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Lu-diĝira

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The letter of Ludingirra to his mother. Terracotta tablet. From Nippur, Iraq. Circa 1700 BCE. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul

Lu-diĝira was a Sumerian nobleman and poet of Nippur who dedicated a love poem to his mother and two elegies to his father and wife. The eulogies with which he glorifies his mother have been compared to the Song of Songs.

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  • Meissner; et al. (2001). Reallexikon der Assyriologie - s.v. "Nippur". p. 538. ISBN 978-3-11-017296-6.
  • Çig, M, and Kramer, S.N., "The Ideal Mother: A Sumerian Portrait", Belleten 40 (1976), 413-421.
  • Civil, Miguel, "The 'Message of Lú-dingir-ra to His Mother' and a Group of Akkado-Hittite 'Proverbs'", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 23 (1964), 1-11.
  • Cooper, Jerrold S., "New Cuneiform Parallels to the Song of Songs", Journal of Biblical Literature 90 (1971), 157-162.
  • Nougayrol, Jean, "Textes Suméro-Accadiens des archives et bibliothéques privées d'Ugarit", Ugaritica 5 (1968), 1-446:.-
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