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The Sultantepe Tablets (Continued) IV. The Cuthaean Legend of Naram-Sin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

O. R. Gurney
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The peculiar document here studied is an example of what has been called the “narû literature”. A narû was an engraved stele, on which a king would record the events of his reign; the characteristic features of such an inscription are a formal self-introduction of the writer by his name and titles, a narrative in the first person, and an epilogue usually consisting of curses upon any person who might in the future deface the monument and blessings upon those who should honour it. The so-called “narû literature” consists of a small group of apocryphal narû-inscriptions, composed probably in the early second millennium B.C., but in the name of famous kings of a bygone age. A well-known example is the Legend of Sargon of Akkad. In these works the form of the narû is retained, but the matter is legendary or even fictitious.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 5 , December 1955 , pp. 93 - 113
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1955

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