Old Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part Two : : School Letters, Model Contracts, and Related Texts / / A. R. George, Gabriella Spada.
In ancient Mesopotamia, men training to be scribes copied model letters in order to practice writing and familiarize themselves with epistolary forms and expressions. Similarly, model contracts were used to teach them how to draw up agreements for the transactions typical of everyday economic life....
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 64 illustrations |
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