"Sumerian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this ideogram by "Assur," but it is very awkward that in these texts the identification with Assur occurs nowhere. I therefore transcribe "Sumer," which was the true name of the people and the language named wrongly Accadian. The term of "Sumerian" is supported by MM. Menant, Eneberg, Gelzer, Praetorius, Delitzsch, ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Literature • Anonymous |
