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A Fragment of a Sumerian Lament: BM 65463, Tablet XI of the balaĝ úru àm-ma-ir-ra-bi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2014

Uri Gabbay
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Abstract

The text of úru àm-ma-ir-ra-bi, the longest extant Sumerian balaĝ-lament, is in the process of recovery and reconstruction from Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform tablets. This article presents a previously unpublished Babylonian tablet fragment that holds part of the composition's hitherto unknown eleventh tablet. The fragment also contains part of the catchline to the twelfth tablet, also unidentified until now, and is thus an important source for the reconstruction of úru àm-ma-ir-ra-bi.

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IRAQ , Volume 73 , 2011 , pp. 161 - 168
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The British Institute for the Study of Iraq © 2011

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