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When dealing with archives and libraries in the ancient Near East, Assyriological scholarship has dedicated much effort into the publication of their texts, often concentrating on one particular genre. Less attention has been paid to the questions what particular texts or genres were collected and for what potential purposes in a particular place. The workshop intends to approach Mesopotamian tablet collections, tablet-depots, archives, and libraries from a cultural-anthropological perspective, looking at the epistemic practices and forms of production and reception of texts in order define more closely the repertoire of cultural memory and tradition.