Excerpt from Some Sumerian-Babylonian Hymns of the Berlin Collection: Transcribed and Interpreted, With Collation of the Original Tablets, From the Text Published by George Reisner In the following pages brackets are used to indicate that the tablet is broken; dots, that the signs are too indistinct to be read. The metrical form and division into stanzas is indicated in the translation by the spacing. I desire gratefully to acknowledge my indebtedness to Professor Heinrich Zimmern in calling my attention to these series of hymns, and for invaluable aid and advice in many particulars during the preparation of this thesis; and to Professor George A. Barton for helpful suggestions and criticisms. Thanks are also due the Officers of the Royal Museum in Berlin for their courtesy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.