I am a second-year grad student at Yale, working on a PhD in Classics; I have no formal affiliation with Yale's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations other than that I take classes there. (I am also in my second semester of Akkadian.) I had been hoping to post Ištar updates every Tuesday, but I think this week's may have to wait until tomorrow or Sunday; I'm a little swamped with Homeric Greek linguistics at the minute

Did this translation help? Feel free to ask questions, though I can't promise I'll be able to answer all of them . . .