Sumerian Proverbs in Their Curricular Context
Niek Veldhuis|Bendt Alster
Bendt Alster has published a two-volume edition of all known Old Babylonian Sumerian proverbs. This publication provides an opportunity to look at the proverbs as corpus and investigate their actual use. Proverbs are mostly found on school tablets. The curriculum position therein is relatively well known. Part I this article explores some implications looking didactic instruments for particular phase scribal education. II includes additional fragments, joins, corrections, suggestions.
Journal of the American Oriental Society