24 Aug 2004
CS 5244: Indexing / Classification
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¡Mesopotamians kept track of their tablets with a list of
their incipits:
¡What is it?
¡A poem?
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Mesopotamian Catalogs
Honoured and noble
warrior
When are
the sheep
Where are
the wild oxen
And with you I did
not
In our city
In former days
Lord of the
observance of heavenly laws
Residence
of my God
Gibil, Gibil [the
fire god]
On the 30th day,
the day when sleeps
God An [the sky
god], great ruler
An
righteous woman, who heavenly laws and
The King
whom you bore…
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