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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