Neo Assyrian Exercises

VAT 10071; an exercise tablet from Assur. Photograph © Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin.

Very few school exercises have been identified among the thousands of cuneiform tablets that have been found in Assyria. The exercises that are known come from the city of Assur and were found in private homes. The consist of brief extracts from lexical and literary texts. The lexical texts that are extracted include the thematic list Ura, the list of compound signs Diri, the word list Erimhuš, and the commentary text Murgud (commentary to Ura).

Further reading

• Groneberg, Brigitte, Frauke Weiershäuser, and G. Krause 2006 Digitale Keilschrift Bibliothek [http://keil.uni-goettingen.de/].

Niek Veldhuis

Niek Veldhuis, 'Neo Assyrian Exercises', Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts, The DCCLT Project, 2019 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/dcclt/lexicalliststypology/exercises/neoassyrian/]