Sumerians

This source names Sumerians directly: "Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses is a peer-reviewed open academic reference, part of the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus project at the University of Pennsylvania, with entries..."

This source names Sumerians directly: "Fuad Safar, Mohammad Ali Mustafa and Seton Lloyd conducted the excavation reported in this official volume from Iraq's State Organization of Antiquities and Heritage, documenting the ancient..."

Remembered by the Sumerians as the first city.

This source names Sumerians directly: "A Sumerian goddess whose name is read "heavenly grapevine", sister of the shepherd god Dumuzi and, in several texts, a skilled interpreter of dreams, called on by Dumuzi himself to read the..."

Gilgamesh was a king of Uruk; Sumerian poems about him underlie the later Akkadian epic.

This source names Sumerians directly: "Jeremy Black and Anthony Green's dictionary works entry by entry from the excavated iconographic and textual record of Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian religion, giving each deity, demon or symbol..."

This source names Sumerians directly: "The Gudsisu Festival was a Sumerian agricultural festival centred on the city of Nippur, marking the beginning of the plowing season and invoking divine sanction for the year's cultivation."

This source names Sumerians directly: "Betty De Shong Meador is a scholar and translator, and this University of Texas Press book is her scholarly translation and study of poems attributed to Enheduanna, the Sumerian high priestess..."

Inanna's descent to the underworld is preserved in Sumerian, the oldest full telling of the descent theme.

This source names Sumerians directly: "The opening formula of the Sumerian King List, "when kingship descended from heaven," asserting that the institution of kingship itself was a direct gift of the gods to earth, first at the city of..."

Mesopotamian Religion begins in Sumer, whose gods and rites Babylon and Assyria inherited.

This source names Sumerians directly: "The sukkal, or divine vizier, and messenger of the goddess Inanna, best known as the sole loyal servant in "Inanna's Descent to the Underworld", who obeys her mistress's instructions exactly, mourns..."

Nippur, seat of Enlil's Ekur, was the religious capital where kingship was confirmed.

This source names Sumerians directly: "This is the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's own account, on its institutional website, of Nippur and the Penn Museum's own excavation expeditions to the site, one..."

This source names Sumerians directly: "The Sumerian goddess of writing, grain and accounting, patron of the scribal schools where cuneiform was taught, invoked at the close of many literary and administrative texts as the one who grants..."

This source names Sumerians directly: "A Sumerian and Akkadian god of fire and light who serves as sukkal, or divine vizier, to Enlil, carrying messages and standing as witness to Enlil's decrees."

This source names Sumerians directly: "The eight-pointed star belongs to Inanna in Sumerian and Ishtar in Akkadian, and it is a planetary sign before it is a personal one: the goddess is identified with Venus, the morning and evening star."

The Sumerians.

This source names Sumerians directly: "Erica Reiner's Surpu, published in the Archiv fur Orientforschung series in Graz in 1958, is the standard critical edition of the Sumerian and Akkadian incantation series used in ancient..."

This source names Sumerians directly: "The Mesopotamian temple functioned not merely as a shrine but as the economic and administrative household of its resident god, called simply e in Sumerian, literally house."

This source names Sumerians directly: "The 12th Planet, Zecharia Sitchin's 1976 book from Stein and Day, is the founding statement of the ancient-astronaut reading of the Anunnaki as visitors from a supposed twelfth planet, based on..."

This source names Sumerians directly: "Andrew George's edition is the standard critical scholarly edition of the Gilgamesh epic, working directly from the cuneiform tablets themselves to set out the documented relationship between the..."

This source names Sumerians directly: "This is a scholarly online corpus built by a named team of specialist Assyriologists at Oxford, offering transliterations and translations of the Sumerian literary corpus, the Descent of Inanna..."

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This source names Sumerians directly: "Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Eleanor Robson and Gabor Zolyomi are Assyriologists and Sumerologists, and this academic book, published by Oxford University Press, surveys the surviving literature..."

This source names Sumerians directly: "The Sumerian King List is an ancient Mesopotamian text, composed in its surviving early second millennium BCE form, that names Gilgamesh among the rulers of the first dynasty of Uruk."

This source names Sumerians directly: "Thorkild Jacobsen's 1939 critical edition of the Sumerian King List, presenting the cuneiform text with transliteration, translation and notes, and establishing the reading of the list as a..."

This source names Sumerians directly: "Marie-Louise Thomsen was a Sumerologist, and this Akademisk Forlag book is her scholarly introduction to the history and grammatical structure of the Sumerian language."

Ur, city of the moon god Nanna, holds the best preserved ziggurat and the royal tombs.

Uruk is the defining city of the Sumerian south.

This source names Sumerians directly: "Utukku Lemnutu, "Evil Utukku Demons" (Sumerian Udug-hul), is a sixteen-tablet Akkadian exorcistic incantation series directed against a wide range of evil demons, ghosts and other malefactors held..."

Southern Iraq holds the mounds of Uruk, Ur, Eridu and Nippur.

Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers, begins its recorded history in Sumer.

Sumerian is the civilization's own tongue and the world's first written language.

An, the sky father, is the remote head of the Sumerian pantheon and source of the highest authority.

Dumuzi, the shepherd god of fertility, was Inanna's consort at Uruk and one of the oldest attested figures of the Sumerian pantheon.

Enki, lord of the sweet waters and of cunning, kept the divine ordinances at Eridu.

Enlil, lord of the air, ruled the divine assembly from the Ekur at Nippur.

Inanna, goddess of love and war, the morning and evening star, shared Uruk with An.

Ninhursag, the mother goddess who shapes bodies, was praised at her temple at Kesh in one of the oldest surviving Sumerian hymns.

Ninkasi, goddess of beer and brewing, is attested in Sumerian god lists and offering texts from early in the Mesopotamian record.

Utu, the sun, saw everything and judged accordingly, patron of justice at Sippar and Larsa.