This volume presents first editions of a variety of cuneiform
tablets from the Old Babylonian period belonging to the collection
of the late Shlomo Moussaieff. It makes available for the first
time three texts representing varying levels of Mesopotamian
scribal education. The first is what the authors argue is the most
complete copy of the first fifty lines of the standard version of
the Sumerian epic Gilgameš and the Bull of Heaven. The second is a
hitherto unpublished bilingual (Sumerian-Akkadian) lexical list of
unknown provenance, similar to the Proto-Aa syllabary. Each of the
314 entries preserved on this tablet provides a pronunciation
gloss, a Sumerian logogram, and an Akkadian translation. A unique
feature of this list is that the signs are arranged on the basis of
graphic concatenation: each sign contains one of the graphic
components of the preceding sign. It also yields a great number of
hitherto unknown, synonymous Akkadian translations to the Sumerian
logograms. The final chapter contains an edition of two groups of
lenticular school tablets, containing thirty-three elementary-level
scribal exercises. With this volume, Jacob Klein and Yitschak
Sefati preserve and disseminate important artifacts that advance
the study of Sumerian literature, Mesopotamian lexicography, and
ancient Near Eastern scribal education.
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