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==Article==
In the domain of [[grapholect|grapholectal codes]], we employ the notion of “document-level” phenomenon to refer to the microphenomenic, non systematic phenomena, that belong to the individual practice of a scribe or of a school of scribes. Document-level phenomena do not necessarily reflect a change in the shared semantic code.

==Example==
In the Hittite scribal tradition, the pseudo-Sumerographic writing of the name of the Assyrian plant sahlû is the regular Old Babylonian ZA3.AH.LI (with a generic meaning “cress”). However, in a few texts, generally pertaining to medicine and pharmacology (KUB 37.1 and KUB 37.122), the standard Mesopotamian variant ZA3.HI.LI is preferred (cf. Giusfredi 2012, Giusfredi and Pisaniello 2019). In light of this, the use of the Mesopotamian variant is a document-level feature that may represent a grapholectal variant within a single scribal school. The phenomenon is not systematic and does not reflect a single shared grapholect, as a third text from the same group of documents (KUB 29.58, Meier 1939) patterns with the Hittite tradition as regards the writing ZA3.AH.LI, but selects an atypical variant of NUMUN2, which is shared by KUB 37.122 as well.

==References==
Giusfredi, F. 2012. KUB 37, 1: an Akkadian Medical Text from Boğazköy. Altorientalische Forschungen 39 (2012), pp. 49-63;
Giusfredi, F. and Pisaniello, V. 2019. KUB 37.122: A MESOPOTAMIAN LEXICAL LIST? Vicino Oriente 23, 65-80;
Meier, G. 1939. Ein akkadisches Heilungsritual aus Boğazköy. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 45 (1939), pp. 195-215.

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