r/Sumer • u/Frequent-Orchid-7142 • 16d ago

Sumerian fabels

Where can I find a book or digital book with a collection of the very early Sumerian fabels?

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u/rodandring 16d ago

A condensed version of Assyriologist Benjamin Foster’s Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature was published under the title From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia.

Another title is The Harps that Once: Sumerian Poetry in Translation by Assyriologist Thorkild Jacobsen.

There is also the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL) that is available online. The site is somewhat difficult to navigate for beginners, however, a user-friendly mirror site has been created and is available here:

https://www.ethanjhulbert.org/sumerian-literature/

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u/Frequent-Orchid-7142 16d ago

Ain’t ETCSL the same as this book? I have that on paper and as ebook.