Introduction: where the tablet is introduced as the world's first political satire, the world's first comedy, and the world's first murder mystery.
Tablet: shows photographs and line-drawings of the table; also includes a link to the Library of Congress cuneiform website, and a link to the CDLI's hi-res photo of the tablet.
Translation: translation of the tablet, with minimum explanatory comment.
Annotations: line-by-line translation with notes that give the historical context of the story and explains its hidden meanings and word-play.
Transliteration: the Sumerian words and their English equivalents, with notes on the translation. It also includes notes on decoding mahX, and Appendix A, which summarizes the ways the meaning of the text is obscured. Dull reading for anyone but a Sumerologist.
Images: photographs of Sumerian art and artifacts.
Gudea Translation: historical background on Gudea; translation of Gudean foundation cone.
Ur-Namma Translation: historical background on Ur-Namma; translation of votive tablet.
Gudea Tablet: photograph of a Gudean commemorative tablet.
A Masterpiece: where I discuss the literary merits of the tablet.
Early Old Babylonian?: discusses the date of the tablet and its historic significance.
The scribe: scribes in Sumerian society; the scribe who wrote The Great Fatted Bull.
