Counsels of Wisdom

Counsels of Wisdom is a piece of Babylonian wisdom literature written in Akkadian[1] containing moral exhortations.[2] It is composed primarily of two-line units,[3] without sections.[4] A translation of extant portions of the text was published in Lambert 1996. Existing manuscripts are fragmentary, but the original was estimated to be about 160 lines.[2]

  1. ^ Kitchen 1977, p. 114.
  2. ^ a b Lambert 1996, p. 96.
  3. ^ Kitchen 1977, p. 88.
  4. ^ Kitchen 1977, p. 86.