Sumerian lexical and literary compositions both emerged from the same social sphere, namely scribal education. The complexities of inter-compositional dependence in these two corpora have not been thoroughly explored, particularly as relevant to questions of text-building during the Old Babylonian period (c. 1800–1600 bce). Copying practices evident in lexical texts indicate that students and scholars adopted various methods of replication, including visual copying, copying from memory, and ad hoc innovation. They were not confined to reproducing a received text. Such practices extend to copying literary compositions. A study of compositions from Advanced Lexical Education in comparison with several literary compositions shows a complex inter-dialectic between the corpora, in which lexical compositions demonstrate dependence on literary compositions and vice versa. Thus, Old Babylonian students and scholars could experiment with multiple text-building practices, drawing on their knowledge of the lexical and the literary, regularly creating new versions of familiar compositions.

苏美尔语的词汇和文学作品都来自同一个社会领域，即抄写教育。在这两个语料库间组成依赖的复杂性还没有被深入探讨，特别是有关在古巴比伦时期（文本建设的问题。1600至00年BCE）。词汇文本中明显的复制实践表明，学生和学者采用了多种复制方法，包括视觉复制，记忆复制和即席创新。它们不限于复制收到的文本。这样的做法扩展到复制文学作品。对高等词汇教育的作文与几种文学作文的比较研究表明，语料库之间存在着复杂的方言，其中词汇作文表现出对文学作文的依赖性，反之亦然。因此，老巴比伦的学生和学者可以利用他们对词汇和文学的了解，尝试多种文本构建方法，并定期创建熟悉的构图的新版本。