Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions

Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions is a 1918, Sumerian linguistics and mythology book written by George Aaron Barton.^[1]

Miscellaneous Babylonian Inscriptions

Semitic Babylonian contract-tablet inscribed in the reign of Hammurabi
Author	George Aaron Barton
Language	English
Subject	Language, Sumerology, Cuneiform studies, Translation
Publisher	Yale University Press, Oxford University Press
Publication date	August 1918
Publication place	United States
Media type	print (hardback)
Pages	177pp (first edition)
ISBN	978-1-148-59897-0
OCLC	2539495
Dewey Decimal	492/.1
LC Class	PJ3711 .Y34 1983

Sumerian Cuneiform Cylinder similar to the "Barton Cylinder"

It was first published by Yale University Press in the United States and deals with commentary and translations of twelve cuneiform, Sumerian myths and texts discovered by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology excavations at the temple library at Nippur.^[2] Many of the texts are extremely archaic, especially the Barton Cylinder, which Samuel Noah Kramer suggested may date as early as 2500 BC.^[3] A more modern dating by Joan Goodnick Westenholz has suggested the cylinder dates to around 2400 BC.^[4]

Contents

Some of the myths contained in the book are shown below:

Modern title	Museum number	Barton's title
Debate between sheep and grain	14,005	A Creation Myth
Barton Cylinder	8,383	The oldest religious text from Babylonia
Enlil and Ninlil	9,205	Enlil and Ninlil
Self-praise of Shulgi (Shulgi D)	11,065	A hymn to Dungi
Old Babylonian oracle	8,322	An Old Babylonian oracle
Kesh temple hymn	8,384	Fragment of the so-called "Liturgy to Nintud"
Debate between Winter and Summer	8,310	Hymn to Ibbi-Sin
Hymn to Enlil	8,317	An excerpt from an exorcism
Lament for Ur	19,751, 2,204, 2,270 & 2,302	A prayer for the city of Ur