INTRODUCTION
thus there was at least one school library and one theological library as well as one archive, or record office in the broad sense, in every city.
It appears, therefore, that on the face of it in "the proper and ordinary sense of the term" there were at least two libraries in every place even if an archive is not a library, and it may confidently be hoped that Assyriologists will accept this much at least.
The main purpose of this introduction being, however, not to prove anybody wrong but to set forth as clearly as possible the actual situation and the ground for actual usage of terms, it is worth while to go on with the discussion even if it could be hoped that the Assyriologists were converted by the statement of their own case and to try to find what the real situation and usage of terms are.
The first move always in choosing between names is to draw a line around the
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