The Penn Parsed Corpus of Sumerian

Nippur 55: The "Nippur Core Curriculum"

This is a list of texts which on various grounds are considered part of the core Nippur scribal corpus.

Nippur 55 Texts Currently in ETCSL

ETCSL #ETCSL name
1.1.3Enki and the world order
1.1.4Enki's journey to Nibru
1.2.1Enlil and Ninlil
1.2.2Enlil and Sud
1.3.2Inana and Ebih
1.3.3Inana and Šu-kale-tuda
1.3.4The tale of Gudam
1.4.1Inana's descent to the nether world
1.8.1.1Gilgameš and Aga
1.8.1.2Gilgameš and the bull of heaven
1.8.1.4Gilgameš, Enkidu and the nether world
1.8.1.5.1Gilgameš and Huwawa (Version B)
1.8.1.5Gilgameš and Huwawa (Version A)
1.8.2.1Lugalbanda in the mountain cave
1.8.2.2Lugalbanda and the Anzud bird
1.8.2.3Enmerkar and the lord of Aratta
1.8.2.4Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana
2.1.5The cursing of Agade
2.2.2The lament for Urim
2.2.3The lament for Sumer and Urim
2.2.4The lament for Nibru
2.4.2.01A praise poem of Šulgi (Šulgi A)
2.4.2.02A praise poem of Šulgi (Šulgi B)
2.5.5.1A praise poem of Lipit-Eštar (Lipit-Eštar A)
4.05.1Enlil in the E-kur (Enlil A)
4.07.2The exaltation of Inana (Inana B)
4.07.4A hymn to Inana as Ninegala (Inana D)
4.14.1A hymn to Nance (Nanše A)
4.14.3Nance and the birds (Nanše C)
4.28.1A hymn to Nungal (Nungal A)
4.80.1The temple hymns
4.80.2The Keš temple hymn
5.1.3The advice of a supervisor to a younger scribe (E-dub-ba C)
5.3.1The debate between Hoe and Plough
5.3.2The debate between Sheep and Grain
5.3.3The debate between Winter and Summer
5.3.5The debate between Bird and Fish
5.4.11A diatribe against Engar-dug (Diatribe B)
5.4.12He is a good seed of a dog (Diatribe C)
5.5.4The song of the hoe
5.6.1The instructions of Šuruppag
5.6.3The farmer's instructions
5.9.1The home of the fish
5.9.2The heron and the turtle

Additional Nippur 55 Texts

1. Išbi-Erra E
2. Tree and Reed Debate
3. EdA (Schooldays)
4. D1 (Dialogue between Two Scribes)
5. EdB (The Young Scribe and his Father)
6. D4 (Dialogue between two women)
7. EdD (Scribal Activities)
8. EdR (Edubba Regulations)
9. D2 (Dialogue between Enkihegal and Enkitalu)
10. D3 (Dialogue between Enkimansum and Girniisag)
11. Diatribe against Usani


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