[PDF] Sumerian Grammatical Texts Vol 12 Classic Reprint eBook

Author : Stephen Langdon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780331770735

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Excerpt from Sumerian Grammatical Texts, Vol. 12 When the whole land of Sumer and Akkad was united, and Babylon was a new capital for a new race, the religious signifi cance of Sumer survived, and dead Sumerian language was used exclusively for all sort of religious compositions and records. Previous to the usurpations of Marduk of Babylon, and his satellite Nabu, the Semite Akkadians could boast onlya great sanctuary of the sun god of Sippar. Sippar seems to have been the early center of Akkadian influence. The city gave its proper name to the Euphrates, which was known as the river of Sippar to the Sumerians. All the cities of kis, Upi, Babylon are located in the same region. South of Nippur began Sumer, or later on the kingdom of the sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Stephen Langdon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781331916475

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Excerpt from Sumerian Grammatical Texts, Vol. 12 Reconstructing ancient history in Babylonia before B.C. 2000 up to 4000, and even to the kings after the flood, has become possible, thanks to the material provided by the Nippur excavations. A summary classification of unpublished tablets in the Museum collections has led to the discovery of fragments of historical import. They have been collected in the present volume. Prominent among them are: the chronological fragments, the portrait of King Ibi-Sin, and his official despatches at the time of the revolt of Isbi-irra, the founder of the Isin dynasty. They will be studied in turn along with less important, or comparatively more recent, fragments of the Cassite and Neo-Babylonian period. Due allowance should be made for further corrections to difficult Sumerian texts of damaged fragments. The main enlightening fact is that we gain a sure footing for more than two thousand years of history before the foundation of the first Babylonian empire - the empire of Hammurabi, when Abraham was a citizen of Ur in Chaldæa - a fact that brings the early Babylonian to the level of, if not before, the Egyptian chronology. Indeed it was not a Babylonian, but a Sumero-Akkadian chronology. And the problem of origins is furthermore complicated with a racial problem. Among the 11 royal cities that had in turn the honor of governing the land between the actual region of Bagdad and the sea, some like Kis, Upi, Akkad (Maer, Isin), belong to Akkadians a Semitic race; some like Uruk, Ur, Adab (Hamazi, Larsa), to a non-Semitic race: the Sumerians. The first known kingdom was the Semitic kingdom of Kis. But all civilization, art, religion looked toward the Sumerian south as its cradle. The Sumerian land that extended for about 150 miles from Nippur to Eridu on the sea was the land of origins. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Stephen Langdon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1512820784

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Dietz Otto Edzard
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9047403401

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It seems safe to say that this Sumerian Grammar by Professor D.O. Edzard will become the new classic reference in the field. It is an up-to-date, reliable guide to the language of the Sumerians, the inventors of cuneiform writing in the late 4th millennium B.C., and thus essential contributors to the high cultural standard of the whole of Mesopotamia and beyond. Following traditional lines, the Grammar describes general characteristics, origins, linguistic environment, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, and phraseology. Due attention is given to the symbiosis with Semitic Akkadian, with which Sumerian was to form a veritable linguistic area. With lucid explanations of all technical linguistic theory. Each transliteration carries its English translation.

Author : Stephen Langdon
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 2015-02-08
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ISBN : 9781294936664

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Author : Arno Poebel
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781104765590

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