One of the rare ancient authors who signed his work

The Poem of Erra, a Babylonian composition usually dated to around the 8th century BCE, names its own author in its closing lines — the scribe Kabti-ilāni-Marduk. By the poem's own account, the work came to him in a dream at night, and he set it down without omitting a word. Either way, he is one of the very few ancient Mesopotamian authors preserved by name at all, since most of the literature is anonymous.

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