=== アッカド語版 ===
この版には、アッシュールバニパル図書館で見つかった2つの写本と、アッシュールで見つかった3つの写本があり、いずれも共通時代以前の1千年紀の前半に作られたものである<ref>Brandão, 2019, p11</ref>。 This version had two manuscripts found in the Library of Ashurbanipal and a third was found in Asshur, all dating from the first half of the first millennium before the common era.{{Sfn|Brandão|2019|p=11}} Of the Ninevite version, the first cuneiform version was published in 1873 by François Lenormant, and the transliterated version was published by Peter Jensen in 1901.{{Sfn|Brandão|2019|p=11}} Its title in Akkadian is ''Ana Kurnugê, qaqqari la târi''.{{Sfn|Brandão|2019|p=11}}
The Akkadian version begins with Ishtar approaching the gates of the [[Irkalla|underworld]] and demanding the gatekeeper to let her in: