楔形文字碑：a-she-er-gi ta，balag to Innin/Ishtar - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	楔形文字碑：a-she-er-gi ta，balag to Innin/Ishtar
品名（英）	Cuneiform tablet: a-she-er gi-ta, balag to Innin/Ishtar
入馆年号	1886年，86.11.286a
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 200 - 公元前 1
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尺寸	3 7/8 x 3 1/4 x 1 英寸 (10 x 8.3 x 2.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	这块楔形文字碑记录了巴拉格的一部分，这是一首伴随着弦乐器的哀歌。文本是典型的塞琉古时期，其中文字是用苏美尔语写成的，但有大量的行伴随着阿卡德语翻译。直到公元前2000年左右，苏美尔语一直是美索不达米亚南部使用的语言，而阿卡德语在撰写这块石碑时可能已经不再是口语，在近东的大部分地区已被阿拉姆语和希腊语所取代。然而，苏美尔语和阿卡德语都继续用楔形文字书写，直到公元前几个世纪，由博学的抄写员书写。这块石碑包含苏美尔生育女神伊南娜对她的城市和神社被毁的哀叹，并将她现在的屈辱与她以前的权力进行了对比。这与公元前三千年末和公元前二千年的著名神话有相似之处 - 例如伊南娜下降到下界的神话的苏美尔版本 - 展示了美索不达米亚寺庙文士保持的悠久的文学传统。
介绍（英）	This cuneiform tablet records part of a balag, a song of lament that accompanied a stringed instrument. The text is typical of the Seleucid period, where the words are written in Sumerian but with a large number of lines accompanied by an Akkadian translation. Sumerian was the language spoken in southern Mesopotamia until around 2000 B.C., while Akkadian had probably ceased to be a spoken language by the time this tablet was written, having been replaced by Aramaic and Greek throughout much of the Near East. However, both Sumerian and Akkadian continued to be written in cuneiform until the early centuries A.D. by learned scribes. This tablet contains a lament by Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of fertility, over the destruction of her cities and shrines, and contrasts her present humiliation with her previous power. There are parallels with well-known myths dating from the late third and second millennia B.C.—such as the Sumerian version of the myth of Inanna's descent to the netherworld—demonstrating the very longlived literary tradition maintained by the temple scribes of Mesopotamia.