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ETCSL catalogue: scribal training literature

'E-duba' literature

• 5.1.1 Schooldays (E-duba A)
• 5.1.2 A scribe and his perverse son (E-duba B)
• 5.1.3 The advice of a supervisor to a younger scribe (E-duba C): composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.1.4 Scribal activities (E-duba D)
• 5.1.5 Instructions of the ummia (E-duba E)
• 5.1.6 Regulations of the E-duba (E-duba R)

Debate poems

• 5.3.1 The debate between the Hoe and the Plough: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.3.2 The debate between Sheep and Grain: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.3.4 The debate between Tree and Reed
• 5.3.3 The debate between Winter and Summer: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.3.4 The debate between Tree and Reed
• 5.3.5 The debate between Bird and Fish: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.3.6 The debate between Silver and Copper: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.3.7 The debate between the Date Palm and the Tamarisk: composite text | translation | bibliography

Dialogues and diatribes

• 5.4.01 A dialogue between two scribes (Dialogue 1)
• 5.4.02 A dialogue between Enki-hengal and Enkita-lu (Dialogue 2)
• 5.4.03 A dialogue between Enki-manshum and Girini-isag (Dialogue 3)
• 5.4.04 A dialogue between two women (Dialogue 4)
• 5.4.05 A dialogue between two women (Dialogue 5)
• 5.4.10 A diatribe against Usani (Diatribe A)
• 5.4.11 A diatribe against Engar-dug (Diatribe B): composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.4.12 He is a good seed of a dog (Diatribe C): composite text | translation | bibliography

Songs and related compositions

• 5.5.1 The message of Lu-dingira to his mother: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.5.2 An elegy on the death of Nannaya (Elegy 1): composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.5.3 An elegy on the death of Nawirtum (Elegy 2): composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.5.4 The song of the hoe: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.5.5 The song of the ploughing oxen: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.5.6 The song of the millstone
• 5.5.a A drinking song: composite text | translation | bibliography

'Wisdom literature'

• 5.6.a The raven and the goose
• 5.6.1 The instructions of Shuruppag: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.6.2 Counsels of wisdom
• 5.6.3 The farmer's instructions: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.6.5 The three ox-drivers from Adab: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.6.7 The old man and the young girl

Other scribal training literature

• 5.2.4 A man and his god: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.2.5 The poem of early rulers: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.7.1 Enlil and Nam-zid-tara: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.7.2 Nintinuga's dog: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.7.3 The dedication of an axe to Nergal: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.9.1 The home of the fish: composite text | translation | bibliography
• 5.9.2 The heron and the turtle: composite text | translation | bibliography

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