A Bilingual Proverb Collection — A Late Babylonian collection of bilingual proverbs in Sumerian and Akkadian — social wisdom and rain proverbs from a first-millennium clay tablet.
The Dynastic Chronicle — A 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 Scribe — A 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 Shuruppak — The 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.