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Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms

Chapter 21: Index To Vol. X
By Stephen Langdon
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A scholarly edition collects translations and restorations of Sumerian liturgical and psalmic texts from the Nippur temple library, presenting didactic zagsal hymns, canonical liturgies, cultic odes, and communal laments. An introductory study explains the temple-school transmission and the evolution of lengthy prayer services, while annotated texts reconstruct hymns to major deities, ritual intercessions, mourning songs for ruined cities, and royal didactic poems linked to creation and flood motifs. The edition combines philological notes and tablet indexes to illuminate liturgical structure, textual variants, and the role of these compositions within early Mesopotamian religious practice.

Index To Vol. X

abal, irrigator, 287, 12.
Abbagula (deity), 341, 11.
agubba, vessel, symbol of Ninhabursildu, 336, 1.
Aja (goddess), 305, 14.
Allat (goddess), 306, 20.
am, dAm, title of Ea, 294.
Ama-šuhalbi, title of mother goddess, 329, 19.
Ama-ušum-gal, title of Tammuz, 304.
Annigarra, temple in Isin, 300, 7.
Anu (god), 261; 264; 281; 282; 295; 297; 302.
Identified with the moon god, 337, 10.
Anunnaki (gods), 247, 2; 262; 317; 340.
Arabu, bird of Enlil, 266.
Aralu, 288, 23.
Aruru (goddess), sister of Enlil, 301.
Ašimur, title of moon god, 277, 17 and 22; 278.
Ašnan (goddess), 289; 305.
Ašširgi (god), 316; 317; 318; 319; 320.
Ašte, temple in Larak, 289, 9.
Azagsud (ilu), title of grain goddess, 289, 10; 305, 13.
Babylon (city), 301, 22.
balag-di, choral phrase, 250, 14; 254, 26.
Barsippa (city), 301, 23.
Bau (goddess), 329; 305.
Belit-ṣêri (goddess), 338.
Bel-ṣarbe, title of Nergal, 337, 18.
bitumen, symbol of river god, 339.
Canonical liturgies, 237 ff.
censer, symbol of Urashā, 339, 10.
copper, symbol of Ea, 337, 12.
crane, bird symbol of Ninsig, 340.
Damgalnunna (goddess), 294; 296.
Damu, title of Tammuz, 287, 6:14; 306, 28.
date-palm, symbol of Tammuz, 336, 5.
Dilbat (goddess), 337, 16.
Dilmun (ki), 279, 14:19.
dog, seven-headed, 305, 15.
Duazag, sanctuary, 248, 7; 289.
dumu-sag, title of Tašmet, 326, 4:5.
dingir dumu-sag (= Nappasi = Ninmungara) is probably a title of Ninlil, 303, 13. See ibid. note 6 and SBP. 150 note 5, line 14.
Ea (god), 336, 6.
E-anna, temple of Ištar in Erech, 275, 20.
E-barra, temple of the sun god, 301.
E-daranna, chapel of Ea in Esagila, 301.
E-dimma, temple, royal chapel in Ekur, 289, 15.
E-durazagga, epithet of Isin, 329, 18.
E-galmah, temple at Isin, 289, 19.
e-gi-a, bride, title of Zarpanit, 326, 3.
E-Ibi-anum, temple in Dilbat, 326.
E-Ibe-šagud, 328.
E-kua, 310, 19.
E-kur, temple of Enlil, 256; 258; 259; 289; 308; 310; 328.
Ekurum (god), 341.
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E-lamma, chapel or temple of Ninlil at Nippur, 300, 6.
el-plant, symbol of Ninā, 336, 8.
E-maha, 294, 27 and note.
E-mahtila, chapel in Ezida, 301.
E-mudkurramu, chapel (?) in Ur (?), 279, 6:10.
E-namtila, chapel of Ekur, 301.
Enanun, title of mother goddess, 289, 7; 304.
Enbul (god), son of Ešabba, 303, 21 = SBP. 15216 and CT. 24, 23, 127.
Var. dA-an-bu-bu, CT. 24, 6, 33.
Endašurimma, title of Enlil, 302, 4.
En-duazag, title of Enlil, 302.
EN-HAR(ki), 316; 317; 318; 319; 320.
Enki (god), 259, 16; 302; 307; 322.
Enlil (god), 258; 259; 261; 264; 265; 266; 267; 268; 269; 277; 281; 282; 283; 292; 293; 295; 299; 300; 302; 307; 309. As sun god, 308, 18 and 15.
Enlilsi, deified king, 303, 20.
Enmešarra (god), 337, 11; 338, 30.
Enmenšarra, 302.
Enul, title of Enlil, 302.
Enmul, 307.
Enuttilla, title of Enlil, 302.
E-rabriri, temple of sakkut, 329, 21.
Erech (city), 272; 273; 274; 275.
Eridu (city), 259, 16; 299, 31.
E-šabba, temple of Gula in Šuruppak, 288, 6; 303, 21;
ilatSuddam is mother of Ešabba, 306, 32.
See Suddam.
E-sagila, temple of Marduk, 301; 326.
E-šagnamsar, temple in Dilmun, 279, 14:19.
E-šamah, temple of Ninurta, 328, 7; see BL. p. 135.
E-šarra, 303, 16.
Ninurta is son of E-šár-ra, BL. No. 9, 8.
Mythological chamber in Ekur, SBP. 221 n. 7.
Ištar weeps for E-šár-e, KL., 123, Obv. II 2.
Ešnunak (city), 304, 27.
E-šumera, temple of Ninurta in Nippur, 328, 6; 342, 13.
E-temenanki, stage tower in Babylon, 301.
E-zida, temple of Nebo, 301.
gannu-tur, vessel, symbol of a deity, 336, 3.
gepar, dark chamber, 270, 24; 271; 272.
geštinanna (goddess), 304.
Gibil, firegod, 339, 11; 305, 16.
gidugga, reed, 338, 6.
Girra, firegod, 337, 9.
gišburru, a wood, symbol of firegod, 337, 9.
gisgigal, antiphon, 251, 24; 254, 23; 283, 26; 284, 10.
Gišzida (god), 287, 7.
gold, symbol of sun, 337, 11.
gudede, title of Ninlil, 303, 12.
Gula (goddess), consort of Tammuz, 285.
Gunura, title of mother goddess, 288, 5; 306, 27 = SBP. 160, 13.
Guškinbanda, title of Ea, 305, 9.
gypsum, symbol of Ninurta, 339.
Hallab (city), 275; 276.
Historical poems, 242.
Ibi-Sin, king of Ur, 281.
Id (deity), river god or goddess, 294; 297; 340.
Igibalag (deity), 339, 13.
Immer (god), 260; 262; 306; 339, 7.
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