Sommerso cuneiforme? Un primo tentativo di verifica

This paper aims to investigate wheter the notion of "submerged literature" formalised by Luigi Enrico Rossi and developed by his pupils, which is unknown to the scholars of the Ancient Near East, can be of some use for the study of the cuneiform inscriptions. The discussion of some specific texts, dated to the 21th, 8th and 7th centuries BC, permits to offer a preliminary positive answer. In particular, given the peculiar nature of the cuneiform sources, it appears that one of the most promising avenues of future research deals with the relationships between the political leaders and the scribes.