Astral Mythology and Iconography

Astral Mythology

Sayce, Archibald Henry, “Accadian Hymn to Istar”, in: A.H. Sayce (ed.), Records of the Past, Being English Translations of the Ancient Monuments of Egypt and Western Asia (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons Ltd., 1875), vol. 5, pp. 155-160 [??? link] – based on the cuneiform tablet S. 954.

Lenormant, François, “Chaldaean Hymns to the Sun”, in: A.H. Sayce (ed.), Records of the Past, Being English Translations of the Ancient Monuments of Egypt and Western Asia (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons Ltd., 1878), vol. 11, pp. 119-128 [??? link].

Lenormant, François, “Hymne au soleil, à texte primitif accadien, avec version assyrienne”, Journal asiatique, ou recueil de mémoires, d’extraits et de notices relatifs à l’histoire, à la philosophie, aux langues et à la littérature des peuples orientaux, sér. 7, 12 (1878), 378-434 [Gallica link]; 13 (1879), 5-98 [Gallica link] & 14 (1879), 264-265 [Gallica link] – based on the cuneiform tablet K. 256.

Bertin, George, “Analyse d’un hymne au soleil couchant”, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 1 (1886), 157-161 (*) – based on the cuneiform tablet Sp. 111 [= BM 33328+36041].

Jensen, Peter Christian Albrecht, “Hymnen auf das Wiedererscheinen der drei grossen Lichtgötter”, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 2 (1887), 76-94 & 191-204.

Warren, William F., “Gates of Sunrise in Ancient Babylonian Art”, The Babylonian & Oriental Record: A Monthly Magazine of the Antiquities of the East, 3 (1888/89), 241-244 (*).

Brünnow, Rudolph Ernst, “Assyrian Hymns”, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 4 (1889), 1-40 [includes a hymn to Šamaš].

Bertin, George, “Akkadian Hymn to the Setting Sun”, in: A.H. Sayce (ed.), Records of the Past, Being English Translations of the Ancient Monuments of Egypt and Western Asia (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons Ltd., 1889), New Series, vol. 2, pp. 190-193 [??? link].

Sayce, Archibald Henry, “Two Hymns to the Sun-God”, in: A.H. Sayce (ed.), Records of the Past, Being English Translations of the Ancient Monuments of Egypt and Western Asia (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons Ltd., 1890), New Series, vol. 4, pp. ix-x [??? link] – based on the cuneiform tablet K 4668.

Zimmern, Heinrich, “Der Jakobssegen und der Tierkreis”, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 7 (1892), 161-172.

Knudtzon, Jörgen Alexander, Assyrische Gebete an den Sonnengott für Staat und königliches Haus aus der Zeit Asarhaddons und Assurbanipals (Leipzig: Verlag von Eduard Pfeiffer, 1893), 2 vols.

Barton, George A., “The Semitic Istar Cult”, Hebraica, 9 (1893), 131-165 [JSTOR link] & 10 (1893/94), 1-74 [JSTOR link].

Legge, F., “The Names of the Planets in the “Pistis Sophia” ”, The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science and Art, 46 (1894), 309 [nr. 1172] [Periodicals Archive Online link] – claims that the planetary names in the Pistis Sophia are of Sumerian origin.

Craig, James Alexander, “An Assyrian Incantation to the God Sin (Cir. 650 B.C.)”, Hebraica, 11 (1894/95), 101-109 [JSTOR link].

Brown Jr., Robert, “The God Tartak”, The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science and Art, 48 (1895), 56-57 [nr. 1211] [Periodicals Archive Online link] – proposes a stellar identification for the Avvite god Tartak mentioned in the Hebrew Old Testament (2 Kings 17:31).

Stucken, Eduard, Astralmythen: Religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen (Leipzig: Verlag von Eduard Pfeiffer, 1896/1907) – consists of 5 parts published between 1896 and 1907.

Ward, William Hayes, “On the Representation of the Solar Disk”, American Journal of Theology, 2 (1898), 115-118 (*).

Scheil, Vincent Jean, “Le dieu-roi Bur-Sin-Planète”, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 12 (1898), 265-??? (*).

Jastrow Jr., Morris, “Nebopolassar and the Temple to the Sun-God at Sippar”, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, 15 (1899), 65-86 [JSTOR link].

Gray, Clifton Daggett, “A Hymn to Šamaš”, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, 17 (1901), 129-145 [JSTOR link].

Gray, Clifton Daggett, “Some Unpublished Religious Texts of Šamaš”, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, 17 (1901), 222-243 [JSTOR link].

Kugler, Franz Xaver, “Die Sternenfahrt des Gilgamesch: Kosmologische Würdigung des babylonischen Nationalepos”, Stimmen aus Maria-Laach, 66 (1904), 432-449 & 547-561.

Jensen, Peter Christian Albrecht, Das Gilgamesch-Epos in der Weltliteratur: Erster Band (Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner Verlag, 1906) – volume 2 was published in 1929.

Jastrow Jr., Morris, “Sign and Name for Planet in Babylonian”, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 47 (19??), 155-???.

Combe, Et., Histoire du culte de Sin en Babylonie et en Assyrie (Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1908) – review in: The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, 26 (1910), 309-311 [I.M. Price] [JSTOR link].

Jastrow Jr., Morris, “Dil-Bat”, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 22 (1909), 155-165 – discusses Kugler’s work on the identification of the five planets with gods of the Babylonian pantheon.

Jastrow Jr., Morris, “Sun and Saturn”, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 7 (1909/10), 163-178.

Langdon, Stephen Herbert, “Deux fragments d’hymnes à Šamaš”, Babyloniaca: Études de philologie assyro-babylonienne, 3 (1910), 75-78 [UMDL link] – based on two tablets in the Musée de Constantinople.

Meek, Theophile James, “A Hymn to Ishtar, K. 1286”, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, 26 (1910), 156-161 [JSTOR link].

Jastrow Jr., Morris, “Signs and Names of the Planet Mars”, The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, 27 (1910), 64-83 [JSTOR link].

Weidner, Ernst Friedrich, “Zur babylonischen Astronomie: VII. Ein neuer Kommentar zu den Ašme- und Šamaštexten”, Babyloniaca: Études de philologie assyro-babylonienne, 6 (1912), 98-105 [UMDL link] [erratum, ibid., 235 [UMDL link]] – discusses Sm. 2074.

Schollmeyer, P. Anastasius, Sumerisch-babylonische Hymnen und Gebete an Samas (Paderborn: ???, 1912) – review in: The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, 29 (1913), 211-216 [S.H. Langdon] [JSTOR link].

Deimel, Anton, Panara, Remeo, Patsch, Joseph & Schneider, Nicholaus, Pantheon Babylonicum: Nomina deorum e textibus cuneiformibus excerpta et ordine alphabetico distributa (Rome: Sumptibus Pontificii Instituti Biblici, 1914) [ETANA link] – reviews in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 18 (1915), 80-83 [W. Förtsch]; The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, 31 (1915), 288-289 [T.J. Meek] [JSTOR link].

Langdon, Stephen Herbert, “A Fragment of a Series of Ritualistic Prayers to Astral Deities in the Ceremonies of Divination”, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 12 (1915), 189-192.

Langdon, Stephen Herbert, “Hymn concerning the Cohabitation of the Earth God and the Earth Goddess: The Begetting of the Moon God”, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 19 (1922), 67-77.

Landsberger, Benno, “Ein astralmythologischer Kommentar aus der Spätzeit babylonischer Gelehrsamkeit”, Archiv für Keilschriftforschung, 1 (1923), 43-48.

Weidner, Ernst Friedrich, “Das Paradies am Sternenhimmel”, Archiv für Keilschriftforschung, 2 (1924/25), 124-130.

Langdon, Stephen Herbert, “Philological Note on nalbaš šamê = Ishtar”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ?? (1925), 717-718 (*).

Ungnad, Arthur, “Die Paradiesbäume”, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 79 (1925), 111-118 [addenda in ibid., 80 (1926), 201].

Kugler, Franz Xaver, Sybillinischer Sternkampf und Phaëton in naturgeschichtlicher Beleuchtung (Münster in Westfalen: Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1927 [= Aschendorffs zeitgemässe Schriften, nr. 17]) – reviews in: Gnomon: Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft, 4 (1928), 449-??? [W. Gundel]; Ephemerides theologicae lovanienses: Commentarii de re theologica et canonica, 5 (1928), 466-??? [J. Coppens]; Isis: International Review devoted to the History of Science and its Civilisation, 12 (1929), 156-157 [H.G. Bévenot] [JSTOR link]; The Journal of Theological Studies, 33 (1932), 77-?? [A.D. Nock] [Periodicals Archive Online link].

Jensen, Peter Christian Albrecht, Das Gilgamesch-Epos in der Weltliteratur: Zweiter Band (Marburg a. L.: Adolf Ebel Verlag, 1929 [inside cover states 1928]) – volume 1 was published in 1906.

Douglas Van Buren, Elisabeth, “Entwined Serpents”, Archiv für Orientforschung, 10 (1935), 58-59 (*).

Schott, Albert, “Marduk und sein Stern”, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 41 (1936), 124-146 (*).

Douglas Van Buren, Elisabeth, “The Scorpion in Mesopotamian Art and Religion”, Archiv für Orientforschung, 12 (1937/39), 1-28.

Douglas Van Buren, Elisabeth, “Symbols of the Gods in Mesopotamian Art”, Analecta Orientalia, 23 (1945), 60-64.

Lewy, J., “The Late Assyro-Babylonian Cult of the Moon and its Culmination at the Time of Nabonidus”, Hebrew Union College Annual, 19 (1946), 405-489 (*).

Oppenheim, Adolf Leo, “The Golden Garments of the Gods”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 8 (1949), 172-193 [JSTOR link] – mentions garments decorated with stars for statues of gods.

Barrelet, Marie-Thérèse, “Taureaux et symbolique solaire”, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 48 (1954), 16-27.

Amiet, Pierre, “Problèmes d’iconographie mésopotamienne (II): Déesse nue et déesse ailée”, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 48 (1954), 32-36.

Douglas Van Buren, Elisabeth, “The Sun-God Rising”, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 49 (1955), 1-14>.

Douglas Van Buren, Elisabeth, “A Proposed Interpretation of a Seal found at Ur”, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 49 (1955), 97-98.

Amiet, Pierre, “Le symbolisme cosmique du répertoire animalier en Mésopotamie”, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 50 (1956), 113-126.

von Soden, Wolfram & Weidner, Ernst Friedrich, “aqrabu und našru”, Archiv für Orientforschung, 18 (1957/58), 393-394.

Falkenstein, Adam, “Ein sumerischer Brief an den Mondgott”, Analecta Biblica, 12 (1959), 69-?? (*).

Sjöberg, Åke W., Der Mondgott Nanna-Suen in der sumerischen Überlieferung, 1. Teil: Texte (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1960) – review in: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, 55 [= Neue Folge, 21] (1962), 265-269 [D.O. Edzard]..

Lambert, Wilfred George, “A New Fragment from a List of Antediluvian Kings and Marduk’s Chariot”, in: M.A. Beek, A.A. Kampman, C. Nijland & J. Ryckmans (eds.), Symbolae Biblicae et Mesopotamicae Francisco Mario Theodoro de Liagre Böhl dedicatae (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1973 [= Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten: Studia Francisci Scholten Memoriae Dicata, nr. 4]), pp. 271-280.

Alster, Bendt, “On the Interpretation of the Sumerian Myth “Inanna and Enki” ”, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, 64 (1974), 20-34.

Alster, Bendt, “The Paradigmatic Character of Mesopotamian Heroes”, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 68 (1974), 49-60.

Alster, Bendt, “Early Patterns in Mesopotamian Literature”, in: B.L. Eichler (ed.), Kramer Anniversary Volume: Cuneiform Studies in Honor of Samuel Noah Kramer (Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker, etc., 1976 [= Veröffentlichungen zur Kultur und Geschichte des Alten Orients und des Alten Testaments, nr. 25]), pp. 13-24.

Azarpay, G. & Kilmer, A.D., “The Eclipse Dragon on an Arabic Frontispiece-Miniature [With a Note on the Babylonian Mythological Explanation of the Lunar Eclipse]”, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 98 (1978), 363-374 [JSTOR link].

Healey, J.F., “The Sun Deity and the Underworld: Mesopotamia and Ugarit”, in: B. Alster (ed.), Death in Mesopotamia: Papers read at the XXVIe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1980 [= Mesopotamia: Copenhagen Studies in Assyriology, nr. 8]), pp. 239-242.

Diba, Pouran, “Le vision cosmique d’un Mannéen”, in: H. Hirsch & H. Hunger (eds.), Vorträge gehalten auf der 28. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Wien, 6.-10. Juli 1981 (Horn: Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Söhne Gesellschaft, 1982 [= Archiv für Orientforschung, Beiheft 19]), pp. 284-288.

Heimpel, Wolfgang, “A Catalogue of Near Eastern Venus Deities”, Syro-Mesopotamian Studies, 4 (1982), nr. 3, 9-22 (*).

Papke, Werner, “Die Geburt Enkidu’s und Gilgamesch’s erster Traum”, in: H. Hirsch & H. Hunger (eds.), Vorträge gehalten auf der 28. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Wien, 6.-10. Juli 1981 (Horn: Verlag Ferdinand Berger & Söhne Gesellschaft, 1982 [= Archiv für Orientforschung, Beiheft 19]), pp. 289-294.

Walker, Christopher B.F., “The Myth of Girra and Elamatum”, Anatolian Studies, 33 (1983), 145-152 (*).

Hall, Mark Glenn, A Study of the Sumerian Moon God Nanna/Suen (Philadelphia: PhD dissertation University of Pennsylvania, 1985).

Heimpel, W., “The Sun at Night and the Doors of Heaven in Babylonian Texts”, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 38 (1986), 131-132 (*).

Hall, Mark Glenn, “A Hymn to the Moon-God, Nanna”, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 38 (1986), 152-166 (*).

Bruschweiler, Françoise, Inanna: la déesse triomphante et vaincue dans la cosmologie sumérienne: Recherche lexicographique (Louvain: Éditions Peeters, 1987 [= Les cahiers du CEPOA, nr. 4)]).

Papke, Werner, Die Sterne von Babylon: Die geheime Botschaft des Gilgamesch nach 4000 Jahren entschlüsselt (Bergisch Gladbach: Gustav Lübbe Verlag, 1989) – reprinted as Die geheime Botschaft des Gilgamesch: 4000 Jahre alte astronomische Aufzeichnungen entschlüsselt (Augsburg: Weltbild Verlag, 1993).

Waetzoldt, Hartmut, “[Sumerian Moon God]”, Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires (N.A.B.U.) (1990), nr. 95 [pp. ??-??] (*).

Collon, Dominique, “The Near Eastern Moon God”, in: D.J.W. Meijer (ed.), Natural Phenomena: Their Meaning, Depiction and Description in the Ancient Near East: Proceeding of the Colloquium, Amsterdam, 6-8 July 1989 (Amsterdam [etc.]: North-Holland, 1992 [= Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen: Afd. Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, nr. 152]), pp. 19-37.

Stol, Marten, “The Moon as seen by the Babylonians”, in: D.J.W. Meijer (ed.), Natural Phenomena: Their Meaning, Depiction and Description in the Ancient Near East: Proceeding of the Colloquium, Amsterdam, 6-8 July 1989 (Amsterdam [etc.]: North-Holland, 1992 [= Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen: Afd. Letterkunde, Nieuwe Reeks, nr. 152]), pp. 245-277.

Szarzy’nska, Krystyna, “Offerings for the Goddess Innana in Archaic Uruk”, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 87 (1993), 7-28 – reprinted in: K. Szarzy’nska, Sumerica: Prace sumeroznawcze (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Akad. Dialog, 1997 [= Philologia Orientalis, nr. 3]), pp. ???-??? (*).

Braun-Holzinger, E.A., “Die Ikonographie des Mondgottes in der Glyphik des III. Jahrtausends v.Chr.”, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, 83 (1993), 119-135.

Cavigneaux, Antoine & Al-Rawi, Farouk N.H., “Gilgameš et Taureau de Ciel (šul-mè-kam) (Textes de Tell Haddad IV)”, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 87 (1993), 97-129.

Collon, Dominique, “Moon, Boats and Battle”, in: I.L. Finkel & M.J. Geller (eds.), Sumerian Gods and their Representations (Groningen: Styx Publications, 1997 [= Cuneiform Monographs, nr. 7]), pp. 11-17 (*).

Colbow, G., “More Insights into Representations of the Moon God in the Third and Second Millennium B.C.”, in: I.L. Finkel & M.J. Geller (eds.), Sumerian Gods and their Representations (Groningen: Styx Publications, 1997 [= Cuneiform Monographs, nr. 7]), pp. 19-31 (*).

Groneberg, Brigitte R.M., Lob der Ištar: Gebet und Ritual an die altbabylonische Venusgöttin Tanatti Ištar (Groningen: Styx Publications, 1997 [= Cuneiform Monographs, nr. 8]).

Reynolds, Frances, “Unpropitious Titles of Mars in Mesopotamian Scholarly Tradition”, in: J. Prosecký (ed.), Intellectual Life of the Ancient Near East: Papers Presented at the 43rd Rencontre assyriologique internationale, Prague, July 1-5, 1996 (Prague: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic/Oriental Institute, 1998), pp. 347-358 (*).

Kurtik, G.E., “The Identification of Inanna with the Planet Venus: A Criterion for the Time Determination of the Recognition of Constellations in Ancient Mesopotamia”, Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions: The Journal of the Eurasian Astronomical Society, 17 (1998), 501-513 [ADS link].

van Dijk, J.A.A., “Inanna raubt den “grossen Himmel”: Ein mythos”, in: S.M. Maul (ed.), Festschrift für Rykle Borger zu seinem 65. Geburtstag am 24. Mai 1994: tikip santakki mala bašmu (Groningen: Styx Publications, 1998 [= Cuneiform Monographs, nr. 10]), pp. 9-38 (*).

Beaulieu, Paul-Alain, “The Babylonian Man in the Moon”, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 51 (1999), 91-99 [JSTOR link].

Hallo, William W., “More Incantations and Rituals from the Yale Babylonian Collection”, in: T. Abusch & K. van der Toorn (eds.), Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical, and Interpretative Perspectives (Groningen: Styx Publications, 1999 [= Ancient Magic and Divination, nr. 1]), pp. 275-289 – includes an edition of an Neo-Babylonian incantation text (YBC 9863) mentioning several constellations and shooting stars.

Soltysiak, Arkadiusz, “The Tree of Life and the Serpent of Truth: Celestial Location and Astronomical Significance of the Paradise”, in: A. Lebauf, M.S. Ziólkowski & A. Soltysiak (eds.), Actes de la Vième conférence annuelle de la SEAC, Gdansk, 5-8 Septembre 1997 (Warsaw/Gdansk: ???, 1999 [= SWIATOWIT, Supplement Series H: Anthropology, nr. 2]), pp. 41-67 (*).

Soltysiak, Arkadiusz, “Adapa, Etana and Gilgameš: Three Sumerian Rulers among the Constellations”, in: C. Esteban & J.A. Belmonte (eds.), Oxford VI and SEAC 1999: Astronomy and Cultural Diversity (Santa Cruz de Tenerife: ???, 1999), pp. 289-293 (*).

Roaf, Michael & Zgoll, Annette, “Assyrian Astroglyphs: Lord Aberdeen’s Black Stone and the Prisms of Esarhaddon”, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, 91 (2001), 264-295 [or 293 - check].

Fischer, Claudia, “Twilight of the Sun-God”, Iraq, 64 (2002), 125-134.

Soltysiak, Arkadiusz, “The Bull of Heaven in Mesopotamian Sources”, Culture and Cosmos, 5 (2002), 3-22.

Soltysiak, Arkadiusz, “Betrayed Lovers of Ištar: A Possible Trace of the 8-Year Venus Cycle in Gilgameš VI:i-iii”, in: M. Blomberg, P.E. Blomberg & G. Henrikson (eds.), Calendars, Symbols, and Orientations: Legacies of Astronomy in Culture: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC), Stockholm, 27-30 August 2001 (Uppsala: Universitetstryckeriet, 2003 [= Uppsala Astronomical Observatory Reports, nr. 59]), pp. 101-106.

Laffitte, Roland, “Sur l’origine de la constellation de la Vierge”, Journal asiatique, 292 (2004), 63-73.

Astronomical Symbols on Entitlement Narûs (kudurru's)

Jastrow Jr., Morris, “On the Assyrian Kuduru and the Ring of the Sun-God in the Abu-Habba Tablet”, Proceedings of the American Oriental Society (Oct. 1888), xcv-xcviii (*).

Belser, Carl Wilhelm, “Babylonische Kudurru-Inschriften”, Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft, 2 (1891), 165-203.

Frank, Karl, “Bilder und Symbole babylonisch-assyrischer Götter”, Leipziger Semitische Studien, 2, nr. 2 (1906), 1-44 – reprinted in 1968 by Zentralantiquariat der DDR (Leipzig,).

Hinke, William John, A New Boundary Stone of Nebuchadrezzar I. from Nippur, with a Concordance of Proper Names and a Glossary of the Kudurru Inscriptions thus far published (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1907 [= The Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania, Series D: Researches and Treatises, nr. IV]) [MOA link; ETANA link].

Hinke, William John, Selected Babylonian Kudurru Inscriptions (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1911 [= Semitic Study Series, nr. 14]).

King, Leonard William, Babylonian Boundary-Stones and Memorial-Tablets in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1912), 2 vols. – reprinted in 1978(?) by AMS (???) – review in: The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, 29 (1913), 216-225 [W.J. Hinke] [JSTOR link].

Text [ETANA link].
Plates [ETANA link].

Steinmetzer, Franz Xaver, Die babylonischen Kudurru (Grenzsteine) als Urkundenform (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, 1922 [= Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums, 11. Band, Heft 4/5]) – reprinted 1968 by Johnson Reprint (New York).

Seidl, Ursula, “Die babylonischen Kudurru-Reliefs: Symbole mesopotamischer Gottheiten”, Baghdader Mitteilungen: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Baghdad, 4 (1968 [1969]), 7-220 – updated edition reprinted in 1989 by Universitätsverlag/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Freiburg/Göttingen) in the series Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis [nr. 87] – reviews in: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiastische Archäologie, 79 (1989), 301-302 [B. Hrouda]; Die Welt des Orients: Wissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Kunde des Morgenlandes, 22 (1991), 142-144 [Th. Podella].

Sommerfeld, Walter, “Die mittelbabylonische Grenssteinurkunde IM 5527”, Ugarit-Forschungen: Internationales Jahrbuch für die Altertumskunde Syrien-Palästinas, 16 (1982), 299-306 (*).

Cullens, Lynn & Tuman, Vladimir S., “Immortality etched in Stone: Dating Ancient Mesopotamian Stones from Astronomical Symbols”, Griffith Observer, 50 (1986), nr. 1, 10-19 (*).

Tuman, Vladimir S. & Hoffman, R., “Rediscovering the Past: Application of Computers to the Astronomical Dating of Kudurrus”, Nineveh, 9 (1986), nr. 1, 11-23 (*).

Tuman, Vladimir S., “The Summer Solstice Festival, June 22nd, 1203 B.C.”, Griffith Observer, 52 (1988), nr. 5, 13-19 (*).

Tuman, Vladimir S., “Astronomical Dating of the Kudurru IM/80908”, Sumer: A Journal of Archaeology and History in Arab World, 46 (1989/90), 98-106.

Koch, Ulla, Schaper, Joachim, Fischer, Susanne & Wegelin, Michael, “Eine neue Interpretation der Kudurru-Symbole”, Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 41 (1990/91), 93-114 [SpringerLink].

Tuman, Vladimir S., “Astronomical Dating of the Nebuchadnezzar Kudurru found in February, 1896”, in: M. de Jong Ellis (ed.), Nippur at the Centennial: Papers read at the 35e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Philadelphia, 1988 (Philadelphia: University Museum, 1992 [= Occasional Papers of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund, nr. 14]), pp. 281-290.

Tuman, Vladimir S. & Hoffman, Robert, “Rediscovering the Past: Application of Computers to the Astronomical Dating of Kudurru SB22 of the Louvre Museum”, Archaeoastronomy: Journal of the Center for Archaeoastronomy, 10 (1987/88 [1992]), 124-138.

Slanski, Kathryn Elizabeth, “Classification, Historiography and Monumental Authority: The Babylonian Entitlement narûs (kudurrus)”, Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 52 (2000), 95-114 [ASOR link].

Iwaniszewski, Stanislaw, “Archaeoastronomical Analysis of Assyrian and Babylonian Monuments: Methodological Issues”, Journal for the History of Astronomy, 34 (2003), 79-93 [ADS link].

Slanski, Kathryn Elizabeth, Babylonian Entitlement Narûs (Kudurrus): A Study in Their Form and Function (Boston: American Schools of Oriental Research, 2003 [= American Schools of Oriental Research Books, nr. 9]).

Slanski, Kathryn Elizabeth, “Representation of the Divine on the Babylonian Entitlement Monuments (kudurrus): Part I. Divine Symbols”, Archiv für Orientforschung, 50 (2003/04), 308-323.