ISBN: 1575067161 9781575067162

Category: History / Ancient / General

Page count: 320

<p>Students of Akkadian will find this handy collection of basic information to be the ideal companion through their years of study. Though this handbook is not a replacement for the standard reference works, it summarizes all the basic resource materials needed for the study of Akkadian. Included are the following: miscellaneous helps, paradigms of nouns and verbs, a glossary of important proper nouns, an index of logograms, a sign list with complete sign values, and much more.</p><p>What is new in this revised and expanded edition:</p><p>—An expanded list of common abbreviations</p><p>—A thorough bibliography of important reference works in ten categories, including websites</p><p>—Part One: Additional and more thorough lists, including dialect information for conjunctions, prepositions, and particles</p><p>—Part Two: Additional nominal and verbal paradigms</p><p>—Part Three: Glossary expanded and updated, content thoroughly documented and cross-referenced</p><p>—Part Four: Expanded list of logograms</p><p>—Part Five: Complete list of graphic signs as found in Borger’s <i>Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon</i>, tagged by his new numbering system, and cross-referenced to the Deimel system; sign information aligned with <i>MZL</i> for logographic values and with <i>MZL</i> and <i>Das akkadische Syllabar</i> for syllabic values; graphic sign images now included with the list of determinatives; two new indexes</p><p>—Can now be used alongside all major grammars of Akkadian</p><p>—A more attractive format</p><p>—All data checked against the latest published reference works</p>