Lists of Personal Names From the Temple School of Nippur

Lists of Personal Names From the Temple School of Nippur
Author: Edward Chiera
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2016-10-11
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781333909192

Excerpt from Lists of Personal Names From the Temple School of Nippur: A Syllabary of Personal Names; Lists of Akkadian Personal Names; Lists of Sumerian Personal Names Akkadian names cf. 19, 20, 22, 38, 47; for Sumerian names, 3, 26, 53, 60. It is a pleasant duty for me to thank Prof. Morris jastrow, jr., to whom this volume has been dedicated, for having read the present part in manuscript, and having offered to me many valuable suggestions. I am also indebted to my former teacher, Prof. A. T. Clay, for having permitted me to include in this volume about twenty tablets which had been assigned to him for publication. These will appear in Pts. II and III. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe

From the Workshop of the Mesopotamian Scribe
Author: Jacob Klein
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020-09-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1646020995

This volume presents first editions of a variety of cuneiform tablets from the Old Babylonian period belonging to the collection of the late Shlomo Moussaieff. It makes available for the first time three texts representing varying levels of Mesopotamian scribal education. The first is what the authors argue is the most complete copy of the first fifty lines of the standard version of the Sumerian epic Gilgameš and the Bull of Heaven. The second is a hitherto unpublished bilingual (Sumerian-Akkadian) lexical list of unknown provenance, similar to the Proto-Aa syllabary. Each of the 314 entries preserved on this tablet provides a pronunciation gloss, a Sumerian logogram, and an Akkadian translation. A unique feature of this list is that the signs are arranged on the basis of graphic concatenation: each sign contains one of the graphic components of the preceding sign. It also yields a great number of hitherto unknown, synonymous Akkadian translations to the Sumerian logograms. The final chapter contains an edition of two groups of lenticular school tablets, containing thirty-three elementary-level scribal exercises. With this volume, Jacob Klein and Yitschak Sefati preserve and disseminate important artifacts that advance the study of Sumerian literature, Mesopotamian lexicography, and ancient Near Eastern scribal education.

Sumerian Proverbs

Sumerian Proverbs
Author: Edmund I. Gordon
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2017-01-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 151281637X

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