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Sumerian Hymns and Prayers to God Nin-Ib
Radau, Hugo. 1911. Sumerian Hymns and Prayers to God Nin-Ib. The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania (BE) 29/1. Philadelphia: Department of Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania. [Note that Nin-Ib is an early misreading of the god Nin-urta]
The volume as a whole is available in PDF at ETANA:
http://www.case.edu/univlib/preserve/Etana/sumer_hymn-prayer_to_nin-ib/sumer_hymn-prayer_nin-ib.html
The individual tablets can be accessed in the CDLI through the following links:
- BE 29/1 1 — P266482 — CBS 11325 + CBS 11348 + CBS 11362 + CBS 11367
- BE 29/1 2 — P264622 — CBS 9232
- BE 29/1 3 — P265221 — CBS 9935
- BE 29/1 4 — P266997 — CBS 11859
- BE 29/1 5 — P266340 — CBS 11179
- BE 29/1 6 — P259352 — CBS 2347
- BE 29/1 7 — P266252 — CBS 11087
- BE 29/1 8 — P258539 — CBS 1205 + CBS 1837 + CBS 1839 + HS 1603
- BE 29/1 9 — P268382 — CBS 13301
- BE 29/1 10 — P259285 — CBS 2237
- BE 29/1 11 — P268188 — CBS 13103
- BE 29/1 12 — P267325 — CBS 12701
- BE 29/1 13 — P259251 — CBS 2196 + CBS 2205
Exploits of Ninurta
Most of the tablets published by Radau in this volume were witnesses to the text known, variously, as (i) Lugal-e, (ii) Lugal ud me-lam2-bi nir-gal2 or (iii) The exploits of Ninurta. See ETCSL for synthetic transliteration and bibliography, as well as an English translation.
BE 29/1 number | sigla in van Dijk 1983 | line numbers in van Dijk's edition |
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BE 29/1 11 | C1 | 221-230 and 231-240 |
BE 29/1 8 | F1 | 273-286 and 338-355 (numerous additional joins) |
BE 28/1 6 | G1 | 237-245 and 290-304 |
BE 28/1 2 | H1 | 334-358 and 359-375 |
BE 28/1 3 | I1 | 334-354 and 355-375 |
BE 28/1 7 | C2 | 450-478 and 480-512 |
BE 28/1 10 | Y2 | 670-678 and 723-728 |
BE 28/1 13 | Z2 | 711-722 and 723-728 |