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Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, part 58: Sumerian Literary Texts. By BENDT ALSTER and MARKHAM J. GELLER. London: BRITISH MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS, LTD., 1990. Pp. 28; 91 plates. £35.
The recovery and reconstruction of Sumerian literature continues apace, and in this process the British Museum and its vast holdings of cuneiform tablets have played a significant part with past publications such as CT 15, 36, 42, and 44. This tradition is here superbly carried forward by Bendt Alster and Markham Geller. They present hand-copies of eighty texts, many of them large and well preserved. The first fifty plates (texts 1-41) are the work of Alster, the last forty-one (texts 42-80) of Geller. The copyists have prepared introductory remarks to the texts, in some cases quite extensive, and both have provided an ongoing series of editions of the texts in a variety of publications. As far as these editions are not already listed in the introduction, or in W. H. Ph. Römer's review in BiOr 50 (1993): 166-73, they are noted in the remarks that follow.
No. 7. This myth was edited by S. N. Kramer, "A New Dumuzi Myth," RA 84 (1990): 143-49, as noted by Romer; but Alster discovered a syllabically written duplicate,...