Pacifying the hearts of the gods: Sumerian Emesal prayers of the first millenium BC

Uri Gabbay

Pacifying the hearts of the gods: Sumerian Emesal prayers of the first millenium BC

Institute of Archaeology

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Original language	English
Place of Publication	Wiesbaden
Publisher	Harrassowitz Verlag
Number of pages	356
ISBN (Print)	3447067489, 9783447067485
State	Published - 2014

Publication series

Name	Heidelberger Emesal-Studien
Publisher	Harrassowitz Verlag
Volume	1

Bibliographical note

"Pacifying the hearts of the gods investigates the corpus of Emesal prayers, i.e., prayers composed in the Emesal register of the Sumerian language that are known from cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of the second millennium BC up to the end of the first millennium BC. ... The content of the prayers is usually lamentful, mourning the destruction of various Mesopotamian cities and temples ..."--Back cover.
"This book is a revised, expanded, and rewritten version of the first part of my dissertation ... submitted to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2007."--Page [xix].

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