Author : N.J.C. Kouwenberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 947 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9004472843
A Grammar of Old Assyrian is a grammar of the earliest stage of Assyrian (1900-1700 BC), a Semitic language that is one of the main varieties of Akkadian, and describes the language of a community of Assyrian merchants living in Anatolia.
Author : N. J. C. Kouwenberg
Publisher : Handbook of Oriental Studies
Page : 895 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004340961
A Grammar of Old Assyrian' describes the language contained in a very large corpus of cuneiform tablets mainly found in Anatolia in the middle of Turkey and dating to ca 1900-1700 BC. These tablets come from the archives of a community of Assyrian merchants who conducted a long-distance trade between Assyria and Anatolia and eventually settled in Anatolia. Alongside Babylonian, Assyrian is one of the main branches of Akkadian, the Semitic language spoken in Mesopotamia (roughly present-day Iraq) in the third, second and first millennium BC, and Old Assyrian is its oldest attested stage. Old Assyrian is one of the oldest and largest corpora of texts in any Semitic language.
Author : Samuel A. B. Mercer
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780486428154
A passport to an important language of the ancient world, this grammar presents an introduction to Assyrian, a linguistic relative of Hebrew that derives from the northern group of Semitic languages. Both simple and well supplied with exercises, the text divides grammar and syntax into chapter-by-chapter lessons.
Author : Archibald Henry Sayce
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN :
Author : Samuel A B Mercer
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category :
ISBN : 9789354211768
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author : Martin Worthington
Publisher : Teach Yourself
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1444132172
Do you want to engage with Babylonian culture and literature in the original language?The course will introduce you to a fascinating world of gods and demons, heroes and kings.The readings are drawn from myths, letters, law-codes, medical incantations, and other authentic, ancient writings. The language is presented in the Roman alphabet, with an explanation of cuneiform script, and the main features of Assyrian - cognate with Babylonian - are also explained. Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and interactive features in this book from Teach Yourself, the No. 1 brand in language learning.
Author : Eckart Frahm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 36,80 MB
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1118325230
A Companion to Assyria is a collection of original essays on ancient Assyria written by key international scholars. These new scholarly contributions have substantially reshaped contemporary understanding of society and life in this ancient civilization. The only detailed up-to-date introduction providing a scholarly overview of ancient Assyria in English within the last fifty years Original essays written and edited by a team of respected Assyriology scholars from around the world An in-depth exploration of Assyrian society and life, including the latest thought on cities, art, religion, literature, economy, and technology, and political and military history
Author : Juan-Pablo Vita
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1677 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004445218
History of the Akkadian Language offers a detailed chronological survey of the oldest known Semitic language and one of history’s longest written records. The outcome is presented in 26 chapters written by 25 leading authors.
Author : Jacob Jan de Ridder
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : 9783447109796
The Middle Assyrian period (ca. 1500-1000 BCE) is characterized by the transformation of the former city state of Ashur into an expansive empire. Over the last couple of decennia, the text corpus has grown considerably due to many archaeological excavations of archives in Syria. This grammatical description of Middle Assyrian seeks to improve our knowledge of the language of these texts. It takes into account recently published texts, including the archives from Tell As-SeH Hamad, Tell Huwira, Tell Sabi Abyad and Tell Taban. The result serves as a long overdue supplementation to Mayer's Untersuchungen zur Grammatik des Mittelassyrischen (1971). The monograph consists of an introduction to the corpus and its historical context, followed by discussions on orthography, phonology, morphology and syntax. Non-Assyrian influences on orthography and grammar are also subject of discussion. In addition, comparisons are made between the different stages of the Assyrian language in order to put Middle Assyrian into context of its intermediate stage between Old Assyrian (ca. 1900-1700) and Neo-Assyrian (ca. 1000-600). Thus, the monograph is aimed at Assyriologists as well as Semitists.
Author : N. J. C. Kouwenberg
Publisher :
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Akkadian language
ISBN : 9783963270642
This book is meant as an aid to the reading and interpretation of Old Assyrian texts for students who are already familiar with Akkadian, in particular with Old Babylonian. Accordingly, it focuses on those aspects in which Old Assyrian grammar and lexicon are different from Babylonian and on the specific problems that Old Assyrian texts might pose to students of Babylonian. It is essentially a spin-off from N.J.C. Kouwenberg's long-standing work on the grammar of Old Assyrian, which is reflected in "A Grammar of Old Assyrian" (Leiden: Brill, 2017). It comprises a complete grammar (with a focus on phonology and morphology, including a sign list and extensive paradigms), a glossary (with a focus on Old Assyrian peculiarities), and a selection of sample editions of texts. The introduction is supposed to make the Old Assyrian texts more accessible to anyone interested, and thus contribute to an increase in the study of the archives of the Assyrian merchants in Anatolia. They acquaint us not only with one of the oldest large corpora of any Semitic language, but also with aspects of Ancient Near Eastern history, economy and society that are in many respects unique.
