Title
Notes on the construction of meaning in an Old Babylonian bilingual proverb about exotic animals
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English
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The paper studies an unusual bilingual proverb dealing with rare animals from exotic lands. It aims to demonstrate that the use of a string of very rare words in the proverb is not merely an aesthetic peculiarity, but in fact drove the development of the proverb.
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Proverbs, REPAC
DOI
10.25365/phaidra.261
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Ancient Oriental studies
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Working Paper
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Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies > Department of Near Eastern Studies
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https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1181287
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https://hdl.handle.net/11353/10.1181287
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https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.261
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