THE DESCENT
OF ISHTAR
The Goddess in the Lower World
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Adapted from the translation by Morris Jastrow Jr. (1915)
Tablets from the Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh
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The Descent of Ishtar

Translated by Morris Jastrow Jr. (1915)

From the tablets of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, seventh century BCE.
The poem descends from the Sumerian "Descent of Inanna," early second millennium BCE.

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