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18 SUMERIANGRAMMAR
220-3]. Royal inscriptions of Samsuiluna, Hammurabi, Ammizaduga
and Ammiditana occasionally provided with Semi tic translations (not
interlinear but on different tablets 01' on a column to the right of the
Sumerian) prove the vitality of the ancient literature as late as 2000 B. C.
§ 18. The religious literature consisting of liturgies, hymns, epics
and incantations comes from the DI' and Isin periods. KINGhas publish­
ed the most perfect examples in CT. XV, 7-30'. RADAUgave interest­
ing fragments of liturgies, hymns and epics in the HilpT'echt AnniveT'­
saT'Y Volume and in BE. Ser. D, V, pt. 2. A large fragment of a
Nippurian liturgy by LANGDON,Bab., III, 241-9. Two long tablets con­
taining incantations are to be found in CT. IV, 3.42• An incantation
from the same period by BRuMMER, RT. XXVII, 214-273, and one by
HUBER in theHilpT'echt AnniveT'sary Volwne4• Fragments of liturgies
by LANGDONin Babyloniaca, 11 1 74. Lates copies of a large number of
the long liturgies have been collected and edited by LANGDON,op. cit.
A tablet has been found giving lists of the first lines of a very
large number of classical liturgies, and hymns for public and private
service'; also a short list of the titles of seventeen liturgies written on a
small cylinder 6.
1. The en tire collection in LANGDON,Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms,
which see for other earlier literature. SOHOLLMEYER,MVG., 1908, no 4, has given
an edition ofCT. XV 24-5. A large collection of unpublished religions texts in the
museums of London, Edinbourgh and Oxford, in preparation by LANGDON. Texts
from Nippur in preparation by BADAUand MYHRMAN.. MESSERSOHMIDTalso promises
a considerable volume of Sumerian texts from the museums of Berlin and
Constantinople.
2. Pl. 4 edited Bab., lIl, 14-19 and a résumé of pl. 3, p. 20.
3. Vide Bab., IlI, 10.
4. Vide Bab., lIl, 255.
5. IV R. 53. Vide SBP., p. IX.
6. LUOKENBILL,A. J. S. L., 1909, October, cf. Bab.~ 1I1 248.
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