A shir-namshub

[moksha]

I assume this is the right place for this topic, move it if necessary. I have done a search but couldn't find any information on who or what a "shir-namshub" is. Does anyone know?

I am referring in particular to this:

www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/section4/c4079.htm

Also, does anyone know who originally wrote the above? Any help greatly appreciated.

[sheshki]

The only information i found there is below.
But maybe uve seen this already.

A shir-namshub to Inana (Inana I): bibliography
Print sources used

Cohen, Marc E., "The Incantation-Hymn: Incantation or Hymn?", Journal of the American Oriental Society 95 (1975), 592-611: 605-609: score transliteration, translation, commentary
Electronic sources used

Electronic legacy material kindly supplied by:
Krecher, Joachim and Behrens, H., (LIT1.TXT, 1996: composite text, translation)
Cuneiform sources
BM 85201 (CT 42 22)

...here a quote from chat
dvldeedz: BM = British Museum. As for the other one
dvldeedz: CT = Cuneiform Texts in the Babylonian Collection, also the British Museum I believe
dvldeedz: So BM 85201 is the tablet number
dvldeedz: CT 42 22, is the book that text was published in

So it looks like a shir-namshub is an incantation-hymn.

[moksha]

Jan 8, 2009 18:42:03 GMT -5 sheshki said:

So it looks like a shir-namshub is an incantation-hymn.

Excellent, thanks, I was thinking that too. As to what kind of hymn it is, I'm not sure. There seems to be more than one kind such as balbales, tigis and kungars among others. Source.

[scribeofnisaba]

Yes, it's a type of hymn. No-one I know is entirely clear what it was for, either!

[galzugaltumu]

The classification of such §ir3 "song"s is very difficult, because the texts whose colophons mention those types of songs are sometimes structurally very different.

galzugaltumu