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 While the //incipits// of songs quoted here are Akkadian, the inventory also contains a high amount of Sumerian ones.
-All in all, it is clear that the compiler of this catalogue must have had access to at least one collection of manuscripts, be it a temple library or private manuscript collection. It is even rather likely that he produced an inventory of several of such collections. This catalogue also shows that amid the fact that so many scholarly texts dating to the Middle Assyrian period were found at Assur, it offers only a small glimpse of what used to be part of the scribal lore of the period.
+All in all, it is clear that the compiler of this catalogue must have had access to at least one collection of manuscripts, be it a temple library or private manuscript collection. It is even rather likely that he produced an inventory of several of such collections. This catalogue also shows that amid the fact that so many scholarly texts dating to the Middle Assyrian period were found at Assur, it offers only a small glimpse of what used to be part of the scribal lore of the period. (Klaus Wagensonner, Freie Universität Berlin)