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Re: orion ORION: Variations



Gentle people--
And also in the cuneiform literature we have substantial evidence that
such autographs were well known to scribal houses.  A number of Assyrian
"Oath Texts," for instance, make clear claim for having been copied from
originals [e.g., KAR.31.Rs.24-28; BAM.50.Rs.22-26; et al].  H Hunger
includes a number of other examples [see Hunger. 1968. Babylonische und
assyrische kolophone. AOAT 2.]

> Thomas L. Thompson wrote:
> 
> I am using something somewhat far afield, and a few centuries
> earlier, but the collophon of the Erra epic is indeed a claim of authorship
> by the scribe who created the poem: or, rather, who received it from
> the gods to write down.
> Thomas.
> 
> > >We have no evidence that authors wrote their own texts.

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