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ON WOLVES AND KINGS. TWO TABLETS WITH AKKADIAN WISDOM TEXTS FROM THE SECOND MILLENNIUM B.C.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2016

Michael P. Streck  and
Nathan Wasserman
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Abstract

      The lair of the wolf is his refuge,
      and where he has made him his home,
      Not even the head wolf may enter,
      not even the council may come.
    Rudyard Kipling,The Law of the Jungle
In this paper two Akkadian wisdom texts are edited and discussed. BM 13928 is an unpublished Old Babylonian list of proverbial sayings and admonitions concerning a wolf and a king. CBS 14235 is a Middle Babylonian tablet which describes the royal life and contrasts it to the behavior of wild animals. The two texts add to the growing corpus of Akkadian wisdom literature of the second millennium b.c. and offer a new angle to our understanding of royal ideology of the period.

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IRAQ , Volume 78 , December 2016 , pp. 241 - 252
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2016 

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