Dumuzid and his sisters
Sumerian
Ur III / Old Babylonian (c. 2100–1600 BCE)
9 pages
About This Book
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Dumuzid and his sisters captures the raw, unrelenting reality of grief in the ancient world. It forces us to confront the boundary between the living and the dead through the eyes of a woman who refuses to let go of her brother.