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Poor Man of Nippur

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The Poor Man of Nippur is an akkadian story written in sometime in the second millenium B.C. It tells of a poor man who is mistreated and beaten by a local ruler, and in revenge gets into the ruler's home three different ways and beats him. It is attested by only three texts, only one of which is more than a small fragment.[1]

References

  1. ^ Maria deJ. Ellis. A New Fragment of the Tale of the Poor Man of Nippur. Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Apr., 1974), pp. 88-89
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