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Azi (scribe)

Ancient Near Eastern scribe

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ4832557 ↗
Source-derived summary

Azi (fl. c. 2500 BC) 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 a highly competent teacher, known from his title, dub-zu-zu, or "one who knows the tablets." Finally, he became a top administrator in the kingdom.

Sources

Quest for the past. Pleasantville: Reader's Digest Association. 1984. p. 54.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Azi (scribe)” as ancient Near Eastern scribe. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where scribe, Ancient and Eastern can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as ancient Near Eastern scribe. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4832557. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1984.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Azi (scribe)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.