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Wisdom
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Texts
A Bilingual Proverb CollectionA Late Babylonian collection of bilingual proverbs in Sumerian and Akkadian — social wisdom and rain proverbs from a first-millennium clay tablet.The Dynastic ChronicleA Sumerian dynastic chronicle from Ashurbanipal's library at Nineveh, recording the passage of kingship from Sippar and Kish through Hammurabi's Babylon to the Sealand, the Bazi dynasty, and the Elamite interregnum — two thousand years of succession in formulaic verse.The Examination of the ScribeA bilingual Sumerian-Akkadian scribal examination catechism, defining the scribe as one born of the great tablets. From the library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh.The Instructions of ShuruppakThe oldest wisdom text in the world — a father's counsel to his son, composed in Sumer nearly five thousand years ago. Good Works Translation from Sumerian.