In this volume, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman investigate
how Akkadian speakers learned Sumerian during the Old Babylonian
period in areas outside major cities. Despite the fact that it was
a dead language at the time, Sumerian was considered a crucial part
of scribal training due to its cultural importance. This book
provides transliterations and translations of 715 cuneiform scribal
school exercise texts from the Jonathan and Jeanette Rosen Ancient
Near Eastern Studies Collection at Cornell University. These
tablets, consisting mainly of lexical texts, illustrate the process
of elementary foreign-language training at scribal schools during
the Old Babylonian period. Although the tablets are all without
provenance, discrepancies between these texts and those from other
sites, such as Nippur and Ur, strongly suggest that the texts
published here do not come from a previously studied location.
Comparing these tablets with previously published documents,
Gadotti and Kleinerman argue that elementary education in
Mesopotamia was relatively standardized and that knowledge of
cuneiform writing was more widespread than previously assumed. By
refining our understanding of education in southern Mesopotamia,
this volume elucidates more fully the pedagogical underpinnings of
the world’s first curriculum devised to teach a dead language. As
a text edition, it will make these important documents accessible
to Assyriologists and Sumerologists for future study.
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