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“I WAS NOT WARM IN THE COLD”. ANOTHER OLD BABYLONIAN PROVERBIAL COLLECTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2019

Abstract

BM 108868, an unpublished Old Babylonian tablet containing a collection of moral and existential sayings is edited here for the first time, accompanied by a commentary, photos and a hand-copy. With this discovery, the existence of a solid 2nd millennium tradition of monolingual Akkadian proverbial sayings is established.

Type
Research Article
Information
IRAQ , Volume 81 , December 2019 , pp. 241 - 245
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2019 

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References

1 Streck, M.P. and Wasserman, N., “On Wolves and Kings. Two Tablets with Akkadian Wisdom Texts from the Second Millennium B.C.Iraq 78 (2016), 241252CrossRefGoogle Scholar. See that publication for further bibliography.

2 The late W. G. Lambert went over the text, and his preliminary notes can be found in his folios (no. 9924, s. http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/contrib/lambert).