The article provides a new reading for a difficult passage of the so-called "Instructions of Shuruppak", an remarkable composition belonging in the corpus of wisdom literature, dating back to the third millennium BCE. The text is historically very important for our understanding of society and culture in early Mesopotamia, as emerging from popular sayings quoted in it.

A Collation to the Early Dynastic Manuscript of the Instructions of Shuruppak

MAIOCCHI Massimo
2017-01-01

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The article provides a new reading for a difficult passage of the so-called "Instructions of Shuruppak", an remarkable composition belonging in the corpus of wisdom literature, dating back to the third millennium BCE. The text is historically very important for our understanding of society and culture in early Mesopotamia, as emerging from popular sayings quoted in it.
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