This volume "Praise to Istar" contains three quite distinct Old-Babylonian prayers to the fertility-and-war goddess. Two of these texts, one from the Louvre Museum, the other from the Irak Museum in Bagdad, are edited for the first time. The third is a thorough revision and expansion of the author's 1981 edition of the Agushaya hymn. Although the contents of the texts are considerably different, the three are thematically related and share the same poetic language of Old Babylonian epic hymns. The lengthy text from the Louvre Museum, clearly marked by a transvestite ceremony, and the much shorter Agushaya hymn present detailed descriptions of Ishtar rituals. The third text can be described as a personal lament, which in style and content resembles the Old-Babylonian version of the "Righteous Sufferer".