About Samuel Noah Kramer
Samuel Noah Kramer was one of the world's leading Assyriologists and an expert in Sumerian history.
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| person Full name | Samuel Noah Kramer |
| cake Date of birth | September 28, 1897 |
| event_busy Date of death | November 26, 1990 |
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| Name | Kramer, Samuel Noah |
| Dates (life) | 28 September 1897 - 26 November 1990 |
| Specialization | Assyriology |
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| 'Inanna's Descent to the Nether World' Continued and Revised. Second Part | ADDITIONAL MATERIAL TO « INANNA'S DESCENT TO THE NETHER WORLD » | Cuneiform Studies and the History of Literature: The Sumerian Sacred Marriage Texts | Ishtar in the Nether World According to a New Sumerian Text | |
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| 1951 | 1939 | 1963 | 1940 | |
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Cuneiformist profile
| Name | Kramer, Samuel Noah |
| Dates (life) | 28 September 1897 - 26 November 1990 |
| Birthplace | Zashkov, Ukraine |
| Specialization | Assyriology |
| Major works | The Sumerian Prefix Forms be- and bi- in the Time of the Earlier Princes of Lagas (AS 8), Chicago 1936 Gilgamesh and the Huluppu-Tree (AS 10), Chicago 1938 Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur (AS 12), Chicago 1940 Sumerian Literary Texts from Nippur, New Haven 1944 Sumerian Mythology, Philadelphia 1944 Enki and Ninhursag, New Haven 1945 Schooldays: A Sumerian Composition Relating to the Education of a Scribe, Philadelphia 1949 Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, Philadelphia 1952 From the Tablets of Sumer, Indian Hills CO 1956 History Begins at Sumer, New York 1959 The Sumerians, Chicago 1963 Sumerische Literarische Texte aus Nippur 1-2, Berlin 1961-1967 (with I. Bernhardt) Literary and Religious Texts (UET 6/1-2), London/Philadelpia 1963-1966 (with C.J. Gadd) The Sacred Marriage Rite, Bloomington IN, 1969 Sumerian Literary Tablets and Fragments in the Archeological Museum of Instanbul 2, Ankara 1976 Sumerian Literary Texts in the Ashmolean Museum (OECT 5), New York 1976 (with O. Gurney) Bibliography in: B.E. Eichler (ed.), Kramer Anniversary Volume (AOAT 25), Kevelaer/Neukirchen-Vluyn 1976, 451-461 J.M. Sasson (ed.), Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer (AOS 65), New Haven 1984, 352-353 |
| Remarks | Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1930 Associate curator of the Babylonian Section of the University Museum, Philadelphia, 1943-1948 Professor of Assyriology, University of Pennsylvania, 1948-1968 Autobiography in: J.M. Sasson (ed.), Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer (AOS 65), New Haven 1984, 337-351 |
| Obituaries | ASJ 13 (1991) v-vi (M. Civil) |
| Festschrift | B.E. Eichler (ed.), Kramer Anniversary Volume (AOAT 25), Kevelaer/Neukirchen-Vluyn 1976 J.M. Sasson (ed.), Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer (AOS 65), New Haven 1984 |
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====== Kramer, Samuel Noah ======
== Name ==
Kramer, Samuel Noah
== Dates ==
28 September 1897 - 26 November 1990
== Birthplace ==
Zashkov, Ukraine
== Specialization ==
Assyriology
== Major works ==
The Sumerian Prefix Forms be- and bi- in the Time of the Earlier Princes of Lagas (AS 8), Chicago 1936 Gilgamesh and the Huluppu-Tree (AS 10), Chicago 1938 Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur (AS 12), Chicago 1940 Sumerian Literary Texts from Nippur, New Haven 1944 Sumerian Mythology, Philadelphia 1944 Enki and Ninhursag, New Haven 1945 Schooldays: A Sumerian Composition Relating to the Education of a Scribe, Philadelphia 1949 Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, Philadelphia 1952 From the Tablets of Sumer, Indian Hills CO 1956 History Begins at Sumer, New York 1959 The Sumerians, Chicago 1963 Sumerische Literarische Texte aus Nippur 1-2, Berlin 1961-1967 (with I. Bernhardt) Literary and Religious Texts (UET 6/1-2), London/Philadelpia 1963-1966 (with C.J. Gadd) The Sacred Marriage Rite, Bloomington IN, 1969 Sumerian Literary Tablets and Fragments in the Archeological Museum of Instanbul 2, Ankara 1976 Sumerian Literary Texts in the Ashmolean Museum (OECT 5), New York 1976 (with O. Gurney) Bibliography in: B.E. Eichler (ed.), Kramer Anniversary Volume (AOAT 25), Kevelaer/Neukirchen-Vluyn 1976, 451-461 J.M. Sasson (ed.), Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer (AOS 65), New Haven 1984, 352-353
== Remarks ==
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1930 Associate curator of the Babylonian Section of the University Museum, Philadelphia, 1943-1948 Professor of Assyriology, University of Pennsylvania, 1948-1968 Autobiography in: J.M. Sasson (ed.), Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer (AOS 65), New Haven 1984, 337-351
== Obituaries ==
ASJ 13 (1991) v-vi (M. Civil)
== Festschrift ==
B.E. Eichler (ed.), Kramer Anniversary Volume (AOAT 25), Kevelaer/Neukirchen-Vluyn 1976 J.M. Sasson (ed.), Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer (AOS 65), New Haven 1984
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Bibliography
Dedović, Boban. "'Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld': A centennial survey of scholarship, artifacts, and translations." Undergraduate seminar paper. University of Maryland, College Park, 2019.
Eberhard, David M., Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig, eds. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 25th ed. Dallas, Texas: SIL International, 2022. Accessed August 20, 2022. https://www.ethnologue.com.
Gadd, Cyril J., and Samuel N. Kramer. Ur Excavations Texts VI.1: Literary and Religious Texts. First Part. London, England: British Museum Publications, 1963.
Gadd, Cyril J., and Samuel N. Kramer. Ur Excavations Texts VI.1: Literary and Religious Texts. Second Part. London, England: British Museum Publications, 1966.
Hammarström, Harald, Robert Forkel, Martin Haspelmath, and Sebastian Bank. "Glottolog: A Database of Languages." Leipzig, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Created 2011 [?]. Accessed August 23, 2022. https://glottolog.org.
Kramer, Samuel N. "'Inanna's Descent to the Nether World' Continued and Revised. Second Part" Journal of Cuneiform Studies 5, no. 1 (1951): 1–17.
Kramer, Samuel N. "'Inanna's Descent to the Nether World' Continued and Revised." Journal of Cuneiform Studies 4, no. 4 (1950): 199–214.
Kramer, Samuel N. "ADDITIONAL MATERIAL TO « INANNA'S DESCENT TO THE NETHER WORLD »." Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archéologie Orientale 36, no. 2 (1939): 68–80.
Kramer, Samuel N. "Cuneiform Studies and the History of Literature: The Sumerian Sacred Marriage Texts." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 107, no. 6 (December 1963): 485–527.
Kramer, Samuel N. "Inanna's Descent to the Nether World. The Sumerian Version of Ištar's Descent." Kramer, Samuel N., trans. "Inanna's Descent." Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archéologie Orientale 34, no. 3 (1937): 93–134.
Kramer, Samuel N. "The Descent of Inanna." In Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer, 51-89, edited by Diane Wolkstein. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1983.
Kramer, Samuel N. “Ishtar in the Nether World According to a New Sumerian Text.” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 79 (October, 1940): 18–27.
Kramer, Samuel N. “Sumerian Literature; A Preliminary Survey of the Oldest Literature in the World.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 85, no. 3 (February 1942): 293–323.
Kramer, Samuel N. Sumerian Literary Tablets and Fragments in The Archaeological Museum Of İstanbul - II. Turkey: Türk Tarih Kurumu Yayınları, 1976.
Kramer, Samuel N., trans. "[Artifact] YBC 4621." In "'Inanna's Descent to the Nether World' Continued and Revised," 199-202, authored by Samuel N. Kramer. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 4, no. 4 (1950): 199-214.
Kramer, Samuel N., trans. "CBS 9800 / Inanna's Descent." In "Inanna's Descent to the Nether World. The Sumerian Version of Ištar's Descent," 98-116, authored by Samuel N. Kramer. Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archéologie Orientale 34, no. 3 (1937): 93-134.
SIL International Contributors. "ISO 639-3 Registration Authority: International Standard for Language Codes." Dallas, TX: SIL International. Accessed August 23, 2022. https://iso639-3.sil.org.
SIL International Contributors. "ScriptSource: Index of Languages and Writing Systems." Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Created June 11, 2011. Accessed August 6, 2022. https://scriptsource.org.
Unicode Consortium Contributors. "ISO 15924 Registration Authority: Codes for the Representation of Names of Scripts." Mountain View, CA: The Unicode Consortium. Created 2004. Accessed August 24, 2022. https://unicode.org/iso15924.
Wolkstein, Diane, and Samuel N. Kramer. Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
