The plaque is BM 116731, housed at British Museum; the tablet is Ni. 9602, housed at İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri. An edition of the text, often cited as "Inana and Dumuzi P," can be found in Yitschak Sefati (1998), Love Songs in Sumerian Literature: 219-235. - ThreadSky

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aandeloucas.com • 8 days ago

The plaque is BM 116731, housed at British Museum; the tablet is Ni. 9602, housed at İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri. An edition of the text, often cited as "Inana and Dumuzi P," can be found in Yitschak Sefati (1998), Love Songs in Sumerian Literature: 219-235.

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drauk.bsky.social•8 days ago

Is there a known rough century for this?

aandeloucas.com•8 days ago

The plaque is from Ur, the tablet from Nippur, and they both are dated to the Old Babylonian period (~2000-1700 BCE).

drauk.bsky.social•8 days ago

So that's somewhat earlier than the composition of the story of Enkidu and Shamhat, which is fairly X-rated, continuing for many days, but narrated from the male point of view if I remember correctly.
The lines here seem to be from the female point of view.
I wonder if this indicates a social shift.

aandeloucas.com•8 days ago

We have a contemporaneous account of the Enkidu and Shamhat sex-fest in CBS 7771, also from Old Babylonian Nippur; I'm not sure if we can fairly claim it as more or less X-rated. The shift in perspective is certainly interesting, but I wouldn't say it indicates a social shift.

mirey.bsky.social•8 days ago

thank you! 🙏 I might email you about other plowing texts if you know of any :)

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