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Learn to Read Ancient Sumerian: An Introduction for Complete Beginners.

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We have royal inscriptions, such as the Gudea Cylinders, as well as early examples of epic poetry, like the Matter of Aratta. At the end of this book you truly will be able to read genuine ancient Sumerian, written in cuneiform.

There is evidence that it continued be copied and studied during the life of Alexander and perhaps even into second century CE. Using an authentic, ancient Sumerian story, "The Curse of Agade" as a teaching tool, this book provides further details on topics such as case, verbal prefixes, and non-finite verbal forms, and introduces new concepts including the Sumerian numbering system and DIRI compounds. This is a brilliant starting point for people wanting to start learning ancient Sumerian language with no previous knowledge of the language. But this can be a challenge for someone trying to start out on their own, since as Konstantopoulos jokes, following Diakonoff, that “there are as many grammars of Sumerian as there are Sumerologists.

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As for translations, Konstantopoulos recommends a few volumes that cover the range of Sumerian literature. S864 2013; ebook available] contains over thirty chapters on material remains, systems of government, daily life, and neighboring societies among other topics.This lets the reader identify the original character, because some words which were pronounced the same were written with different characters. Above all, this is the first Sumerian textbook that introduces and utilizes the online assyriological resources available on the internet. If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. M. in Old Testament studies from Capital Bible Seminary, where he wrote his thesis on the meaning of the divine title "El Shaddai.

I am most familiar with Marie-Louise Thomsen, The Sumerian Language and Otto Edzard Dietz, Sumerian Grammar and the Liepzig-Münchner Sumerischer Zettelkasten. I also participated in the editing of the volume, the preparation of the special exhibit, and the writing of catalog entires. F55 2015], which in addition to its efficient overview to the script is also beautifully illustrated by photographs of the British Museum’s collection. Once you have made headway with Sumerian fundamentals, there are some more detailed grammars that will become indispensable. Konstantopoulos remembers being attracted to the grammar of a particular line on Cylinder A—“Come on, come on!Foxvog has published his Introduction to Sumerian Grammar [CDLI; available online] directly to the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) preprints collection. I’ve had this book for about a year now, going back to it when ever I suddenly become reinvested in Sumerian civilisation, and can say that it is great at teaching someone a basic understanding of Sumerian language, with attention to the un-English eccentricities of Sumerian language. The active Akkado-Sumerian bilingualism of the Garshana scribes would have been unthinkable without constant communicative contacts with the native speakers of Sumerian in the region. But if you truly are committed to practice writing out signs, one book stands out as an attempt to overcome the artifice—D. I don't know about original clay tablet on which this was written, but it can be found through the original publication I think: https://www.

The ETCSL presents transliterations and English translations of Sumerian literary texts as well as bibliography and source information. Used in combination with Foxvog’s Elementary Sumerian Glossary [CDLI; available online], this text offers the curious student a entry point into the language. As fate would have it, most students learn to read Sumerian from the inscriptions of Gudea, patesi of Lagash, so they get very familiar with these strings. This textbook provides an introduction to the grammar of Sumerian, one of the oldest documented languages in the world.Um guia que nos faz ultrapassar com facilidade o início muitas vezes desanimador quando se trata de estudar de forma autodidata línguas arcaicas, mortas e exóticas como o sumeriano em sua escrita cuneiforme. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. As you are likely aware, the Sumerian language is poorly understood and there's plenty of disagreement among Sumerologists. Beyond Volk, however, Konstantopoulos explains that much of the source material tends to appear in scholarly articles. Without wasting time, you're immediately introduced to all the important details to make sense of the general grammar, sentence structure, the writing system (cuneiform) and basic vocabulary.

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