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Kramer, Ur Excavation Texts VI ( London, 1968) sub No. 1.
"Enki and Sumer: The Organization of the Earth and
Its Cultural Processes" (pages 59 - 62 ). When Sumerian
Mythology was first published, only eight pieces inscribed with
various parts of the myth were available. Since then quite
a number of new fragments have been identified, notably one
large piece in the Hilprecht Sammlung of the Friedrich-
Schiller University of Jena that was found to join a large
fragment in the University Museum in Philadelphia; the
tablet formed by joining these two pieces contains almost
the entire composition and makes possible the correct placing
of all the other fragments. As a result the text is now well-
nigh complete; a partial translation will be found in The
Sumerians (pages 171-183) ; a definitive edition of the com-
position is now available in a dissertation by Carlos Benito,
in the Department of Oriental Studies of the University of
Pennsylvania ( 1970).
"Enki and Eridu: The Journey of the Water-god to
Nippur" (pages 62 - 63 ). The detailed sketch of this mytho-
logical hymn glorifying Enki and his "sea-house" is quite
correct. But there are now available three times as many
pieces inscribed with the composition than when this book was
published, and a fuller and much improved version will be
found in the definitive edition prepared by A. A. Al-Fouadi
as a dissertation in the Department of Oriental Studies of the
University of Pennsylvania ( 1969).
"Inanna and Enki: The Transfer of the Arts of Civili-
zation from Eridu to Erech" (pages 64 - 68 ). The detailed
sketch of this "anthropological" myth is still quite valid, and
very little new material has been unearthed to date. However,
a thorough study of the composition has now been prepared
by Gertrude Flügge as a dissertation at the Ludwig-
Maximilians-Universität zu München ( 1971), and one of the
most important results of that study is a much fuller restora-
tion and interpretation of the me, the universal norms or laws
that control the universe, described here on p. 66.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C. Contributors: Samuel Noah Kramer - author. Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press. Place of Publication: Philadelphia. Publication Year: 1972. Page Number: xix.
    
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