Eduba

Assyrian scribes.

An eduba[a] (Sumerian: 𒂍𒁾𒁀𒀀, romanized: e2-dub-ba-a, lit. 'house where tablets are passed out'[1]) is a scribal school for the Sumerian language. The eduba was the institution that trained and educated young scribes in ancient Mesopotamia during the late third or early second millennium BCE.[2] Most of the information known about edubas comes from cuneiform texts dating to the Old Babylonian period (ca. 2000-1600 BCE).


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  1. ^ Wolfe, Jared. The Cotsen Collection at UCLA: 7 (2024-08-01)
  2. ^ Sjöberg, Åke. 1975. "The Old Babylonian Eduba" in Sumerological Studies in Honor of Thorkild Jacobsen on His Seventieth Birthday, June 7, 1974, edited by S. J. Lieberman, Assyriological Studies 20, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 159-179. pp. 159-160.