Cultural Identity in Sumerian Literature

This dissertation will be a literary analysis of Ur III and Old Babylonian Sumerian language literary text that sets out to identify elements of cultural identity. This research is based on the idea that literature is a means to express cultural identity and therefore it is possible to determine a definition of the Sumerian cultural identity through the analysis of Sumerian literature. The dissertation will furthermore look for a relationship between cultural identity and urbanity and the associated idea of permanence.