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Type: Book › Artifact render
ISBN: Unknown
Page count: 58
Language: Akkadian, English, Sumerian
Published: 1959
Publisher: London, England: The Trustees of the British Museum
Author: Hugo Heinrich Figulla
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Cuneiform Texts, Part XLII (CT 42) is an artifact publication on behalf of the British Museum. It contains fort-eight plates related to Sumerian hymns and Akkadian poems, alongside the Sumerian afterlife myth known as "Inanna's Descent."

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Sumerian religion refers to spiritual beliefs practiced from ca. 4500-1900 BCE in Mesopotamia, or modern-day southern Iraq. Many deities were diffused into other Mesopotamian cultures.

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Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld

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Akkadian

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Babylonian

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BM 17427

Clay Tablet

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Hugo Heinrich Figulla

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Hugo Heinrich Figulla was a Sumerologist.
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Figulla, Hugo H. Cuneiform Texts From Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum. Part XLVI. Vol 42. London, England: The Trustees of the British Museum, 1959.

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Anonymous creator, BM 17427, c. 1900–1600 BCE. Clay tablet. BM 17427, British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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