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Premise
This section of the website offers links to texts of primary sources on Mesopotamian literature (in Sumerian, Akkadian, and other Near Eastern Languages).
The main goal of this section is to provide a direct link to original texts mentioned throughout the volume “At the Origins of Politics”, offering the transcription, transliteration, and English translation of document in ancient Near Eastern Languages.
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Intro
The section provides the full text of the Appendices of G. Buccellati’s book “At the Origins of Politics”, offering both the transcription (both the syllabic transcription and the phonemic one) of the Akkadian texts (according to the sources chosen by the author, put on top of each Appendix) and their English transations (following G. Buccellati’s own translation). The Appendices are here listed in their numerical order, as in the volume.
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