Eduba R: The Customs of the Eduba

Abstract

Building on the first edition by Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman (2017), this article provides a fresh look at the Old Babylonian Sumerian literary text commonly referred to as Eduba R, with translation and commentary. In this composition a pupil describes in some detail how a regular day at the scribal school evolves. The text employs many unusual words and phrases and quite a few passages still remain unclear. Some of the unplaced fragments, edited separately by Gadotti and Kleinerman in their edition, may now be placed securely in the reconstructed text.