Sumerian

The God Enki in Sumerian Royal Ideology and Mythology

by Peeter Espak

2010, University of Tartu, PhD dissertation, 284 pp. 2010, University of Tartu, PhD dissertation, 284 pp.

LAURITO ROMINA, PERS MARIAPAOLA, 2002 «Attestations of Canals in the Royal Sources from the Sumerian to the Paleobaylonian Period», in Egitto e Vicino Oriente XXV, Università di Pisa.

by Romina Laurito

LAURITO ROMINA, MEZZASALMA ALESSANDRA, VERDERAME LORENZO, 2008 «Texts and Labels: A Case Study from Neo-Sumerian Umma», in A.A.V.V. (eds.), Classifications of Knowledge in the Ancient Near East: Lexicography, Iconography, Stratigraphy, Proceedings of the 51st R.A.I., Chicago, July 18-22, 2005, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC) 62, Chicago.

by Romina Laurito

LAURITO ROMINA, MEZZASALMA ALESSANDRA, VERDERAME LORENZO, 2006 «Oltre la tavoletta. Documenti archivistici dall’amministrazione mesopotamica del III millennio», in Mora C., Piacentini P., (eds.) L’ufficio e il documento. Forme, modi e strumenti dell’amministrazione in Egitto e nel Vicino Oriente Antico, Quaderni di Acme 83, Milano, Atti delle giornate di studio degli Egittologi e degli Orientalisti italiani tenutesi a Milano-Pavia il 17-19 febbraio 2005.

by Romina Laurito

LAURITO ROMINA, 2005 «Sumerian Written Clay Documents: Early Dynastic bullae and pisan-dub(-ba)in Administration», in Perna M. (ed.) Studi in onore di Enrica Fiandra, Contributi di archeologia egea e vicinorientale, Studi egei e vicinorientali, vol. 1, Napoli.

by Romina Laurito

CRO-MAGNON SECOND DELIVERY OLDER READINGS AND REVIEWS A WORK IN PROGRESS

by Jacques Coulardeau

Here are some of the reviews of some of the readings I have been doing over the last 18 months for this project, Cromagnon’s Language. July 2005 to present, www.academia.edu.
Team Members: Jacques Coulardeau, Ivan EVE.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. BRYAN SYKES – THE SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF EVE
2. THEODOR W. ADORNO – LE CARACTERE... more TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. BRYAN SYKES – THE SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF EVE
2. THEODOR W. ADORNO – LE CARACTERE FETICHE DANS LA MUSIQUE – EDITIONS ALLIA – 2007 (1956(1938))
3. ROBERT ZEMECKIS - BEOWULF
4. BEOWULF AND GRENDEL
5. EDITH WEBER – LA RESONANCE DANS LES ECHELLES MUSICALES – CNRS – 1963
6. PROPHECY COLES – THE IMPORTANCE OF SIBLING RELATIONSHIPS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
7. CHARLES DARWIN – ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
8. CHARLES DARWIN – THE DESCENT OF MAN
9. DIETZ OTTO EDZARD – SUMERIAN GRAMMAR
10. THE PALI LANGUAGE (LANGUAGES OF ASIA AND AFRICA)
11. LANGUAGE AND STYLE OF THE VEDIC RSIS (SUNY SERIES IN HINDU STUDIES)
12. NIALL FERGUSON – CIVILIZATION, THE WEST AND THE REST – 2011
13. FRANCIS FUKUYAMA – THE END OF HISTORY AND THE LAST MAN
14. WINFRED P. LEHMANN – PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN SYNTAX
15. LORD OF THE RINGS – THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING – METROPOLITAN EDITION
16. LORD OF THE RINGS – THE TWO TOWERS – METROPOLITAN EDITION
17. LORD OF THE RINGS – THE RETURN OF THE KING – METROPOLITAN EDITION COLLECTOR
18. STEVEN MITHEN – THE SINGING NEANDERTHALS, THE ORIGINES OF MUSIC, LANGUAGE, MIND, AND BODY
19. MUSIQUE ET TEMPS – CITE DE LA MUSIQUE – 978 2 914147 44 6
20. MARYLÈNE PATOU-MATHIS – NEANDERTHAL, UNE AUTRE HUMANITÉ
21. MARTIAL ROBERT – PIERRE SHAEFFER D’ORPHEE A MACLUHAN
22. PIERRE SHAEFFER – DE LA MUSIQUE CONCRETE A LA MUSIQUE MEME
23. BERTIL TIKKANEN – THE SANSKRIT GERUND : A SYNCHRONIC, DIACHRONIC AND TYPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS – HELSINKI 1987
24. J.R.R. TOLKIEN – CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN – THE LEGEND OF SIHURD AND GUDRUN
25. A.A. MACDONNELL – VEDIC MYTHOLOGY, STRASSBURG, 1897
26. WILLIAM MORRIS – EIRIKR MAGNUSSON – ANONYMOUS – THE VOLSUNG SAGA
27. JESSE L. BYOCK – SAGA OF THE VOLSUNGS
28. CALVERT WATKINS – HOW TO KILL A DRAGON : ASPECTS OF INDO-EUROPEAN POETICS
29. WHITNEY, WILLIAM DWIGHT – SANSKRIT GRAMMAR INCLUDING THE CLASSICAL LANGUAGE AND THE OLDER DIALECTS OF …

A typology of Sumerian copular clauses

by Gábor Zólyomi

in press

This paper aims to show that the structural varieties of Sumerian copular clauses can be adequately accounted for only... more This paper aims to show that the structural varieties of Sumerian copular clauses can be adequately accounted for only with reference to their information structure. It presents a classification of Sumerian copular clauses in terms of their semantic type and information structure, based on word order in copular clauses and on the way the subject is expressed. It concludes that Sumerian copular clauses have two particular structural positions to accommodate constituents functioning as topic and focus, respectively. Topic is situated in the left periphery of the clause, while focus had a particular structural position before the copula.

Sumerian City Laments and the Book of Lamentations: Toward a Comparative Theological Study (Hebrew)

by Nili Samet

This article presents an initial sketch for a comparative theological study of the city lament genre in Mesopotamia... more This article presents an initial sketch for a comparative theological study of the city lament genre in Mesopotamia and in the Bible. First, it surveys the foundations of the theology of Sumerian city laments, referring to issues such as the responsibility sharing among the gods; the cosmological mechanism generating the destruction; the involvement of natural forces in the process of devastation; and the reasons suggested by the laments for the destruction. These issues are then examined from a comparative point of view. Some interesting differences between the Sumerian and the Biblical city lament traditions are recognizable, including the extent to which the god is responsible for the events; the different theological mechanisms developed by each tradition to deal with the problem of theodicy; the relation between nature and history as two arenas of divine activity; and the question if, and how, the destruction could be understood in causal terms of crime and punishment.

Rec. a M. Sigrist, Tablets from the Princeton Theological Seminary: Ur III Period. Part 2 (Philadelphia, 2005)

by Lorenzo Verderame

published in Rivista degli Studi Orientali 83 (2010), pp. 474-478

Rec. a T.K. Kämmerer, Studien zu Ritual und Sozialgeschichte im Alten Orient / Studies on Ritual and Society in the Ancient Near East (Berlin-New York, 2007)

by Lorenzo Verderame

published in Rivista degli Studi Orientali 83 (2010), pp. 470-473

Лексические контакты хаттского языка [Lexical contacts of the Hattic language]

by Alexei Kassian

In: Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология. XIV / Ред. Н. Н. Казанский и др. СПб., 2010. С. 445-475.

Hattic or Hattian is an ancient cuneiform language spoken in the Central Anatolia at the beginning of the 2nd... more Hattic or Hattian is an ancient cuneiform language spoken in the Central Anatolia at the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C. and in all likelihood earlier, whose corpus is rather small. Along with the well-known set of Hattic loanwords in Hittite and Palaic, Hattic shows traces of linguistic interference with some other ancient languages. The article examines lexical borrowings between Hattic and the Luwian, Hurrian, Semitic, Proto-West Caucasian, Sumerian, Ancient Greek languages.

In Russian. This is a part of a more extended paper “Hattic as a Sino-Caucasian Language” (to appear in Ugarit-Forschungen 41).

The polysemy and productivity of the formative element nam in Old Babylonian literary Sumerian

by Bálint Tanos

A Drehem Text, AS 4/v/16

by Ronald Wallenfels

Published in N.A.B.U. 2001/104

Hurro-Urartian from the lexicostatistical viewpoint

by Alexei Kassian

In: Ugarit-Forschungen. Bd 42, 2010–2011. P. 383–451

What the modern formal comparative linguistics can say about genetic affiliation of the Hurro-Urartian languages.... more What the modern formal comparative linguistics can say about genetic affiliation of the Hurro-Urartian languages. Attribution to the Sino-Caucasian (Dene-Caucasian) macro-family is discussed as the most likely solution. Specific closeness to the Yeniseian language family is also suspected.

Some Considerations about Demons in Mesopotamia

by Lorenzo Verderame

(in collaboration with A.M.G. Capomacchia) published in SMSR - Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni 77/2 (2011), 291-297

The present article provides an analysis of general traits of those particular extra-human beings conventionally... more The present article provides an analysis of general traits of those particular extra-human beings conventionally called “demons” found in ancient Mesopotamian religion. Furthermore, methodological problems on the topic are discussed according to a historical-religious point of view.

Il tema del “giusto sofferente” nell’antica Mesopotamia

by Lorenzo Verderame

Il tema del “giusto sofferente” nell’antica Mesopotamia, in G. Frulla - S. Perini, Tra testo sacro e contesto culturale: generi e tematiche nella Bibbia, Padova, 2012 (in stampa)

Keywords: Righteous Sufferer, Job, Akkadian, Sumerian Keywords: Righteous Sufferer, Job, Akkadian, Sumerian

The Sumerian Equative Case

by Szilvia Sövegjártó

published in The Odd Yearbook 8 (2010)

Searching in ETCSRI

by Gábor Zólyomi

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Two Sumerian Parallels to Isaiah 55, 10

by Nili Samet

• "The Ur Lament Tablets: Some Joins and New Readings", Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2011, 62.

by Nili Samet