"I was not warm in the cold": another old babylonian proverbial collection

BM 108868, an unpublished Old Babylonian tablet containing a collection of moral and existential sayings is edited here for the first time, accompanied by a commentary, photos and a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 s...

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Published in:Iraq
Authors: Streck, Michael P. 1965- (Author) ; Ṿaserman, Natan 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2019
In: Iraq
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Babylon / Text / Monolingualism / Proverb / Akkadian language
IxTheo Classification:TB Antiquity
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Summary:BM 108868, an unpublished Old Babylonian tablet containing a collection of moral and existential sayings is edited here for the first time, accompanied by a commentary, photos and a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.
ISSN:2053-4744
Contains:Enthalten in: Iraq
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/irq.2019.13