М.: Наука, 1964. — 157 с. — (Языки народов Азии и Африки). Предлагаемая читателю работа Л. А. Липина "Аккадский язык" входит в серию очерков по языкам народов Азии и Африки, публикуемую Институтом народов Азии Академии наук СССР. В большей части очерков, как и в данном, описываются конкретные языки различных стран Азии и Африки, а также языки прошлого, сыгравшие большую...
М.: Наука, 1964. — 157 с. — (Языки народов Азии и Африки). Предлагаемая читателю работа Л. А. Липина "Аккадский язык" входит в серию очерков по языкам народов Азии и Африки, публикуемую Институтом народов Азии Академии наук СССР. В большей части очерков, как и в данном, описываются конкретные языки различных стран Азии и Африки, а также языки прошлого, сыгравшие большую...
Brill, 2024. — xxii, 569 p. — (Cuneiform Monographs 55). Akkadian Royal Letters in Later Mespotamian Tradition reconsiders the question of the authenticity of the letters attributed to earlier royal correspondents that were studied in Assyrian and Babylonian scribal centres ca. 700–100 BCE. By scrutinizing the letters’ contents, language, possible transmission histories ca....
Linguistic Society of America, 1937. — 64 p. — (Language dissertations 23). The Nuzi dialect of Akkadian is known from several thousand cuneiform tablets discovered in the ruins of ancient Nuzi, about 10 miles southwest of modern Kirkuk, Iraq. These documents, dating from the middle of the second millennium B. C., were unearthed in the course of several campaigns sponsored by...
Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2008. — 497 p. — (Alter Orient und Altes Testament [AOAT] 352). The author presents a complete re-edition of previously published and an edition of hitherto unpublished Middle-Babylonian legal deeds excavated in the Syrian kingdom of Alalah (Tell Acana), including new copies of all cuneiform tablets (chapter IV). This (re-)edition serves as a basis for...
Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2007. — 116 p. — (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 338). Over twenty years have now elapsed since the appearance of my 'new edition' of The Legend of Etana published by Aris and Phillips, Warminster, in 1985. It was a publication that was to disappoint me in many ways: the Introduction lamented that 'what is lost is far more than that which is...
Amsterdam; Oxford; New York: Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1984. — 54 p. — (Mededelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde 47 - No. 2) Unsere herkömmlichen Grammatiken des Akkadischen unterscheiden zwischen Verbalsätzen und Nominalsätzen. Den Sinn der diesen beiden Klammerformen entsprechenden französischen Termini “phrase...
Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2001. — 867 S. — (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 275). Die vorliegende Arbeit ist dem Schulunterricht in Babylonien im ersten Jahrtausend v. Chr. gewidmet. Die Basis für die Untersuchung bilden insgesamt etwa fünftausend Tontafeln, die von Schülern im Laufe ihrer Ausbildung angefertigt wurden. Sie ermöglichen einen tiefen Einblick in die...
Kevelaer: Verlag Butzon und Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag des Erziehungsvereins, 1971. — xii, 131 p. — (Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Sonderreihe 2). Das Mittelassyrische ist mit etwa 600 publizierten Texten der am schlechtesten bezeugte Dialekt des Assyrischen. Dieser dürftige Textbestand bringt eine ganze Reihe von Schwierigkeiten mit sich. Die Masse der...
Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008. — 476 S. — (Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (TAVO). Reihe B. Geisteswissenschaften 7; Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes 7/1). Der vorliegende Band bildet den Abschluss des mehrbändigen Werkes „Répertoire Géographique des Textes Cunéiformes“ (RGTC), das innerhalb des „Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients“...
Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1985. — 427 p. — (Répertoire géographique des textes cunéiformes 8; Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. Reihe B. Geisteswissenschaften 7/8). This volume starts where RGTC 5 stops, namely with the accession of Nabu-mukîn-apli (978 B.C.). It ends when the cuneiform recording of relevant sources ceased to exist, namely in the...
Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2001. — cvi, 430 p. — (Beihefte zum Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients. Reihe B. Geisteswissenschaften 7; Répertoire géographique des textes cunéiformes 12/2). Das Répertoire Géographique ist längst zu einem unentbehrlichen Handbuch in der Altorientalistik geworden. Mit dem beträchtlichen zeitlichen Abstand von 9 Jahren folgt auf Teil 1...
Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1998. — xiv + 589 p. — (Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Veröffentlichungen zur Kultur und Geschichte des Alten Orients und des Alten Testaments 255). Grundlagen. Der Wortschatz des DAW wurde im wesentlichen auf der Grundlage des AHw und der in diesem gebotenen Stichwörter und Übersetzungen erarbeitet. So sehr eine gleichzeitige und vollständige...
Louvain-la-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste; Louvain-Paris: Peeters Press, 2003. — 237 p. — (Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain 51). Depuis la grammaire akkadienne de Mgr. Gonzague Ryckmans publiee en 1938, il n'existait pas en langue francaise de grammaire concernant la langue internationale du Proche-Orient au second millenaire...
Peeters, 2023. — XVIII, 387 p. — (Archives Royales de Mari 34). ARMT XXXIV est la suite de ARMT XXXIII et continue la publication des textes épistolaires des archives royales de Mari relatifs à l'accession au pouvoir du roi Zimrî-Lîm. Une fois Bannum disparu, le roi de Mari eut à affronter une partie de la population bédouine de son royaume qui, tout en reconnaissant sa...
Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2002. — xvii + 945 p. — (Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Veröffentlichungen zur Kultur und Geschichte des Alten Orients und des Alten Testaments 279). Die vorliegende Studie erörtert den Gebrauch der Tempora Präsens, Präteritum, Perfekt und Stativ in literarischen Texten des Altbabylonischen unter Berücksichtigung des Gebrauchs derselben in...
Ugarit-Verlag, 1999. — 257 S. — (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 264). Die Epik ist als "eines der bedeutsamsten Phänomene der akkadischen Literatur" (Hecker1974, v) bezeichnet worden. Unbestritten gehören die Epen um Gilgames, Sintflut, Weltschöpfung oder Erra zum Kernbestand babylonisch-assyrischer belles lettres. Als einige der vornehmsten Zeugnisse des altmesopotamischen...
Brill, 1973. — xi, 141 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East. Ergänzungsband 9/5/2). Die vorliegende Arbeit ist die Fortsetzung der Einleitung in die assyrischen Königsinschriften von R. Borger, in der die assyrischen Königsinschriften von den Anfängen bis 935 v. Chr. gesammelt, geordnet und untersucht wurden. Der zweite Teil umfaßt nunmehr den...
Product Bundle. — New York; Oxford University Press Inc., 2003. — 1178 p. The Babylonian Gilgamesh epic is the acknowledged masterpiece of ancient Mesopotamian literature. Nevertheless it has to be re-edited periodically to take account of the enormous increase in primary sources that occurs every generation. Since the last critical edition of the epic seventy years ago the...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. — 762 p. — (Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 16). Die Neuassyrische Grammatik bietet die erste vollständige grammatische Beschreibung der semitischen Sprache des von etwa 1000 bis 609 v.Chr. existierenden Neuassyrischen Reiches. Obwohl das Neuassyrische in etwa 6000 Texten, die seit 1987 in qualitativ hochwertigen Editionen herausgegeben werden,...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. — 193 p. — (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 163; Keilschrifttexte aus Assur literarischen Inhalts 16). Dieser Band ist den in Assur entdeckten historisch-epischen Keilschrifttexten gewidmet. Editionen der insgesamt 53 Tontafeln und Tontafelfragmente erschließen ganz neue Einblicke in die höfische Literatur...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. — 630 p. — (Heidelberger Emesal-Studien 6). Zum ältesten literarischen Erbe Mesopotamiens zählen psalmenartige Lieder, die in der Emesal genannten Varietät der sumerischen Sprache verfasst sind und nach dem Instrument, mit dem man ihren Vortrag begleitete, Balaĝ(-Gebete) genannt wurden. Die Balaĝ-Gebete zeichnen sich durch lange Litaneien aus, in...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024. — 357 p. — (Cuneiform Texts from the Iraqi Excavations at Umma (Jokha) 3). The administration of Umma was housed in a building adjoining the temple of the city god Shara. There, on the main tell, the Iraqi excavators, directed by the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, found a collection of clay bullae dating from the time of Sumuel of Larsa....
Johns Hopkins University, 2024. — 767 p. Incantations are magical recitations intended to manipulate reality for the benefit of the reciter or their client. Throughout the history of ancient Iraq, otherwise known as Mesopotamia, these recitations were inscribed onto clay tablets and performed for a variety of cultic, medical, and private functions, such as consecrating ritual...
The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2024. — 293 p. — (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Empire 1/1). Table of contents: Contents List of Figures. Contents of Scores Directors’ Foreword Foreword from the Director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum Preface Editorial Notes Bibliographical Abbreviations Other Abbreviations Object Signatures Introduction I. Nabopolassar...
Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2018 — 153 p. — (Orient & Méditerranée 30). This book contains a full reedition by F. Malbran-Labat and C. Roche-Hawley of the so-called “Malamir” tablets, originally published in 1902 and 1930 by Vincent Scheil. These texts date to the Kidinu dynasty, which ruled over Elam in the 15th century BC. The corpus consists of some sixteen documents,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. — 280 p. — (Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania: Cuneiform texts 9). This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out...
University of Oxford, 2018. — 470 p. Clay tablets in the Proto-cuneiform script (c. 3300-3000 BC) of ancient Iraq and the Proto-Elamite script (c. 3100-2900 BC) of ancient Iran represent two of the earliest inventions of writing in the world - both of which are only partially deciphered. The separate scripts share only a few signs between them, including signs representing...
Universitat de Barcelona, 2018. — 271 p. Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht, inwieweit eine Auswahl von schriftlichen Variationen in den altbabylonischen Briefen aus Mittelmeesopotamien signifikante linguistische Variablennutzen, die zeitlich-historische (diachronische), räumlich- geographische (diatopische) oder individuell-situative Heterogenität bezeichnen. Gegenstand...
University of California – Berkeley, 2013. — 178 p. The present study argues that using dress theory is a productive means of reading cuneiform texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Although anthropological studies on dress have flourished in recent years, and despite the economic and social importance of dress in ancient Mesopotamia, previous research has focused on either...
Brill Academic Pub, 2022. — xi, 147 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1. The Near and Middle East 9/5/1; Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1. The Near and Middle East. Ergänzungsband 9/5/1). able of contents: Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Vorwort I. Die altassyrischen Königsinschriften bis Sargon I. II. Šamši-Adad I. und seine Nachfolger...
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2023. — 227 p. — (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 162 / IX Keilschrifttexte aus Assur literarischen Inhalts 15). Der Band ist den in Assur gefundenen, von Schülern angefertigten Tontafeln aus neuassyrischer Zeit gewidmet, die den komplexen Erwerb von Schrift- und Sprachkenntnissen in vielen Einzelheiten dokumentieren...
SBL Press, 2014. — 784 p. — (Writings from the Ancient World). Table of contents: Frontmatter Series Editor's Foreword Preface Abbreviations Introduction Part 1: Foundations General Remarks Chapter 1: The Diagnostic and Prognostic Series Chapter 2: Pharmacology Chapter 3: The Therapeutic Series Chapter 4: Medical Text Commentaries Part 2: Therapeutics Chapter 5: Eyes, Ears,...
Penn State University Press, 2020. — 273 p. — (Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians 12). 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....
Ugarit Verlag, 2008. — 186 p. — (Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record 4). The Neo-Babylonian period is one of the best documented in ancient Mesopotamia. Many thousands of economic and administrative texts have been preserved both from institutional and private archives,4 as well as hundreds of royal inscriptions, and several chronicles and literary texts.
Penn State University Press, 2020. — 740 p. — (Mesopotamian Civilizations 23). This book presents a reassessment of the governmental systems of the Late Babylonian period—specifically those of the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian empires—and provides evidence demonstrating that these are among the first to have developed an early form of administrative law. The present study...
Uppsala University, 2023. — 52 p. In the face of the apparent lack of material incentive for an otherwise seemingly demanding and difficult education, this study aims to investigate the possible reasons why a young student scribe would choose to become a scholar in ancient Mesopotamia. What motivated them to undergo onerous scribal training when financial security was not a...
Harvard University, 2023. — 210 p. This dissertation explores the orthographic changes in cuneiform during the Old Babylonian Period (2004-1595 BCE). Over the course of several decades around 1900-1850 BCE, the cuneiform script underwent significant orthographic changes, and transformed from a script of Sumerian speakers to a script of Akkadian speakers. The decline of the Isin...
Peeters, 2019. — 609 p. — (Archives royales de Mari 33). Le tome XXXIII des Archives royales de Mari avait pour but de reunir les textes qui ont trait aux premieres annees du regne de Zimri-Lim, le dernier roi de Mari. Vu la quantite du materiel epigraphique a disposition, il doit etre en fait complete par un tome XXXIV. Ce premier volume fait apparaitre les figures politiques...
SOAS, University of London, 2019. — 340 p. My thesis is an examination of the sentence structures of Old Babylonian omen protases and apodoses, and of their information-value. I have used Arabic grammatical theory and seven basic grammatical tools that remained theoretical constants throughout the development of the tradition to frame my approach: a system divided into three...
University of Cambridge, 2021. — 268 p. This dissertation is an analysis of the composition of the royal inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 BCE). It is divided into seven chapters. The first two chapters are devoted to the identification of the compositional principles. In the first chapter, we begin with the composition of the extant twenty-nine multi-sectional...
Universität Tübingen, 2014. — 414 p. Die Rechtsurkunden aus den verschiedenen Regionen und Perioden des Alten Orients wurden in zahlreichen Monographien und Aufsätzen anhand von sprachlichen, juristischen und sozialen Aspekten untersucht. Was die Rechtsurkunden aus Susa, nicht zuletzt auch die Kaufurkunden, anbetrifft, so wurden sie in mehreren Bänden der Reihe „Mémoires de la...
University of Oxford, 1996. — 284 p. Neo-Babylonian (NB) was the last surviving dialect of the Semitic language known as Akkadian and it was still being used for the compilation of records at the beginning of our era. Many thousands of NB economic and legal documents and letters exist, particularly from the sixth century B.C., yet the language is still to be studied, as the...
SOAS, University of London, 2013. — 270 p. This thesis investigates within a generative framework a cluster of morphological and syntactic facts in the Old Babylonian variety of Akkadian, whose common property, despite many divergences, is the occurrence of structurally reduced nominal constituents. Akkadian nominals, whilst in their normal morphosyntactic form fairly rich both...
Leiden University, 2018. — 347 p. The aklu documents are accounts of the commodities like beer, flour, sheep. But usually we can not find any verb such as "received" or "gave" in them. Therefore the exact meaning of the documents remains to be determined. In this study, I made a profile of the persons appear in the documents according to their seal impressions. By observing the...
Mohr Siebrek, 2023. — 770 p. — (Orientalische Religionen in Der Antike 54). This volume is the first in a planned edition of the complete corpus of ancient Mesopotamian god lists. It contains the lists "An = Anum" (including its forerunners) and "An = Anu sa ameli" along with several similar, more-or-less fragmentary lists. The god list An = Anum was, with its ca. 2000 entries,...
Mohr Siebrek, 2014. — 547 p. — (Orientalische Religionen in Der Antike 12). The Marduk epic (Enuma Eli) is probably the most significant mythical text of Babylonian culture and tells of the elevation of the god Marduk to absolute ruler over all the gods and the world. Gosta Gabriel provides the first complete and comprehensive interpretation of the text, analyzing it on its own...
The Catholic University of America, 2020. — 548 p. In recent years a growing realization has coalesced among comparative Semitists that the ventive/energic verbal endings evidenced throughout the various Semitic languages should be related to each other as retentions of an ancestral Proto-Semitic (PS) ventive/energic verbal morpheme. While the exact form of the morpheme and its...
National University of Ireland - Galway, 2023. — 82 p. Figurative language is, in essence, the act of synthesising disparate concepts into one communicative image. Rather than merely a poetic technique, this process is fundamental in general understanding and expression of abstract or new ideas. Moreover, metaphorical and non-literal statements echo and signal the cultural...
École pratique des hautes études - EPHE Paris, 2015. — 589 p. The present research seeks to analyze Sumero-Akkadian literary bilingualism in 1st millennium B.C. texts from the point of view of the scribes’ translation methods. In order to do so, I have used recent research in Translation Studies, a field in which different translation methods are analyzed and explained. I have...