الأمثال في الرسائل الأشورية الحديثة وامتدادها

Abstract
Proverbs are very short sentences popular speech of everyday life, which indicate indirectly special issues concerning political, administrative and social life, etc. The history and origin of Mesopotamians proverbs dates back to the early Dynasty when they were used orally until the Sumerian invented writing approximately 3400 BCE. Thereafter, school teachers used them as an example for students and in this way hundreds of proverbs preserved and continued until the collapse of the late Babylonian period 539 BCE. However, some of them continued in use until now. This paper focuses on some of the discovered proverbs in Assyrian letters and extended to our Arabic language.