The State Hermitage Museum: Exhibitions

14. An excerpt from a "school" dialog
between a student-scribe and his tutor
(Fragment)

The beginning of the text is typical for the genre of "school" dialogs: the tutor addresses his student. The first five signs dumu e2-dub-ba-a mean "son of the school" (literaly "son of the house to which (clay)
tablets are alloted").