Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions
 Semitic Babylonian contract-tablet inscribed in the reign of Hammurabi | |
| Author | George Aaron Barton |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Language, Sumerology, Cuneiform studies, Translation |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, Oxford University Press |
Publication date | August 1918 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | print (hardback) |
| Pages | 177pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 978-1-148-59897-0 |
| OCLC | 2539495 |
| 492/.1 | |
| LC Class | PJ3711 .Y34 1983 |
Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions is a 1918, Sumerian linguistics and mythology book written by George Aaron Barton.[1]
It was first published by Yale University Press in the United States and deals with commentary and translations of twelve cuneiform, Sumerian myths and texts discovered by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology excavations at the temple library at Nippur.[2] Many of the texts are extremely archaic, especially the Barton Cylinder, which Samuel Noah Kramer suggested may date as early as 2500 BC.[3] A more modern dating by Joan Goodrick Westenholz has suggested the cylinder dates to around 2400 BC.[4]
Contents
Some of the myths contained in the book are shown below:
| Modern title | Museum number | Barton's title |
|---|---|---|
| Debate between sheep and grain | 14,005 | A Creation Myth |
| Barton Cylinder | 8,383 | The oldest religious text from Babylonia |
| Enlil and Ninlil | 9,205 | Enlil and Ninlil |
| Self-praise of Shulgi (Shulgi D) | 11,065 | A hymn to Dungi |
| Old Babylonian oracle | 8,322 | An Old Babylonian oracle |
| Kesh temple hymn | 8,384 | Fragment of the so-called "Liturgy to Nintud" |
| Debate between Winter and Summer | 8,310 | Hymn to Ibbi-Sin |
| Hymn to Enlil | 8,317 | An excerpt from an exorcism |
| Lament for Ur | 19,751, 2,204, 2,270 & 2,302 | A prayer for the city of Ur |
References
- ^ George Aaron Barton (1918). Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions. Yale University Press. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
- ^ C. Wade Meade (1974). Road to Babylon: Development of U.S. Assyriology. Brill Archive. pp. 87–. ISBN 978-90-04-03858-5. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
- ^ Samuel Noah Kramer (1961). Sumerian Mythology: a study of spiritual and literary achievement in the third millennium B.C. Forgotten Books. pp. 28 & 148. ISBN 978-1-60506-049-1. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
- ^ Miguel Ángel Borrás; Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (2000). La fundación de la ciudad: mitos y ritos en el mundo antiguo. Edicions UPC. pp. 46–. ISBN 978-84-8301-387-8. Retrieved 5 June 2011.