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VEN before the first volume of texts excavated at Sultantepe came off the press, the preliminary reports and the edition and translation of such primeurs as a tablet of the Gilgame' epic, the Cuthean Legend, new and important fragments of the Creation epic, the Epic of Era, Ludlul bul nameqi, by O. R. Gurney and W. G. Lambert (see STT, I, 1 ff., Contents), foretold of the extraordinary riches that this site will provide for the knowledge of Babylonian literature. My favorite, the same, I assume, as that of most of my colleagues, is the delightful Tale of the Poor Man of Nippur. But this sampling could hardly comprise all the literary genres, many of them new, unusual, and by the same token unsuspected, that this publication of the cuneiform texts from Sultantepe reveals. The major texts, that is, epics and legends, as well as wisdom texts, as indicated above, have found a quick response on the part of the scholars responsible for the publication. The poor cousins, this time, are the magic and religious texts, of which we seem to have a surfeit at the present. However, the latter, as well as some of the medical texts published in this volume, not only supplement our previous knowled
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- Author
- Erica Reiner
- Published
- 1960
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)