Language & Texts

ISBN: 9780918986054
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Chicago's Assyrian Dictionary is complete. The last of the
twenty one volumes has just been published marking the completion
of a project that has been going over fifty years. All volumes are available individually, but for th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781905739349
Published by : Archaeopress
Introduction: The development of Arabic as a written language (Christian Julien Robin); Ancient Arabia and the written word (M.C.A. Macdonald); Mount Nebo, Jabal Ramm, and the status of Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Old Arabic... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700166030
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Sitzungsberichte der Phil.-Hist. Klasse
Volume: 787
Indo-European studies began with work undertaken by Friedrich Schlegel (1808). A few decades later, Franz Bopp published the first introduction to the new subject with Part 1 of his Comparative Grammar (1833). Since then Indo-European studies... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700168034
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Sitzungsberichte der Phil.-Hist. Klasse
Volume: 798
The present monograph examines appositional collocations in older Indo-European languages, a topic which has remained virtually unstudied in Indo- European linguistics since Eduard Schwyzer's Zur Apposition (1947). Part One is devoted to... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923769
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: ORIENTAL INSTITUTE MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
Volume: 32
Writing, the ability to make language visible and permanent, is one of humanity's greatest inventions. This book presents current perspectives on the origins and development of writing in Mesopotamia and Egypt, providing an overview of each wri... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780903472289
Published by : British Institute for the Study of Iraq
This volume is intended as a tribute to the memory of the Sumerologist Jeremy Black, who died in 2004. The Sumerian phrase zà-mí-zu dug-ga-àm, 'Your praise is sweet', is commonly addressed to a deity at the close of a work of Sumerian literatu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783700165439
Published by : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Series: Sitzungsberichte der Phil.-Hist. Klasse
Volume: 789
The collective work of three authors on Noms propres syriaques d´origine iranienne is here published as a new fascicle of the Iranisches Personennamenbuch within a New Series called Iranische Onomastik . The authors have collected all Syriac ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923578
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 135
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 ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923547
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization
Volume: 62
Selection of papers and posters presented at the 51st meeting of the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale - International Congress of Assyriology & Near Eastern Archaeology, organized by Martha T. Roth, Jennie Myers, Walter Farber in 2005. .... Learn More