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A song of praise to Amurru
Artifact: Clay tablet
Period: Old Babylonian Period (ca 1900-1600 BC)
Current location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (Ashm 1923-766)
Text genre, language: Literary; Akkadian
CDLI page, ETCSL page
Description: This is a unique hymn to the god Amurru (Sum. MAR.TU), who is frequently depicted on Old Babylonian cylinder seals as a god holding a crook and referred to by the theophoric element in the seal owner's name. The hymn, whose reverse is mostly broken praises this god. Compared to the vast corpus of Sumerian divine songs of praise it is one of the few Akkadian texts praising a deity. (Klaus Wagensonner, University of Oxford)
Lineart: OECT 11, 001
Edition(s): Gurney, O.R. 1989. Literary and miscellaneous texts in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts 11, Oxford, 15 - 9.
