C. The passage enclosed by the black line...
Untitled : SUMERIAN MYTHOLOGY BY SAMUEL NOAH KRAMER [1944, 1961] The Sumerians were a non-Semitic, non-Indo-European people who lived in southern Babylonia from 4000-3000 B.C.E. They invented cunieform writing, and their spiritual beliefs influenced all successive Near Eastern religions, including Judaism...
Chapter Ii. Myths Of Origins : p. 30 CHAPTER II MYTHS OF ORIGINS 1 The most significant myths of a given culture are usually the cosmogonic, or creation myths, the sacred stories evolved and developed in an effort to explain the origin of the universe, the presence of the gods, and the existence of man. And so we shall devote...
Chapter I. The Scope And Significance : p. 26 CHAPTER I THE SCOPE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF SUMERIAN MYTHOLOGY The science of comparative mythology, like almost all the sciences, exact and inexact, is largely a product of the nineteenth century; its origin and development followed closely upon that of comparative philology, the science...
