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F. I. Dölger, Sphragis: eine altchristliche Taufbezeichnung in ihren Beziehungen zur profanen und religiösen Kultur des Altertums (=Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des Altertums V 3–4) (1911).

Goff, 1956 and 1963.

Hallo, “The Royal Inscriptions of Ur: A Typology,” Hebrew Union College Annual 33 (1962), p. 14, note 107; Hallo, 1983, p. 13.

CAD N, 1, p. 303b; cf. Erica Reiner, “The Etiological Myth of the ‘Seven Sages,’” Oriwntalia 30(1961), pp. 1–11.

CAD K, p. 544c; cf. CAD N, 1, p. 303b; Beatrice L. Goff, “The Rôle of Amulets in Mesopotamian Ritual Texts,” The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld institutes 19 (1956), pp. 35 f. = Goff, Symbols of Prehistoric Mesopotamia (Yale University Press: New Haven and London, 1963), p. 208

Samuel Noah Kramer, “Ur-Nammu’s Death and Burial,” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 21 (1967), pp. 104–122, line 119: “a lapis-lazuli seal hanging on a dagger.”

William L. Rathje, “New Tricks for Old Seals: A Progress Report,” in Gibson and Biggs, pp 25–32.

Marvin Pope, Song of Songs: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary The Anchor Bible, 7C (Doubleday & Company, Inc.: New York, 1977), pp. 210–299.

Franz Rosenzweig, The Star of Redemption, translated by William W. Hallo (Beacon Press: Boston, 1972), pp. 156–204.

The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD) K, p. 544c.