A Sumerian šu-íl-la from Nimrud with a Prayer for Sin-šar-iškun
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24075152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jerrold S Cooper (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iraq (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0889 • E-ISSN: 2053-4744 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4199891 |
| OpenAlex | W1970389071 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The Sumerian su-il-la is an Emesal composition which,like the balag and er-sem-ma, was utilized in public worship. Forty-seven su-il-la incipits are listed in the kalutu catalogue IVR 53 + RA 18 (1921), 158f., but the broken state of the catalogue and the poor state of preservation of the majority of Emesal texts makes it impossible to identify most of the catalogue entries. Only three surviving texts can be identified with certainty—by their colophon or presence in the catalogue or both—as Sumerian su-il-la's: A. Sjoberg Mondgott 166ff . Sin; incipit IVR 53 iii 48 F. H. Weissbach Misc . pl. 13F. and duplicates Marduk; incipit IVR 53 iii 54 (edited below). R Acc . 70f. and 108ff. An; the beginning is broken, so that it cannot be ascertained whether this is the su - i l - la to An whose incipit is listed in IVR 53 iii 44 The last two contain subscripts specifying the cult occasions upon which they were to be recited. Four additional fragments can probably be classified as su-il-la's because of their extensive parallels to the Sin and Marduk su-il-la's (see below). Unlike the balag and er-sem-ma, the su-il-la was never organized into long liturgical compositions, but the individual su-il-la's collected in Ashurbanipal's library were arranged within the library in a fixed order, corresponding to the order in which they were listed in the catalogue IVR 53 . This can be shown by the fact that the catch line of the Sin su-il-la (as preserved in IVR 9) is identical to the incipit which follows the incipit of that Sin su-il-l a in the kalutu catalogue.
Ancient history · Art · Cult · Humanities · Literature · Order (exchange) · Sumerian · Theology · Worship · Ancient Near East History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 1992 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |