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written religeu religious ones, as well as for internal use of the kingdom.
It is possible and even probable that the Scholar and neighbour of Rašapabu taught. He was probably not a master-scribe who directed a schools, for in that case, we should have found in his house pupils' exercisess and alphabet primers of which we have discovered many examples elsewhere at Ugarit. He must, no doubt, have given his teaching to scribes already trained and eager to improve themselves in order to reach the rank of master and polyglot scribe or to prepare themselves for research so much prized at Ugarit, as the discovery in our excavations of numerous documents of philology and of comparative religion.
Among the tablets that have survived from his library there are precisely two (if not three, see below) which seem to come from one of these students destined for higher learning. These are the texts (17.10 and 17.80, pt.top.991, cf. Nougayrol above, p.23.) which were written by the same hand, a fairly inexperienced hand still, it seems. However, the document itself constitutes a composition classic, used and copied in all the major teaching centres of the cuneiform world from Sumer and Babylon to Boghazkeuy in central Anatolia and, as we now see, also at Ugarit
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