This article results from research conducted under the auspices of the project REPAC"Repetition,Parallelism and Creativity:An Inquiry into the Construction of Meaning in Ancient Mesopotamian Literature and Erudition"(2019-2024,University of Vienna)that has received funding from the European Research Council(ERC)under Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme(Grant agreementno.803060).
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This paper is supported by the grant from 2021 Taizhou Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project Study on the Construction of Humanistic and Ecological Value System of Taizhou Proverbs(21GHB18).
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