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Series of the Poplar

The "Series of the Poplar" is an Akkadian disputation poem containing a discussion between a Poplar, an Ash, and probably other trees, who each tries to establish his preeminence in the vegetal kingdom by listing their many uses and excellent qualities. Most of the surviving examples of the work are from the library of King Assurbanipal of Nineveh, "one of the most important repositories of texts from the entire ancient world".

Manuscripts
Three manuscripts of the text are known: two from Nineveh – apparently from different tablets – and one from Babylonia. The series is mentioned by title in the Neo-Assyrian inventory Rm.618, along with other disputation poems, and in the Catalogue of Texts and Authors. According to the latter, it was written by the Babylonian exorcist Ur-Nanna, who may have lived in the second half of the second millennium BCE. The Nineveh manuscripts, once believed to be part of the Epic of Gilgameš, were edited in the 1960s; the larger Babylonian tablet received a first edition in 2017. The text is still very fragmentary. == External links ==
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