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Sumer Event

Samuel Noah Kramer Leads Sumer Symposium

“The Sumerians: Four Days in May,” a celebration of a lifetime of scholarship, will feature the eminent scholar, Samuel Noah Kramer. From May 8 to 11, 1987, at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, California, Dr. Kramer will share his vast knowledge about Sumer—the world’s first great civilization, whose legacy is with us in our own time.

Using the “master class” format usually reserved for great performing artists, Kramer will give participants an intensive experience with Sumerology. Other noted scholars will participate in the master class. In addition, the West Coast premiere of “Inanna,” a 4,500-year-old Sumerian myth about the great Love Goddess and her spouse Dumuzi, will be presented during the program.

The co-sponsor with Pepperdine University of “Four Days in May” is the California Museum of Ancient Art (CMAA). The museum—with major holdings of Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Holy Land Art—is building a center in Los Angeles for the appreciation and study of the cultures that are the foundations of Western Civilization.