Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta is a legendary Sumerian account, preserved in early post-Sumerian copies, composed in the Neo-Sumerian period. It is one of a series of accounts describing the conflict
Fragment of a tablet with "Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta", c. 1900–1600 BC
Samuel Noah Kramer
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Samuel Noah Kramer was one of the world's leading Assyriologists, an expert in Sumerian history and Sumerian language. After high school, he attended Temple University, before Dropsie University and t
Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta
…gives a Sumerian account of the "confusion of tongues", and also involves Enmerkar constructing temples at Eridu and Uruk, it has, since the time of Samuel Kramer, been compared with the Tower of Babel narrative in the Book of Genesis. Near the beginning of the account, the following background is provided: "In…
Samuel Noah Kramer
The Lament for Ur at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The Lament was one of several literary works that Kramer studied.