The Sumerian Disputation between Bird and Fish
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The Sumerian Disputation between Bird and Fish
JONATHAN TAYLOR
BRITISH MUSEUM
INTRODUCTION
The Sumerian disputation between Bird and Fish is one of a group of texts known as “Sumerian literary disputations” or “Sumerian debate poems.”¹ The other members of this group are: Hoe and Plough; Sheep and Grain; Winter and Summer; Silver and Copper; Tree and Reed; and Millstone and Pickaxe.
1. For an overview of these texts see Civil 1968: 51–52; Vanstiphout 1986; Vanstiphout 2003: 157–78; Rubio 2009: 265–66; Krecher 2010: 101–2; and Taylor 2014: 1–10.
These texts have been studied extensively in recent years,² but there has been no new edition of Bird and Fish since Kramer’s pioneering work in 1959.³ This article presents a new edition of the text, based on all available sources, including some that were not known to Kramer.
2. See, for example, Alster 1997; Black et al. 2004; and Taylor 2014.
3. Kramer 1959.