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Journal Article
Memorization and the Transmission of Sumerian Literary Compositions
2012
Overview
Delnero discusses the role of memorization in the transmission of Sumerian literary compositions. It is widely recognized that nearly all preserved copies of Sumerian literary compositions were copied by apprentice scribes as part of their training in the Sumerian language. References to the use of Sumerian literary texts as tools for training scribes, which can be found in nearly every treatment of Sumerian literature published to date, appear as early as the second decade of the twentieth century, when it had become clear that many of the thousands of tablets found during the initial excavations at Nippur contained scribal exercises.
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University of Chicago Press,University of Chicago, acting through its Press
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