Two different versions of the story of Inanna/Ishtar's [[Katabasis|descent into the underworld]] have survived: a Sumerian version dating to the [[Third Dynasty of Ur]] (circa 2112 BCE – 2004 BCE) (ETCSL [http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr141.htm 1.4.1]) and a clearly derivative Akkadian version from the early second millennium BCE. disagrees that the Akkadian poem only summarizes or distorts the Sumerian poem, although there is no doubt of the intertextual relations {{sfn|Brandão|2019|pp=19, 65-67}}}} The Sumerian version of the story is nearly three times the length of the later Akkadian version and contains much greater detail.{{sfn|Dalley|1989|page=154}}
===Sumerian version===