An Akkadian Handbook: Helps, Paradigms, Glossary, Logograms, and Sign List: Completely Revised and Expanded Second Edition Contributor(s): Miller, Douglas B. (Author), Shipp, R. Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1575063069 ISBN-13: 9781575063065 Publisher: Eisenbrauns OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | Arabic - History | Ancient - General |
Dewey: 492.1 |
LCCN: 2014037918 |
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 |