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Management number 231923868 Release Date 2026/06/18 List Price $10.69 Model Number 231923868
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The eminent Assyriologist Thorkild Jacobsen, author of Treasures of Darkness, here presents translations of ancient Sumerian poems written near the end of the third millennium b.c.e., including a number of compositions that have never before been published in translation. The themes developed in the poems—quite possibly the earliest poems extant—are those that have fascinated humanity since the time people first began to spin stories: the longings of young lovers; courage in battle; joy at the birth of a child; the pleasures of drink and song. Read more

ISBN10 0300072783
ISBN13 978-0300072785
Edition Reprint
Language English
Publisher Yale University Press
Dimensions 6.25 x 1.5 x 9.5 inches
Item Weight 1.6 pounds
Print length 528 pages
Publication date September 23, 1997

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