Abstract
The literary texts from Mari's Site K are among the oldest of the Paleo-Babylonian period, and provide valuable insights into the teaching of student scribes in the Middle Euphrates Valley, at a relatively advanced stage of their training. This paper will analyze their place within the school curriculum and show that these compositions belonged to the core corpus of literary teaching at the time(core currricular compositions) and circulated in forms close to those attested in the South, while the ritual and bilingual texts bear witness to a greater diversity and, no doubt, to a phase of literary experimentation specific to Mari.
