Language & Texts
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Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon [Hardback]
Alwin Kloekhorst (Author)
£215.00ISBN: 9789004160927
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Hittite is the oldest attested Indo-European language and therefore of paramount importance for comparative Indo-European linguistics. Although in the last few decades our knowledge of the synchronic and historical linguistics of Hittite has p... .... Learn More -
Kerkenes Special Studies 1: Sculpture and Inscriptions from the Monumental Entrance to the Palatial complex at Kerkenes, Turkey [Hardback]
Catherine M. Draycott (Author);G.D. Summers (Author)
£58.00ISBN: 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 -
Proceedings of the 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, July 18-22, 2005. [Paperback]
Robert D Biggs (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9781885923547
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization
Volume: 62
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Studies in Semitic and Afroasiatic Linguistics Presented to Gene B Gragg [Paperback]
Cynthia L Miller (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9781885923417
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization
Volume: 60
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... .... Learn More -
From the Workshop of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary: Studies Presented to Robert D Biggs [Paperback]
Martha T Roth (Author); Matthew Stopler (Author); Walter Farber (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781885923448
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Assyriological Studies
Volume: 27
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 ... .... Learn More -
Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel [Paperback]
Richard J. Clifford (Author)
£18.00ISBN: 9781589832190
Published by : Society of Biblical Literature
This volume offers a rich collection of essays by distinguished Assyriologists and biblicists on the social, intellectual, and literary setting of Mesopotamian wisdom; on specific wisdom texts; and on key themes common to both Mesopotamian and ... .... Learn More -
Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature [Hardback]
William M. Schniedewind (Author);Joel H. Hunt (Author)
£50.00ISBN: 9780521879330
Published by : Cambridge University Press
A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of the culture, literature, and religion of this ancient Sem... .... Learn More -
Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature [Paperback]
William M. Schniedewind (Author);Joel H. Hunt (Author)
£22.99ISBN: 9780521704939
Published by : Cambridge University Press
A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of the culture, literature, and religion of this ancient Sem... .... Learn More -
Manuscripts arameens du Wadi Daliyeh et la Samarie vers 450-332 av.J.C. [Hardback]
Jan Dusek (Author)
£170.00ISBN: 9789004161788
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This book deals with the manuscripts from the Wadi Daliyeh (Samaria Papyri) written in Aramaic in the fourth century B.C.E. in the city of Samaria, in the last decades of the Persian period. The book contains a complete edition of the Wadi Dali... .... Learn More -
Catalogue of the Western Asiatic Seals in the British Museum, Stamp Seals III: Impressions of Stamp Seals on Cuneiform Tablets, Clay Bullae, and Jar Handles [Hardback]
Ann Searight (Author);T. C. Mitchell (Author)
£140.00ISBN: 9789004156159
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
This volume publishes drawings of the impressions of stamp seals preserved on Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform tablets, and other clay objects in the collections of The British Museum. The majority of these seals bears precise dates, ranging f... .... Learn More