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Akkadian Handbook:

Helps, Paradigms, Glossary, Logograms, and Sign List 2ed

ISBN-13: 9781575063065
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: EISENBRAUNS
By Douglas B. Miller
Price: AUD $75.99
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Local release date: 01/05/2018
Format: Paperback (230.00mm X 140.00mm) 320 pages Weight: 475g
Categories: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]

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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

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Akkadian Handbook:

Helps, Paradigms, Glossary, Logograms, and Sign List 2ed