About Lu-diĝira
Lu-diĝira was a poet.
The letter of Ludingirra to his mother. Terracotta tablet. From Nippur, Iraq. Around 1700 BC. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul
Lu-diĝira was a Sumerian nobleman and poet of Nippur who dedicated a love poem to his mother and two elegies to his father and wife. The eulogies with which he glorifies his mother have been compared to the Song of Songs.
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