Abstract
Early in 1931, while excavating the archaeological site of Ur in southern Iraq, English archaeologist Leonard Woolley and his team found several hundred discarded tablets inside a house located to the southeast of the temple zone. These were mainly literary texts (scholastic and liturgical). Around a hundred archival documents (legal texts, accounts and letters) dating from the reign of Ibbi-Sin (Ur III) or written in the Palaeo-Babylonian period are also among the finds. The house, named " No. 1 Broad Street " by L. Woolley, has undergone several transformations, giving rise to various hypotheses as to its history and the origin of the texts. This paper will show the links that can be established between the tablets discarded on site and the administration of local temples, and will lead us in the footsteps of Ur's " Edubba'a ", the famous school founded by King Šulgi.
