{{Distinguish|The Oak and the Reed}}The '''Debate between tree and reed''' ([[Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature|CSL]] 5.3.4) is a work of [[Sumerian language|Sumerian literature]] belonging to the genre of [[Sumerian disputations|disputations poem]]. It was written on [[Clay tablet|clay tablets]] and dates to the [[Third Dynasty of Ur]] (ca. mid-3rd millennium BC).{{Sfn|Van Dijk|1953|p=35–36}} The text was reconstructed by M. Civil in the 1960s from 24 manuscripts{{Sfn|Jimenez|2017|p=20n57}} but it is currently the least studied of the disputation poems and a full translation has not yet been published.{{Sfn|Jimenez|2017|p=16, 20}} Some other Sumerian disputations include the dispute between [[Debate between bird and fish|bird and fish]], [[Debate between sheep and grain|cattle and grain]], and [[Debate between Winter and Summer|Summer and Winter]].
