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Near East - Languages

Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language
edited by John A Halloran
With 6,400 entries, this is the most complete available lexicon of ancient Sumerian vocabulary. It replaces version 3 of the author's Sumerian Lexicon, which has served an audience of over 380,000 visitors at the web site www.sumerian.org since 1999. This published version adds over 2,600 new entries, and corrects or expands many of the previous entries. Also, following the express wish of a majority of online lexicon users, it has ...
Paperback. Price GB £50.00
Hardback. Price GB £70.00

Languages of Iraq, Ancient and Modern
edited by Nicholas Postgate
For all five thousand years of its history Iraq has been home to a mixture of languages, spoken and written, and the same is true today. In November 2003, to celebrate the country's rich diversity and long history as a centre of civilisation the British School presented a series of talks by experts on each of the major languages of Iraq and their history, and this illustrated volume brings these now to a wider public. Iraq's languages come from ...
Paperback. Price GB £15.00

Kerkenes Special Studies 1: Sculpture and Inscriptions from the Monumental Entrance to the Palatial complex at Kerkenes, Turkey
by Catherine M. Draycott and Geoffrey D. Summers, with contribution by Claude Brixhe and Turkish summary by G. Bike Yazicioglu
Between 2003 and 2005, various remains of sculpture and fragments of an important inscription in the Old Phrygian language were unexpectedly found during excavations at the sixth century BC walled city on Kerkenes Mountain in the highlands of Central Turkey. These unusual finds have a significant role to play in the interpretation of the site and the interpretation of Phrygian history and culture. Large-scale sculpture in the round and small ...
Hardback. Price GB £58.00

Proceedings of the 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, July 18-22, 2005
edited by Robert D. Biggs, Jennie Myers, and Martha T. Roth
(Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 62, OIP 2008)
Paperback. Price GB £50.00

Studies Presented to Robert D. Biggs, June 4, 2004
edited by Martha T. Roth, Walter Farber, Matthew W. Stolper and Paula von Bechtolsheim
Robert D Biggs joined the staff of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD) in 1963 after receiving his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. In June 2004, he celebrated his 70th birthday and retired from the University of Chicago as Professor of Assyriology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; his service to the CAD, however, will continue until the final volume appears. To acknowledge and honour his forty-one years of ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00

Studies in Semitic and Afroasiatic Linguistics Presented to Gene B. Gragg
edited by Cynthia L Miller
Professor Gene B Gragg's unbounded intellectual curiosity and rigorous linguistic method have served as a bridge between the often disparate fields of Semitic philology and linguistics, between the various sub-disciplines that study the ancient Near East, between the study of ancient languages by means of scribal corpora and modern languages by means of language helpers, and between users and developers of computer programs for linguistic and ...
Paperback. Price GB £40.00

Dictionary of the Lycian Language
by H. Craig Melchert
Paperback. Price GB £30.00

The Elements of Hittite
by Theo Van Den Hout
This new course offers in ten lessons a comprehensive introduction to the grammar of the Hittite language with ample exercises both in transliteration and in cuneiform. It includes a separate section of paradigms, a grammatical index, as well as a list of every cuneiform sign used in the book. A full glossary can be found at the back. The book has been designed so that the cuneiform is not essential and can be left out of any course if so ...
Paperback. Price GB £24.99
Hardback. Price GB £60.00

Complete Babylonian
by Martin Worthington
This volume in the "teach yourself" series, aims to do just that, to give the reader an independent grounding in the Babylonian language. It is thus much more descriptive and explanatory than a standard primer and contains numerous exercises and helpful summaries which serve to make learning less painful. Although it may be pretty comprehensive as regards grammar and syntax, it is worth noting that all text is transliterated, and it does not ...
Paperback. Price GB £21.99

Prehistory of the Armenians Vol.3: Anatolian Hieroglyphic Inscriptions of the Proto-Armenians
by Gabriel Soultanian
This volume contains further ancient hieroglyphic inscriptions from southeastern Turkey. These are translated and annotated in full, and are accompanied by a comprehensive glossary. Also included is an analysis of the language of the inscriptions, which forms a bridge between the ancient Indo-European language and Classical Armenian. 221p b/w illus (Bennett & Bloom 2009)
Hardback. Price GB £45.00