Acknowledgement and Preface
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Hymns, Genre, Schools, and Letters
1.1. Royal Hymns, Genre, and the Study of Sumerian Literature
1.2. Royal Hymns of the Ur III and Isin Dynasties
1.3. Sumerian Literary Letters as a Genre?
Chapter 2: The Larsa Court Literature, Part 1: "Songs of Praise"
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Gungunum
2.3. Sîn-iddinam
2.4. Sîn-iqis^am
2.5. Warad-Sîn
2.6. Rim-Sîn
2.7. The Larsa Praise Songs in Comparison with Those of the Ur III
and Isin Dynasties
Chapter 3: The Larsa Court Literature, Part 2: "Letters of Petition"
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Letters of Petition from Sîn-iddinam to Ninisina and Utu
3.3. Letters of Petition to Rim-Sîn
3.4. The "Royal Correspondence of Larsa"
Chapter 4: "Larsa Sumerian"
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Linguistic Change
4.3. The Language of the Larsa Court Literature
Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix 1. Sîn-iddinam A
Appendix 2. Sîn-iddinam B
Appendix 3. Sîn-iddinam C
Appendix 4. Sîn-iddinam to Ninisina
Appendix 5. Sîn-iddinam to Utu
Appendix 6 . Rim-Sîn A
Appendix 7. Rim-Sîn B
Appendix 8. Rim-Sîn C
Appendix 9. Rim-Sîn D
Appendix 10. Rim-Sîn E
Appendix 11. Rim-Sîn F
Appendix 12. Rim-Sîn G
Appendix 13. Rim-Sîn H
Appendix 14. Nins^atapada to Rim-Sîn
Appendix 15. Catatlogue of the Larsa Court Literature
Bibliography
Abbreviations
List of Plates
Indices
Plates