An Akkadian Handbook: Helps, Paradigms, Glossary, Logograms, and Sign List

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.What is new in this revised and expanded edition: --An expanded list of common abbreviations--A thorough bibliography of important reference works in ten categories, including websites--Part One: Additional and more thorough lists, including dialect information for conjunctions, prepositions, and particles--Part Two: Additional nominal and verbal paradigms--Part Three: Glossary expanded and updated, content thoroughly documented and cross-referenced--Part Four: Expanded list of logograms--Part Five: Complete list of graphic signs as found in Borger's Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon, tagged by his new numbering system, and cross-referenced to the Deimel system; sign information aligned with MZL for logographic values and with MZL and Das akkadische Syllabar for syllabic values; graphic sign images now included with the list of determinatives; two new indexes--Can now be used alongside all major grammars of Akkadian--A more attractive format--All data checked against the latest published reference works

• | Author: Douglas B. Miller
• | Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• | Publication Date: Nov 11, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1575063069
• | ISBN-13: 9781575063065