In Praise of Leaders

Praise Poem of Shulgi (c. 2100 BC) from The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

The Annals of Sargon king of Assyria (722–705 B.C.), successor to Shalmaneser V. He completed Shalmaneser’s siege of Samaria in 721 B.C., thus destroying the northern Israelite kingdom forever. In 720 he defeated a coalition of enemies at Raphia. He captured Carchemish, subdued Babylonia, and advanced eastward to Kurdistan. He founded the last great Assyrian dynasty. Excavations of his palace at Dur Sharrukin (Khorsabad) have uncovered his personal annals, in which he recorded in detail his destruction of Samaria. His name appears also as Sharrukin. excerpted from "Great Inscription in the Palace of Khorsabad," Julius Oppert, tr., in Records of the Past.

Creation Accounts

The Revolt of Heaven, (The Assyrian View of the Creation of Humanity) translated by H. Fox Talbot, in Records of the Past, being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments, vol. 7.

Chaldaean Account of the Deluge, translated by W. Muss-Arnolt, in The Library of Original Sources.

Enuma Elish The Seven Tablets of Creation translated by  E. A. Speiser. 2nd Millennium BC

Babylonian Account of Creation, translated by W. Muss-Arnolt, a different translation of Enuma Elish.

Enuma Elish The Seven Tablets of Creation, translated by L.W. King yet another translation

Sumerian Goddess Inana attacks a Mountain Range Ebih from The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature

Law Codes

The Code of Hammurabi, translated by L. W. King (Babylonia c.1780 BCE}

The Code of the Assura,  from the Ancient Sourcebook. (Assyrian c. 1075 BCE)

Commentary

Herodotus on Babylon translated by George Rawlinson

Sumerian Writing

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