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Editorial Reviews. Review. “Being an expert Assyriologist, Mr. King has utilized with rare skill A History of Sumer and Akkad (Illustrated) by [King, Leonard W.
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Buy As Gift. Overview Although the earliest Sumerian settlements in Southern Babylonia are to be set back in a comparatively remote period, the race by which they were founded appears at that time to have already attained to a high level of culture.
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We find them building houses for themselves and temples for their gods of burnt and unburnt brick. They are rich in sheep and cattle, and they have increased the natural fertility of their country by means of a regular system of canals and irrigation-channels. It is true that at this time their sculpture shared the rude character of their pottery, but their main achievement, the invention of a system of writing by means of lines and wedges, is in itself sufficient indication of their comparatively advanced state of civilization.
Derived originally from picture-characters, the signs themselves, even in the earliest and most primitive inscriptions as yet recovered, have already lost to a great extent their pictorial character, while we find them employed not only as ideograms to express ideas, but also phonetically for syllables. The use of this complicated system of writing by the early Sumerians presupposes an extremely long period of previous development. This may well have taken place in their original home, before they entered the Babylonian plain.
In any case, we must set back in the remote past the beginnings of this ancient people, and we may probably picture their first settlement in the neighborhood of the Persian Gulf some centuries before the period to which we may assign the earliest of their remains that have actually come down to us Product Details. Average Review. Write a Review. Related Searches.
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A History of Babylon. Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of all ages experience a classic for the first time or revisit a past favorite. Leonard W. The CDLI is an online portal that curates cuneiform tablets, inscriptions, and other text artifacts for open access research. The project has catalogued, photographed, and digitized more than , artifacts, nearly half of which include Sumerian text.
The ETCSL presents transliterations and English translations of Sumerian literary texts as well as bibliography and source information. The corpus contains Sumerian texts in transliteration, English prose translations and bibliographical information for each composition. The transliterations and the translations can be searched, browsed and read online using the tools of the website.
Students looking for a solid print source for Sumerian primary texts can turn to K. V65 ]. The reader contains 44 texts ranging from royal inscriptions to legal and economic documents, though it does not include any literary texts. The reader—a slim pages—is packed with helpful resources for the elementary student: texts, transliterations, a sign list, phonological charts, and glossaries for vocabulary, divinities, persons, places, dates, buildings, and festivals. Beyond Volk, however, Konstantopoulos explains that much of the source material tends to appear in scholarly articles.
As for translations, Konstantopoulos recommends a few volumes that cover the range of Sumerian literature. H37 ], T. Jacobsen presents verse translations of Sumerian poetry with introductions and notes for a general audience. L57 ; ebook here ] edited by J. Black, G. Cunningham, E. Robson, and G. This volume is a comprehensive anthology of extant Sumerian—though not as comprehensive as the ETCSL from which it is drawn.
More focused, but certainly of interest to students interested in the development of Mesopotamian literature is H. V36 ; ebook here ], which covers the earliest known examples of epic poetry. Konstantopoulos cautions students that the understanding and interpretation of Sumerian is still evolving, and for that reason, so are translations. Once you have made headway with Sumerian fundamentals, there are some more detailed grammars that will become indispensable. Konstantopoulos recommends the following linguistics-focused resources for such students: P.
C36 ], edited by R. T46 ]; and B.
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Another grammar that students may find useful as their Sumerian skills mature is D. Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. A table of contents is included. Get A Copy. Kindle Edition , pages. Published October 4th by Acheron Press first published January 4th More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
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Start your review of A History of Sumer and Akkad. Jan 09, Iset rated it liked it Shelves: bronze-agetobce-factual. It has value, but that value is limited by the caveat that new research and discoveries have overturned some of the interpretations of King's day.
Mar 09, Sean Brennan rated it it was ok Shelves: history. Sadly now vastly out of date.
Worthy as an azademic work on the state of archaeology of the early 2oth Century. Aug 17, Joshua rated it really liked it. Awesome time period, amazing legends and myths! Agust Ingi Sigurdsson rated it it was ok Jul 11, Yesi Urrea rated it it was amazing Oct 09, Paulo Coutinho rated it it was amazing Jun 13,