A collector's edition of the past: Personal collections of mesopotamian royal inscriptions from the old Babylonian period:Personal Collections of Mesopotamian Royal Inscriptions from the Old Babylonian Period
The present study focuses on multiple-text manuscripts compiled by scribes for their own use, based on royal monuments set up in temples and thus collectible, in this way, only for ancient scholars. However, these collections were more than mere copies of ancient relics: scribes studied these inscriptions in terms, not only of their contents, but also their palaeography, orthography, grammar and visual organization. All these interests can be discerned based on the collections preserved up to the present day on clay tablets.