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Daily Data: The Royal Correspondence of Ur

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Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/digitalhammurabi Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/digitalhammurabi Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/digitalhammurabi Scribal training in Mesopotamia included learning from a wide variety of model texts, including letters. Dr. Josh examines the historical importance of these documents.

More information:  
Michalowski, Piotr. 2011. The Correspondence of the Kings of Ur: An Epistolary History of an Ancient Mesopotamian Kingdom - https://tinyurl.com/yamh5mk3
Translation of literary letters - http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/catalogue/catalogue3.htm

For general information and sources relating to the Ancient Near East, we recommend these websites:

http://www.etana.org/abzubib - collection of free and open-access data
https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/orie... - University of Chicago Oriental Institute, great collection of free books and articles
http://www.livius.org - general encyclopedia on the ancient world
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk - Mesopotamian literature
http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu - collection of projects relating to Mesopotamia
http://psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/neps... - Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary
https://cdli.ucla.edu - Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

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