Language & Texts

ISBN: 9780521115643
Published by : Cambridge University Press
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 a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780521133005
Published by : Cambridge University Press
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 a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780691147260
Published by : Princeton University Press
James Pritchard's classic anthologies of the ancient Near East have introduced generations of readers to its texts and artefacts. Now these two enduring works have been combined and integrated into one convenient and richly illustrated volume, ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780300169591
Published by : Yale University Press
This new volume presents facsimile copies of over two hundred previously unpublished Babylonian letters and documents written in cuneiform script. The texts, dating from the sixth century B.C., mainly originate from the archives of the Eanna te... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780520267022
Published by : University of California Press
In this volume, based on his Sather Classical Lectures delivered at Berkeley in 2005, Roger Bagnall here argues that ordinary people in the ancient world used writing in their daily lives to a far greater extent than has been thought. He examin... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004212428
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This book examines a collection of twenty-two literary letters and related compositions the Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany (SEpM) studied as part of the Old Babylonian Sumerian scribal curriculum, in an attempt to better understand the educat... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004185937
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
The aim of this weighty volume is to move beyond the strict confines of conventional scholarship and to explore new avenues of research, including the examination of the place of the findings from the Judean Desert in their contemporary context... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923813
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements
Volume: 1
This is the first volume in a new series, Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements, designed to augment and supplement the work of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary project. Future volumes will continue to bring tablets written in the Hittite langua... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923783
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Assyrian Dictionary
Volume: 20
The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, usually with a full and idiomat... .... Learn More