Sumerian Mythology Illustrations
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]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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PLATES |
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Man's Golden Age |
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| I. |
A Scene from the Nippur Excavations: Rooms of the Temple "Tablet House" |
| II. |
Oldest Literary Catalogue |
| III. |
Nippur Archaic Cylinder |
| IV. |
Gudea Cylinder |
| V. |
"Chicago" Syllabary |
| VI. |
Nippur Grammatical Text |
| VII. |
Gods and the Nether World |
| VIII. |
The Separation of Heaven and Earth |
| IX. |
Enlil Separates Heaven and Earth |
| X. |
Miscellaneous Mythological Scenes |
| XI. |
Enlil and Ninlil: the Begetting of Nanna |
| XII. |
Gods of Vegetation |
| XIII. |
Enki and Ninhursag: the Affairs of the Water-god |
| XIV. |
Enki, the Water-god |
| XV and XVI. |
Inanna and Enki: the Transfer of the Arts of Civilization from Eridu to Erech |
| XVII and XVIII. |
The Creation of Man |
| XIX. |
Gods and Dragons |
| 20. |
Inanna's Descent to the Nether World |
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TEXT FIGURES |
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| 1. |
The Origin and Development of the Sumerian System of Writing |
| 2. |
The Deluge |
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MAP |
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Sumer in the First Half of the Third Millennium B.C. |
