Digital Hammurabi Press, 2020. — 271 p. Sumerian is the world's oldest written language, but the ability to read it is restricted to the lucky few - until now! Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian: An Introduction for Complete Beginners is written specifically for people with no training in ancient languages, letting the reader learn Sumerian without having to learn grammatical...
Deuxième édition, revue et augmentée., 2023. — 1684 p. The Glossaire sumérien–français, principalement des textes littéraires paléobabyloniens (Sumerian – French Glossary, Primarily Based on Old Babylonian Literary Texts) endeavours to fill one of the most glaring gaps in modern Sumerology by providing a much-needed printed glossary that satisfies scientific standards. The...
Logogram, 2006. — 318 p With 6,400 entries, this is the most complete available lexicon of ancient Sumerian vocabulary. This published version adds over 2,600 new entries, and corrects or expands many of the previous entries. Also, following the express wish of a majority of online lexicon users, it has merged together and sorted the logogram words and the compound words into...
Logogram, 2006. — 338 p With 6,400 entries, this is the most complete available lexicon of ancient Sumerian vocabulary. This published version adds over 2,600 new entries, and corrects or expands many of the previous entries. Also, following the express wish of a majority of online lexicon users, it has merged together and sorted the logogram words and the compound words into...
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 2017. — 331 p. No son muchas las gramáticas dedicadas a la lengua sumeria, y especialmente en nuestra lengua. 'Nueva gramática de Sumerio' es un manual concebido al estilo clásico que sigue el método deductivo, en el que a unos principios teóricos ilustrados con una serie de ejemplos les sigue una sección práctica constituida por un vocabulario...
Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. — 180 p. — (Barcino Monographica Orientalia 14). Miquel Civil (Sabadell, 1926 - Chicago, 2019) va escriure aquest Esbós de gramàtica sumèria en una estada a Barcelona i el va utilitzar a les classes de llengua sumèria que va impartir a l’Institut del Pròxim Orient Antic de la Universitat de Barcelona durant el curs 2002-2003....
STYX Publications, 1993. — 72 p. — (Library of oriental texts 1). 'Gilgamesh and Akka' is a short narative poem in standard literary Sumerian. The protagonist of the tale is Gilgamesh, lord of Uruk. It is the story of Uruk's war of liberation from the hegemony of Kish. Katz's analysis of the literary structure and historical value of the texts sheds new light on the...
Brill, 2011. — 392 p. — (Cuneiform Monographs 42). This book examines a collection of twenty-two literary letters and related compositions – the Sumerian Epistolary Miscellany (SEpM) – studied as part of the Old Babylonian Sumerian scribal curriculum, in an attempt to better understand the education system at this time. The author includes discussion of the nature of the...
Eisenbrauns, 2019. — 160 p. — (CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology 38). The first in a series of volumes publishing the Sumerian literary texts in the Schøyen Collection, this book makes available, for the first time, editions of seventeen cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 2000 BCE and containing works of Sumerian religious poetry. Edited, translated,...
Ediciones Clasicas, 1998. — 296 p. Los hablantes de la lengua Sumeria habitaron la zona meridional de la Antigua Mesopotnmia por donde se deslizaban en medio de lentos e interminables meandros los ríos Tigris y Éufrates antes de desembocaren las aguas del Golfo Pérsico. Un rosario de ciudades se establecieron a lo largo del curso de estos ríos y en ellas floreció la...
Styx Publications, 2000. — 128 p. — (Cuneiform monographs 19). This book contains an edition of an important Sumerian literary work, the 'Death of Gilgamesh' (am gal-e ba-nú), which was last published by the late S.N. Kramer, in 1944. An Iraqi excavation uncovered important new fragments in Meturan-Tall Haddad. These are published here for the first time. The Nippur fragments...
Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. — 730 p. — (Barcino Monographica Orientalia 7). Miguel (or Miquel) Civil’s oeuvre has been unanimously acclaimed by the entire Assyriological community, from his first contributions in the 1960s to the most recent publications today. This volume gathers together his principal articles, which have been published in the most...
Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1962. — 180 p. "Materialen zum sumerischen Lexikon" ist eine mehrbändige Reihe, deren Hauptteil der große deutsche Assyriologe und Sumerer Benno Landsberger (1890-1968) erarbeitet hat.
J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1908. — 472 p. The science of Philology does not consist primarily of enumerating and arranging material, but rather of that more important exactness which weighs probabilities and seeks truth amid puzzling uncertainties. Bewildering uncertainties are plentiful in the Sumerian material which we now have at our disposal, dating from the earliest...
Styx Publications, 2000. — 470 p. — (Cuneiform monographs 17). Gudea of Lagash, who ruled at the end of the third millennium B.C., wanted to be remembered as a temple builder. An extensive narrative inscribed on two huge clay cylinders, one of the longest and best preserved Sumerian texts, recounts his construction of the temple of Ningirsu, Lagash's patron deity. More than...
Gorgias Press, 2007. — 99 p. — (Analecta Gorgiana 30). Vanderburgh’s noted study of the Sumerian hymns to Bel, Sin, Adad, and Tammuz in the British Museum is an excellent example of one of the early attempts to grapple with the difficulties of the Sumerian language. Each hymn is presented in transliteration and translation, and these are accompanied by the author’s own commentary.
Eisenbrauns, 2021. — 304 p. — (CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology 42). In this volume, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman investigate how Akkadian speakers learned Sumerian during the Old Babylonian period in areas outside major cities. Despite the fact that it was a dead language at the time, Sumerian was considered a crucial part of scribal...
Walter de Gruyter, 2014. — 430 p. — (Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie 10). Alhena Gadotti offers a much needed new edition of the Sumerian composition Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, last published by Aaron Shaffer in his 1963 doctoral dissertation. Since then, several new manuscripts have come to light, prompting not only a new edition...
Yale University Press, 1968. — 120 p. — (Yale Near Eastern Researches 3). Cuneiform literature has long been stigmatized as anonymous, or at best pseudonymous, and this in marked contrast to the literature of the ancient world generally, which placed a high value on attribution, authentic or merely traditional, whether we look at Egyptian literature, or Hittite, Canaanite,...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 126 p. — (Yale oriental series. Babylonian texts 22). Seventy-two cuneiform Sumerian literary texts from the Yale Babylonian Collection are featured in this volume of the Yale Oriental Series. The long-awaited twenty-second volume in the Yale Oriental Series provides reproductions of over one-hundred plates drawn from the Yale Babylonian...
Zaphon, 2020. — 279 p. — (dubsar: Altorientalistische Publikationen/Publications on the Ancient Near East 12). M. Krebernik and J.J.W. Lisman offer the first comprehensive score edition of and the first attempt at an integral translation of the Early Dynastic Sumerian hymns, known in the literature as the Zame Hymns (za-mi), published by R.D. Biggs in 1974 in his 'Inscriptions...
Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1955. — 254 S. Das Syllabar A Das Vokabular Sª Das Vokabular Sb Berichtigungen und Nachträge zu MSL II Indices zu MSL II
Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1937. — 258 S. "Materialen zum sumerischen Lexikon" ist eine mehrbändige Reihe, deren Hauptteil der große deutsche Assyriologe und Sumerer Benno Landsberger (1890-1968) erarbeitet hat.
The University Museum of Pennsylvania, 1917. — 160 p. — (Publications of the Babylonian Section 10.2). Under the title SUMERIAN LITURGICAL TEXTS the author has collected the material of the Nippur collection which belonged to the various public song services of the Sumerian and Babylonian temples. In this category he has included the epical and theological poems called lag-sal....
The University Museum of Pennsylvania, 1919. — 157 p. — (Publications of the Babylonian Section 10.4). With the publication of the texts included in this the last part of volume X, Sumerian Liturgical and Epical Texts, the writer arrives at a definite stage in the interpretation of the religious material in the Nippur collection. Having been privileged to examine the collection...
British Institute for the Study of Iraq, 2010. — 472 p. This volume is intended as a tribute to the memory of the Sumerologist Jeremy Black, who died in 2004. The Sumerian phrase, ‘Your praise is sweet’ is commonly addressed to a deity at the close of a work of Sumerian literature. The scope of the thirty contributions, from Sumerology to the nineteenth-century rediscovery of...
Walter de Gruyter, 2016. — 272 S. — (Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie 12.2). Das vorliegende Buch stellt einen Versuch dar, die Lücke in der Geschichte des Sumerischen zu schließen, die bislang zwischen den umfangreichen, gut untersuchten Textcorpora des späten dritten und frühen zweiten Jahrtausends v. Chr. und den relativ wenigen Vorkommen von...
The University of Chicago Press, 1974. — 324 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 99). In this volume are published all of the cuneiform tablets excavated at Tell Abu Salabikh in 1963 and 1965 with the exception of a very few fragments considered illegible or utterly worthless. All other tablets are represented by a copy, by a photograph, or by both. Except for the copies of...
The University of Chicago Press, 1929. — 126 p. — (Oriental Institute Publications 11). A very rich and various feast is presented to students of the Sumerian and Akkadian vocabularies in this large volume of one hundred and twenty-six pages. The material is the whole of the remaining fragments of native philology recovered from the ruins of Nippur and now preserved in the...
The University Museum of Pennsylvania, 1922. — 214 p. — (Publications of the Babylonian Section 8.2). The documents here published belong to the large class of contract literature. Those in the first part of the book complete the publication of such Nippur tablets that have thus far been discovered in the Museum collections. As with the other texts of this kind, published by...
Yale University Press, 1954. — 170 p. — (Babylonian inscriptions from the collection of James B. Nies 9). All of the five hundred and thirty-five texts published in this volume, save one, are a part of the James B. Nies Babylonian Collection at Yale University. The single exception comes from the Yale University Babylonian Collection. These documents originated in the early...
Eisenbrauns, 2020. — 428 p. — (CUSAS: Cornell University Studies in Assyriology and Sumerology 39). Judging from the sheer amount of textual material left to us, the rulers of ancient Ur were above all else concerned with keeping track of their poorest subjects, who made up the majority of the population under their jurisdiction. Year after year, administrators recorded, in...
Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1956. — 212 S. Emesal-vocabulary Old Babylonian Grammatical Texts Neobabylonian Grammatical Texts, Nachträge zu MSL III
Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1951. — 184 S. "Materialen zum sumerischen Lexikon" ist eine mehrbändige Reihe, deren Hauptteil der große deutsche Assyriologe und Sumerer Benno Landsberger (1890-1968) erarbeitet hat.
Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1957. — 258 S. "Materialen zum sumerischen Lexikon" ist eine mehrbändige Reihe, deren Hauptteil der große deutsche Assyriologe und Sumerer Benno Landsberger (1890-1968) erarbeitet hat.
Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1958. — 164 S. "Materialen zum sumerischen Lexikon" ist eine mehrbändige Reihe, deren Hauptteil der große deutsche Assyriologe und Sumerer Benno Landsberger (1890-1968) erarbeitet hat.
Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1960. — 108 p. "Materialen zum sumerischen Lexikon" ist eine mehrbändige Reihe, deren Hauptteil der große deutsche Assyriologe und Sumerer Benno Landsberger (1890-1968) erarbeitet hat.
The Trustees of the two museums, 1976. — 304 p. Volume IX of the Ur Excavations, Texts series contains neo-Sumerian economic texts currently in the University Museum, Philadelphia which were not included in UET III. A proposed future volume will contain the unpublished Ur III period texts in the British Museum. The texts are arranged by subject matter and chronologically within...
Academic Press Fribourg/Vanderhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006. — 285 S. — (Orbis biblicus et orientalis: Sonderband 5). Die Altbabylonische Zeichenliste bietet eine Sammlung von Formen für die 480 Keilschriftzeichen, die in den sumerisch-literarischen Texten der altbabylonischen Zeit nachgewiesen werden können. Das Zeicheninventar beschränkt sich auf Texte aus Nippur und Ur und auf die...
Eisenbrauns, 2016. — 199 p. — (Nisaba 30). In 1914, William M. Nesbit published his dissertation at Columbia University on 30 archival texts from the Third Dynasty of Ur. Now, more than a century later, the remaining tablets in his collection have been recovered and, thanks to the generosity of the Nesbit family, were made available for publication by David I. Owen. The...
The University of Chicago Press, 1955. — 49 p. — (Assyriological Studies 15). Although the new king list tablet published in this volume is rather small — for it measures only 5.8 x 3.7 x 2.3 cm — and although it has only nine short lines of writing, it is nevertheless of great historical importance. For its first seven lines contain a king list giving the names and the number...
The University of Pennsylvania, 1910. — 92 p. — (Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series D: Researches and Treatises. vol. 5.2). The discoverer of the Temple Library of Nippur, Professor H. V. Hilprecht, kindly intrusted me with the publication of the several texts relating to the god " NIN-IB, the son of Enlil," shortly to be issued in the Babylonian...
Butzon & Bereker Kevelaer, 1980. — 123 S. — (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 209/Nimwegener sumerologische Studien 1). Übersetzung und Transkription von Gilgamesch und Akka, mit Anmerkungen und Kommentaren in deutscher Sprache. Translation and transliteration of Gilgamesh and Akka, with notes and commentary in German.
Ugarit-Verlag, 2004. — 191 S. — (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 309). W.H.Ph. Romer bietet eine Neuauflage der berühmten sumerischen Klage über die Zerstörung von Ur an. Der Band enthält Transkriptionen aller bisher veröffentlichten relevanten Texte, eine Übersetzung und einen ausführlichen Kommentar zu sumerischen Wörtern und grammatikalischen Problemen des Textes. W.H.Ph....
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. — 439 S. — (Heidelberger Emesal-Studien 3). Im antiken Mesopotamien wurden Gebete der „Handerhebung“ (Šuʾila) – bezeichnet nach der beim Beten eingenommenen Haltung – in ganz unterschiedlichen Zusammenhängen mit jeweils unterschiedlichen Absichten vorgetragen: von Heilern (āšipu) zumeist in babylonischer Sprache als Bestandteil...
Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. — 229 p. — (Barcino Monographica Orientalia 18). This volume contains a complete edition of sixteen Neo-Sumerian barley allotment rolls from the Umma region, twelve of which are currently kept in the Iraq National Museum, while the other four tablets remain in private hands. The work includes a study of the lists of workers and the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2016. — 578 S. — (Untersuchungen zur Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie 12.1). Das vorliegende Buch stellt einen Versuch dar, die Lücke in der Geschichte des Sumerischen zu schließen, die bislang zwischen den umfangreichen, gut untersuchten Textcorpora des späten dritten und frühen zweiten Jahrtausends v. Chr. und den relativ wenigen Vorkommen von...
The John C. Winston Co., 1905. — 80 p. The one hundred and seventeen new texts here presented are the first of the Haverford Library Collection of cuneiform tablets to be published. This collection, consisting of four hundred tablets, was purchased in New York in the autumn of 1901 and presented to Haverford College by T. Wistar Brown, President of the Corporation of that...