Sumerian literature

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Sumerian literature is the body of written works in the Sumerian language, preserved mainly on clay tablets, that includes myths, hymns, epics, legal texts, and scholarly writings from ancient Mesopotamia.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Sumerian literature canonical 4
Mesopotamian epic tradition 1
Sumerian creation myths 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Mesopotamian literature
ancient literature
literature
copiedIn scribal schools
decipheredInCentury 19th century
genreIncludes epic
hymn
incantation
lamentation
legal text
love song
myth
proverb
ritual text
royal inscription
scholarly text
influenced Akkadian literature
Assyrian literature
Babylonian literature
language Sumerian language
locatedInTime 3rd millennium BCE
Akkadian Empire period
linked to: Akkadian Empire

Early Dynastic period of Mesopotamia
Old Babylonian period
Ur III period
medium clay tablets
notableAuthor Enheduanna
notableWork Enki and Ninhursag
Enki and the World Order
Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
Epic of Gilgamesh (Sumerian poems)
linked to: Epic of Gilgamesh

Inanna and Enki
Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld
Kesh Temple Hymn
Lament for Sumer and Ur
linked to: Lament for Ur

Lament for Ur
Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird
Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave
Temple hymns of Enheduanna
The Curse of Agade
The Instructions of Shuruppak
originatedIn Sumer
ancient Mesopotamia
preservationMethod baked clay tablets
unbaked clay tablets
primaryCitiesFeatured Eridu
Lagash
Nippur
Ur
Uruk
primaryDeitiesFeatured Enki
Enlil
Inanna
Nanna
Utu
rediscoveredBy modern Assyriology
linked to: Assyriology
scriptType logophonetic script
usedFor education
legal administration
religious practice
royal propaganda
writingSystem cuneiform script

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Nippur knownFrom Sumerian literature
Dumuzi appearsIn Sumerian laments
linked to: Sumerian literature
Sumerian religion relatedTo Sumerian literature
Enmerkar describedIn Sumerian literature
Enmerkar describedIn Mesopotamian epic tradition
linked to: Sumerian literature
Namtar mentionedIn Sumerian myths
linked to: Sumerian literature
Enlil and Ninlil studiedIn Sumerian literature
Ninhursag appearsIn Sumerian creation myths
linked to: Sumerian literature