Reproductions of tables from Nippur belonging to the Babylonian Section of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. S.N. Kramer has grouped the plates in their present arrangement and has contributed the introductory descriptions of the text. Cf. Foreword
Error in paging: p. [xi] numbered ix; All the tablets here published form part of the Nippur collections now in the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. --Pref
This volume ... consists of facsimiles of tablets from the Nippur collection of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Samuel N. Kramer ... has ... grouped the plates in their present arrangement and contributed the introductory descriptions of the texts. --Editorial note; The texts include Sumerian proverbs, incantations, lamentations, hymns, and liturgies together with a few apparently legendary and historical texts
