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Enheduanna
42
Recorded
Forty-two Sumerian Temple Hymns attributed to Enheduanna
The critical edition collects forty-two Sumerian temple hymns.
What it supports
A textual count in Sjöberg & Bergmann, The Collection of the Sumerian Temple Hymns (1969). A recorded corpus size in one scholarly edition.
What it does not
Not proof of a secret 42 tradition spanning Sumer, Egypt and Adams. The count belongs to this collection as edited. Hymn numbering is a modern scholarly apparatus on ancient texts.
ExactnessCount
Form42
Unithymns
Strengthattested
Whenc. 2300 BCE / ed. 1969