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How Did They Learn Cuneiform? Tribute/Word List C as an Elementary Exercise

Niek Veldhuis, 2006.

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Argues that the Tribute list (Word List C) was an elementary scribal exercise teaching common signs, against the reading of it as the earliest literary text. In P. Michalowski and N. Veldhuis (eds.), Approaches to Sumerian Literature: Studies in Honour of Stip (H. L. J. Vanstiphout), Cuneiform Monographs 35, Brill, pp. 181-200.

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Niek Veldhuis (2006). How Did They Learn Cuneiform? Tribute/Word List C as an Elementary Exercise. https://keibi.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/KEI00003972
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