Hymns to Belit

1. Haupt, Assyrisch-sumerische Keilinschrifttexte, pages 126-131; Prince, The Hymn to Belit K 357, in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, XXIV, 103-128; translated by Jastrow, I, 538f. This is a hymn of some fifty lines sung entirely by Belit in her own praise.

2. Text and transliteration by Scheil, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, X, 291-298; also Scheil, Une saison de fouilles a Sippar, page 98 and Tablet II; translated by Jastrow, I, 541. The first twelve lines of the hymn are addressed to Nippur the city of Bel. The following thirty-eight lines are in praise of Belit, and are for the most part addressed directly to her.