Lu-diĝira was a

Sumer Sumer () is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC. It is one of the cradles of c ...

ian nobleman and poet of

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who dedicated a love poem to his

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and two elegies to his

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and

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. The eulogies with which he glorifies his mother have been compared to the Song of Songs.

References

* *Çig, M, and Kramer, S.N., "The Ideal Mother: A Sumerian Portrait", Belleten 40 (1976), 413-421. *Civil, Miguel, "The 'Message of Lú-dingir-ra to His Mother' and a Group of Akkado-Hittite 'Proverbs'", ''

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'' 23 (1964), 1-11. *Cooper, Jerrold S., "New Cuneiform Parallels to the Song of Songs", ''

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'' 90 (1971), 157-162. *Nougayrol, Jean, "Textes Suméro-Accadiens des archives et bibliothéques privées d'Ugarit", Ugaritica 5 (1968), 1-446:.-

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