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> ...spent hours at a time in the library reading tablet translations. At one point I was seriously trying to learn enough German to read some translations only in German.

A lot of that is now available in English via the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. For instance this translation of the classic descent of Inanna.

https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr141.htm

Around 2300 BCE Inanna and Ishtar had their myths and identities syncretized by the first named author in history Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon of Akkad, after a political feud with the rebel Sumerian king Lugal-Anne-Mundu.

In the 4th century CE Ereshkigal even got syncretized with the Greco-Anatolian Titan/Goddess Hecate as "Hecate-Ereshkigal" in the Greek Magical Papyri (GPM).