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Shuruppak (Sumerian: 𒋢𒆳𒊒𒆠 ŠuruppagKI, SU.KUR.RUki, "the
healing place"),
modern Tell Fara, was an
ancient Sumerian city
situated about 55 kilometres...
- The
Instructions of
Shuruppak (or,
Instructions of Šuruppak son of Ubara-tutu) are a
significant example of
Sumerian wisdom literature.
Wisdom literature...
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artificial creatures. The name "Atra-Hasis" also appears, as a king of
Shuruppak on the
Euphrates in the
times before that flood, on one of the Sumerian...
- romanized: Ṣísudda,
Ancient Gr****: Ξίσουθρος, romanized: Xísouthros) of
Shuruppak is
listed in the WB-62
Sumerian King List
recension as the last king of...
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placed under Enki), then Badtibira,
Larak (Sumer), Sippar, and
finally Shuruppak. The
cities were
established as
distributive (fr: Économie distributive)...
- c. 2600–2500 BC: The
Instructions of
Shuruppak, the
earliest known literary texts, are
created in Adab,
Shuruppak and Abu Salabikh. 2570 BC:
Reigns of...
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Examples of this
genre include: Book of Proverbs, The
Instructions of
Shuruppak, and
first part of Sima Milka.
Critical Negative Wisdom (also
called "Vanity...
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hinted at by that name in the Old
Babylonian Version of "Instructions of
Shuruppak" are only
developments during that Old
Babylonian Period, when also the...
- on clay
tablets as
early as 2600 BCE.
Along with the
Instructions of
Shuruppak, it is the
oldest surviving literature in the world.
Fragments of the...
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Sumerian Instructions of
Shuruppak (3rd
millennium BCE) warn "The reed-beds are ..., they can hide (?) slander". (Instructions of
Shuruppak,
lines 92–93). Hall...
