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The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD) or The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is a nine-decade project at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute (now known as the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures) to compile a dictionary of the Akkadian language and its dialects.
Ea A = nâqu, a sign list with the format: Sumerian gloss–Sumerian sign–Akkadian translation which eventually grew to 8-tablets and a line-count of around 2,400 by the Neo-Babylonian period[MSL XIV [p 2] [14] Ebla syllabaries, vocabulary and sign list, c. 2400 BC, one of the syllabories is an adaption of LU A to local Syrian vernacular
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The Akkadian Empire, established by Sargon of Akkad, introduced the Akkadian language (the "language of Akkad") as a written language, adapting Sumerian cuneiform orthography for the purpose. During the Middle Bronze Age (Old Assyrian and Old Babylonian period), the language virtually displaced Sumerian, which is assumed to have been extinct as ...
a dictionary (13th century BCE) in Sumerian, Akkadian and Hurrian. a literary text in Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite; it was imported from Hattusa. [3] the Achaemenid royal inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Akkadian (Babylonian dialect); it allowed the decipherment of cuneiform script
the Akkadian nominal stem il-meaning 'god' or 'goddess', derived from the Semitic ʾil-the god Anum (An) the Akkadian word šamû, meaning 'sky' the syllables an and il (from the Akkadian word god: An or Il, or from gods with these names) a preposition meaning "at" or "to" a determinative indicating that the following word is the name of a god
The first known Sumerian-Akkadian bilingual tablet dates from the reign of Rimush. Louvre Museum AO 5477. The top column is in Sumerian, the bottom column is its translation in Akkadian. [44] [45] The decipherment of Babylonian ultimately led to the decipherment of Akkadian, which was a close predecessor of Babylonian.
Cuneiform is one of the earliest systems of writing, emerging in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BC.. Archaic versions of cuneiform writing, including the Ur III (and earlier, ED III cuneiform of literature such as the Barton Cylinder) are not included due to extreme complexity of arranging them consistently and unequivocally by the shape of their signs; [1] see Early Dynastic Cuneiform ...