Lu-diĝira explained
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.
References
- Book: Meissner. etal. Reallexikon der Assyriologie - s.v. "Nippur". 2001. 978-3-11-017296-6. 538.
- 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:.-
External links
- translation, the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature