Azi (scribe)

Azi (fl. c. 2500 BC) [cite book | last = Leick | first = Gwendolyn | title = Who's Who in the Ancient near East | publisher = Routledge | location = New York | year = 1999 | isbn = 0415132304 | page = pg 35 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=_grCQ9e1up0C&pg=PA35&vq=Azi&dq=azi+ebla&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1&sig=5AHSb0_GyU1uZcPIH7s4ubLP7r0 ] is the name of a scribe from the kingdom of Ebla. His name has been found on a number of clay tablets, making possible an extrapolation of his career path.

Career

He began as a student and passed examinations to become a scribe. He was highly competent teacher, known from his title, "dub-zu-zu", or "one who knows the tablets." [cite journal
last = Viganò
first = Lorenzo
authorlink = Lorenzo Viganò
coauthors = Dennis Pardee
title = Literary Sources for the History of Palestine and Syria: The Ebla Tablets
journal = The Biblical Archaeologist
volume = 47
issue = 1
pages = 6-16
publisher = The American Schools of Oriental Research
location =
date = March, 1984
url = http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0006-0895(198403)47%3A1%3C6%3ALSFTHO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
doi =
id =
accessdate = 2008-05-16] Finally he became a top administrator in the kingdom.

ource

*cite book | title = Quest for the past | publisher = Reader's Digest Association | location = Pleasantville | year = 1984 | isbn = 0895771705 | page = pg 54

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