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The article focuses on the late Babylonian variation on an Eršema to Inana tablet namely VAT 7826. It explores the features related to the tablet and the insertion of the paragraph on the veiled mouring Inana. It discusses the physical distribution of signs in the tablet that would indicated it was copied from other tablet as a technical exercise. It also looks at the pssages that duplicate the text of the standard Eršema .

The tablet published in this article stems from the Sealand dynasty that ruled southern Babylonia between the end of the first dynasty of Babylon and the Kassite period. The tablet contains an abbreviated version of the Balaĝ am-e bára-an-na-ra . The Sealand text enables an examination of the literary history of this Balaĝ from the Old Babylonian period to the first millennium BCE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]