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The Hill Mari alphabet uses all of the letters of the Russian alphabet, plus 4 more: ...
Mari (Cuneiform: 𒈠𒌷𒆠, ma-ri ki, modern Tell Hariri; Arabic: تل حريري) was an ancient Semitic city-state in modern-day Syria. Its remains form a tell 11 kilometers north-west of Abu Kamal on the Euphrates River western bank, some 120 kilometers southeast of Deir ez-Zor. It flourished as a trade center and hegemonic state between ...
Other letters shed light on divinity at Mari and in the ancient Near East. Letters from the epistolary archive include fascinating information about divination, gods, and even descriptions of ancient dreams. According to the tablets, a prophetic dream was had, a letter would be sent to a diviner who would perform extispicy to confirm the ...
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A main target for expansion was the city of Mari, which controlled the caravan route between Anatolia and Mesopotamia. King Yahdun-Lim of Mari (fl. c. 1800 BC – c. 1700 BC) was assassinated by his own servants (possibly on Shamshi-Adad I's orders.) The heir to the throne of Mari, Zimri-Lim, was forced to flee to Yamhad. Shamshi-Adad I seized ...
The other texts include 150 tablets describing the Ugaritic cult and rituals, 100 letters of correspondence, [10] a very small number of legal texts (Akkadian is considered to have been the contemporary language of law), [11] and hundreds of administrative or economic texts.
The modified Cyrillic letter for the velar nasal (ŋ) combines the Cyrillic letter Н н with and Г г , where the rightmost post of Н is conflated with the vertical post of Г : Ҥ, ҥ . Although Hill Mari has this sound too, this character is only used in Meadow Mari.
1780 BC: Akkadian Mari letters, [28] including the Epic of Zimri-Lim; 1754 BC: Akkadian Code of Hammurabi stele; 1750 BC: Akkadian Agushaya Hymn; Late 18th century BC: Hittite Anitta text [29] 1700 BC: Akkadian Atra-Hasis [30] 1700 BC: Egyptian Westcar Papyrus [31] 1650 BC: Egyptian Ipuwer Papyrus; 1650 BC: Sumerian Dialogue between a Man and ...