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Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

Access: Publicly available resource

Description: Comprises Sumerian text, English prose translation and bibliographical information for each composition. Based at the University of Oxford, the aim of the project is to make accessible over 400 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) during the late third and early second millennia BCE.

Coverage: Various Dates

Subject(s):
African & Middle East Studies
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