Langue et écriture dans la vallée du Moyen-Euphrate à la fin de la période des shakkanakkus de Mari (seconde moitié du 20e et 19e siècles av. J.-C.)

During the latest archaeological works on Mari (2002-2010), texts belonging to different phases of šakkanakku period (ca 2300-1940 BC) have been discovered. Although the distribution according to the phases is not homogeneous these documents show “ruptures” and “continuities” within the scribal practice and the dialect used. The late phase, the best documented, is characterized by an archaic graphic tradition, “archaic logograms” (no used in southern Mesopotamia since the end of the 3rd millennium) and an Euphratic dialect (close to the Ebla dialect). For the other phases (old phases), we have few tablets and some official inscriptions : tablets expose a graphic style close to Agadean ductus and Akkadian expressions that will no longer be used during the late phase. In order to better understand the oldest šakkanakkus documents with features inherited from the Agadean tradition, these items will be confronted with the textual data of the Mari Ville II (phase said presargonic).