“Signet of Steel”

Jaan PUHVEL

Makale detayları

“Signet of Steel”

Yazarlar:

Jaan PUHVEL

Yayıncı:

Ankara University

Dergi:

Archivum Anatolicum-Anadolu Arşivleri 1996 Vol.2 Issue 1, pp.61-66

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/1996

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000860833

Sıklık:

Aylık

pISSN:

1300-6355

Özet:

 

Ludingirra was a considerable Sumerian-Ianguage poet of Babylon,
 with a terminus ante quern in the reign of Hammurabi’s successor
 Samsuiluna, thus ca. 1700 b.c.e. He rates as the author of two dirges or
 elegies over the deaths of his father and wife respectively, which Kramer
 (1963: 208-217) discovered in (he Pushkin Museum in Moscow in 1957
 and subsequently edited. Ludingirra is also credited with a poem known
 (in Sa nagba imuru or Arma Virumque fashion) as Lii-kas^-e-lugal-la
 har-ra-an-na gin-na ‘Royal courier, begin the journey!’, preserved entire
 and edited from several tablet pieces by Civil (1964). The poet instructs
 the messenger to deliver greetings to his mother in Nippur, adding that “if
 you do not know my mother, I shall give you some signs”. Her name is
 Sat-Istar; instead of street directions Ludingirra then pours out in 42 lines
 an exaltation of his mother in extravagant poetic similes (grouped into
 five “signs”), concluding with a two-line clincher: “When, with the help
 of the signs I have given, you stand in her luminous presence, say to her:
 ‘Ludingirra your beloved son greets you’!”.

 

Ludingirra was a considerable Sumerian-Ianguage poet of Babylon,
 with a terminus ante quern in the reign of Hammurabi’s successor
 Samsuiluna, thus ca. 1700 b.c.e. He rates as the author of two dirges or
 elegies over the deaths of his father and wife respectively, which Kramer
 (1963: 208-217) discovered in (he Pushkin Museum in Moscow in 1957
 and subsequently edited. Ludingirra is also credited with a poem known
 (in Sa nagba imuru or Arma Virumque fashion) as Lii-kas^-e-lugal-la
 har-ra-an-na gin-na ‘Royal courier, begin the journey!’, preserved entire
 and edited from several tablet pieces by Civil (1964). The poet instructs
 the messenger to deliver greetings to his mother in Nippur, adding that “if
 you do not know my mother, I shall give you some signs”. Her name is
 Sat-Istar; instead of street directions Ludingirra then pours out in 42 lines
 an exaltation of his mother in extravagant poetic similes (grouped into
 five “signs”), concluding with a two-line clincher: “When, with the help
 of the signs I have given, you stand in her luminous presence, say to her:
 ‘Ludingirra your beloved son greets you’!”.

Makale detayları

“Signet of Steel”

Yazarlar: Jaan PUHVEL

Yayıncı: Ankara University

Dergi: Archivum Anatolicum-Anadolu Arşivleri 1996 Vol.2 Issue 1, pp.61-66

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/1996

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000860833

Sıklık: Aylık

pISSN: 1300-6355

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Jaan PUHVEL

Yayıncı:

Ankara University

Dergi:

Archivum Anatolicum-Anadolu Arşivleri 1996 Vol.2 Issue 1, pp.61-66

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/1996

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000860833

Sıklık:

Aylık

pISSN:

1300-6355