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  2. Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature - Wikipedia

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    Sumerian cuneiform, ca. 26th century BCE. The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL) is an online digital library of texts and translations of Sumerian literature that was created by a now-completed project based at the Oriental Institute of the University of Oxford. [1]

  3. Sumerian language - Wikipedia

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    Sumerian (Sumerian: 𒅴𒂠, romanized: eme-gir 15 [a], lit. ''native language'' [1]) was the language of ancient Sumer. It is one of the oldest attested languages, dating back to at least 2900 BC. It is a local language isolate that was native to and spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, in the area that is modern-day Iraq.

  4. Sumerian literature - Wikipedia

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    Sumerian poems demonstrate basic elements of poetry, including lines, imagery, and metaphor. Humans, gods, talking animals, and inanimate objects were all incorporated as characters. Suspense and humor were both incorporated into Sumerian stories. These stories were primarily shared orally, though they were also recorded by scribes.

  5. Decipherment of cuneiform - Wikipedia

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    Sumerian was the last and most ancient language to be deciphered. Sale of a number of fields, probably from Isin, c. 2600 BC. 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]

  6. Akkadian language - Wikipedia

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    Awīl-um man. NOM šū 3SG. MASC šarrāq thief. ABSOLUTUS Awīl-um šū šarrāq man.NOM 3SG.MASC thief. ABSOLUTUS This man is a thief (2) šarrum king. NOM. RECTUS lā NEG šanān oppose. INF. ABSOLUTUS šarrum lā šanān king.NOM. RECTUS NEG oppose.INF. ABSOLUTUS The king who cannot be rivaled The status constructus is more common by far, and has a much wider range of applications. It is ...

  7. Cuneiform (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    The final proposal for Unicode encoding of the script was submitted by two cuneiform scholars working with an experienced Unicode proposal writer in June 2004. [4] The base character inventory is derived from the list of Ur III signs compiled by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative of UCLA based on the inventories of Miguel Civil, Rykle Borger (2003), and Robert Englund.

  8. Cuneiform - Wikipedia

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    The Sumerian cuneiform script had on the order of 1,000 distinct signs, or about 1,500 if variants are included. This number was reduced to about 600 by the 24th century BC and the beginning of Akkadian records. Not all Sumerian signs are used in Akkadian texts, and not all Akkadian signs are used in Hittite.

  9. List of Assyriologists - Wikipedia

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    Thorkild Jacobsen (Danish, 1904—1993), director of the Chicago Oriental Institute and professor of Assyriology at Harvard University, produced an English translation of the Sumerian King List. Liane Jakob-Rost (German, born 1928), focussed on editing and publishing cuneiform sources in the collection of the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin.

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