Ancient Mesopotamian Worship Texts


Location and Chronology

Map of Mesopotamia and Sumer
Detail Map of Mesopotamia

Mesopotamian Chronological Table: from University of Chicago Oriental Institute
 

Written Sources

Cuneiform tablets: Hymn to Nikkal, moon goddess of Ugarit [obverse] [c. 1500 BCE]
Cuneiform tablets: Hymn to Nikkal, moon goddess of Ugarit [reverse] [c. 1500 BCE]
Sketch of Cuneiform tablets [obverse] with some musical decoding
 

Oxford University: Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature [the best website for texts and translations of Sumerian hymns]

The Great Hymn to Shamash

Hymn to Ishtar

The Hymn to Ninkasi -- Making Beer

Psalm to Marduk

Endehuanna's Hymns to Innana

History Source Book: A Collection of Babylonian Prayers, c. 1600 BCE

 

Audiofiles

Richard Dumbrill: Hypothetical transcription of Hurrian Hymn H6
 
 

Studies

 

Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography for learning about Mesopotamian Religion