Ancient Near Eastern Treatises

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Most of these links are to the excellent site Gateways to Babylon. There is more there than I have included. If this material interests you, you should visit that site as well.
Since some pages are summaries, some versions of the full text, and there may be paraphrases, I have decided to add the page numbers from J. B. Pritchard's Ancient Near Eastern Texts if I can find them (not always easy -- feel free to enlighten me if you know some I have not located, or if I got one wrong (Alan Humm). Obviously, I haven't worked on the Mesopotamian texts yet, but you may still enlighten me.

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Wisdom of Ahiqar As distinguished from the story of Ahiqar.
The Instruction of Amen-em-ope
Critical text (hieroglyphics) with interlinear translation
The dialogue of pessimism
A theology of Memphis or A Memphis Creation
Instructions of Ptah Hotep
In hieroglyphics and transliteration

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