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For many decades, Mesopotamian archaeologists have neglected the use of cuneiform material (tablets and clay sealings impressed with seal impressions) found during excavations in their functional analyses of buildings. In more recent years, several scholars have shown the great …

The genre known as “instructions” or “wisdom literature” is one of the oldest in ancient Egyptian literature. The first instructions appear in the Old Kingdom and wisdom literature continues to be written for over 2000 years into the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. While the conten…