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>Taking this sentence as a cue, his opponent begins with the query;
"What do you mean I am not the 'heart* of the student body?" He
then continues with a description of his talents as a keeper of
accounts and ends with these lines:
Me, I was raised on Sumerian, I am the son of a scribe. But you are
a bungler, a windbag. When you try to shape a tablet, you can't even
smooth (?) the clay (?). When you try to write a line, your hand cant
manage (?) the tablet . . . You "sophomore/* cover your ears! cover
your earsl (Yet) you (claim to know) Sumerian like me!
At this point a long passage follows which is so poorly pre-
served that it is difficult to follow even the shift of speakers. Fi-
nally, someone (probably the ugula, that is, a monitor of some
sort) became so incensed at one student—Enkimansi—that he was
ready to lock him up and put him in chains, to judge from the
following passage toward the very end of the composition, which
in the following tentative translation reads:
Why do you behave like this! Why do you push, curse, and hurl
insults at each other! Why do you raise a commotion in the school!
(There follow four unintelligible lines.) The commotion has reached him!
Why were you insolent (?), inattentive (?), (why do you) curse, and hurl
insults against him who is your '*big brother" and has taught you the
scribal art to your own advantage (?)! Even the ummia who knows every-
thing shook his head violently (?) (saying): "Do to him what you please."
If I (really) did to you what I pleased—to a fellow who behaved like
you (and) was inattentive (?) to his "big brother"—I would (first)
beat you with a mace—what's a wooden board (when it comes to beat

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