On wolves and kings: two tablets with akkadian wisdom texts from the second millennium b.c.

In this paper two Akkadian wisdom texts are edited and discussed. BM 13928 is an unpublished Old Babylonian list of proverbial sayings and admonitions concerning a wolf and a king. CBS 14235 is a Middle Babylonian tablet which describes the royal life and contrasts it to the behavior of wild animals...

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Authors: Streck, Michael P. 1965- (Author) ; Ṿaserman, Natan 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2016
In: Iraq
Year: 2016, Volume: 78, Pages: 241-252
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Summary:In this paper two Akkadian wisdom texts are edited and discussed. BM 13928 is an unpublished Old Babylonian list of proverbial sayings and admonitions concerning a wolf and a king. CBS 14235 is a Middle Babylonian tablet which describes the royal life and contrasts it to the behavior of wild animals. The two texts add to the growing corpus of Akkadian wisdom literature of the second millennium b.c. and offer a new angle to our understanding of royal ideology of the period.
ISSN:2053-4744
Contains:Enthalten in: Iraq
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/irq.2016.11