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From Babylon to Dingle (and Back)

One of the most curious features of the first millennium school texts is the frequent juxtaposition of various texts associated with elementary education with dedicatory prayers to Nabû, the son of Marduk, scribal god, and god of wisdom. A good example is the tablet EAH 197: The obverse contains excerpts from five texts, in curricular order: 1) basic wedge exercises (vertical, horizontal, and oblique wedges); 2) the sign A repeated; 3) excerpts from Syllabary A and Syllabary B; 4) the first nine lines of the god list An = Anum; 5) and the first seven lines of the great encyclopedic list Ur5-ra = ḫubullu.1 The reverse is reserved for a prayer which begins:

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  1. Antoine Cavigneaux, “Un Colophon de Type Nabû ša Ḫarê,” Acta Sumerologica Journal 18 (1996): 23–29; Petra Gesche, Schulunterricht in Babylonien im ersten Jahrtausend v. Chr., Alter Orient und Altes Testament 275 (Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2001), 153–166. []