Du signe à l’enveloppe. L’enseignement du genre épistolaire à l’époque amorrite d’après un nouveau modèle de lettre scolaire avec enveloppe

International audienceIn this article are published three clay tablets kept in the Lloyd Cotsen Cuneiform Tablets Collection (UCLA) dating to the early second millennium BCE. These tablets are copies of an Akkadian model letter known at first only through two duplicates kept in a private collection in Paris and published in 2002 by Pierre Marello. The latter understood the tablets from Paris as real archival letters, but I showed that all five duplicates are school exercises. Found during illegal excavations, they probably come from the same locus in Iraq. After editing the three tablets from UCLA, I compared the five duplicates from Paris and Los Angeles and explored their school setting. Finally, what scribes learned by copying these texts and the connection between Old Babylonian school letters and real contemporary letters are investigated