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Posing a Question in Akkadian: Wh- and Other Interrogatives in Old Babylonian Letters
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The article represents a study of the interrogative sentences in the Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian language
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Arkhipov I., Kogan L., Altorientalische Forschungen 2025 Vol. 52 No. 1 P. 1–20
In the present study the authors continue their previous work analyzing difficult lexemes attested in the so-called “chancery texts” from the Early Dynastic city-state of Ebla (in modern Syria). The newly suggested interpretations are important not only for one’s understanding of the earliest forms of East Semitic, but also for a proper comprehension of the ...
Added: December 18, 2024
Arkhipov I., Loesov S., Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 2025 Vol. 88 No. 3 P. 431–453
The Akkadian ventive is now well understood as a marker pointing to the location of the speech act participants. Nonetheless, there remain other domains of its usage which still need clarification. We endeavour to describe these domains of the ventive’s usage relying upon a single-writer corpus of 178 Old Babylonian letters, those of Samsi-Addu, the ...
Added: December 18, 2024
Arkhipov I., Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archeologie Orientale 2023 Vol. 117 No. 1 P. 69–84
The Louvre houses thirty-two Old Babylonian letters discovered in Kiš during the excavations led by Henri de Genouillac in 1912. He published the letters, copied in cuneiform, in 1925. Twenty-two of these letters were then published by Jean-Robert Kupper in 1959. In 2019, the letters were collated in the Louvre, and the results of this ...
Added: August 25, 2024
Markina E., Westenholz A., Journal of the American Oriental Society. American Oriental Society 2024 Vol. 144 No. 2 P. 361–368
In this paper, the year names on two tablets from the reign of Naramsin of Akkad are mutually restored and their contribution to understanding the development of Old Akkadian royal iconography is considered. ...
Added: July 11, 2024
Egorova E. V., Вестник Томского государственного университета 2023 № 493 С. 51–64
The article examines the types of the speaker’s utterances that start a dialogical communication in a chat in German. The object of the empirical analysis is one of the chat forms – a consultation chat, in which users can ask a question to an invited political guest. The focus is the structural types of utterances ...
Added: February 18, 2024
Alexandrov B., Вестник древней истории 2023 Т. 83 № 4 С. 975–1003
The article contains translation and commentary to the Akkadian letter RS 34.165 from the archives of Ugarit. This letter describes a battle between Hittite and Assyrian armies fought near the town of Nihriya in Upper Mesopotamia close to the end of 1240s B.C. ...
Added: December 24, 2023
Sergey Koval, Loesov S., Studies in Language 2025 Vol. 49 No. 1 P. 93–118
The Old Assyrian language is a branch of East Semitic. East Semitic has been extinct since around 400 BCE. The Old Assyrian texts were produced by Assyrian merchants between 1890 and 1860 BCE in Northern Mesopotamia and Central Anatolia. Old Assyrian, as well as most other East Semitic varieties, had a ventive (or cislocative) marker ...
Added: December 23, 2023
Nurullin R., Вестник древней истории 2023 Т. 83 № 2 С. 274–297
This paper deals with a passage from an Old Babylonian Gilgamesh tablet (the Meissner–Millard tablet). The paper attempts at a poetic analysis of the passage and addresses the question of its possible foreign origin within the Epic of Gilgamesh. ...
Added: June 26, 2023
Berzon E., Maksim Kalinin, Sergey Koval et al., Journal of Semitic Studies 2023 Vol. 68 No. 2 P. 391–402
This paper offers an interpretation of an insufficiently understood verb form in the Neo-Babylonian letter OIP 114, 17:8, 29, thereby clarifying its contents. The word in question is shown to be an Aramaic verb form. This interpretation is supported by observations on the orthography and phonology of early Neo-Babylonian. It follows from the study that ...
Added: April 6, 2023
Alexandrov B., Вестник древней истории 2022 Т. 82 № 4 С. 983–989
The article offers a survey of the texts published from ancient Sapinuwa as DAAM 2 ...
Added: December 24, 2022
Markina E., Вестник древней истории 2022 Т. 82 № 2 С. 261–280
Статья предлагает читателю ознакомиться с деловой перепиской, дошедшей до нас в составе архива текстов из древнего Гасура. В письмах затрагивается широкий круг проблем,
связанных в основном с сельскохозяйственными практиками, отношениями чиновников
друг с другом и организацией визита царя (предположительно, Нарам-Суэна) в Гасур. ...
Added: October 17, 2022
Alexandrov B., Ориенталистика 2021 Т. 4 № 3 С. 596–619
The Akkadian expression ubānum ištēt ‘one finger’ is attested in Old Babylonian letters of the 18thcentury BCE as an allegoric description of a close alliance between rulers. Two hypotheses were advanced in the literature to explain the origin of this expression. According to the first one, the allegory of ‘one finger’ was based on a symbolic gesture ...
Added: February 3, 2022
Nurullin R., Kogan L., Вестник древней истории 2021 Т. 81 № 4 С. 1073–1105
Статья посвящена староаккадскому любовному заклинанию MAD 5, 8. Речь идет об одном из наиболее ранних из известных сегодня поэтических текстов, написанных на аккадском языке. Статья содержит полноценное научное издание этого заклинания, включающее подробное исследование его языка и орфографии, перевод и всесторонний филологический комментарий. Для ряда темных мест предложены новые интерпретации. ...
Added: December 25, 2021
Loesov S., Kalinin M., , in: Bēl Lišāni: Current Research in Akkadian Linguistics.: Eisenbrauns, 2021. Ch. 4 P. 96–119.
The paper studies the expression of tense and voice in an Akkadian variety, Neo-Assyrian. The grammatical reading of a given verb form results from the interaction of the lexical meaning of the verb in question with the grammatical semantics of the morphological form used. Starting from this observation, the authors single out five verbal classes ...
Added: November 7, 2021
Kalinin M., Eisenbrauns, 2021.
Akkadian, a Semitic language attested in writing from 2600 BCE until the first century CE, was the language of Mesopotamia for nearly three millennia. This volume examines the language from a comparative and historical linguistic perspective.
Inspired by the work of renowned linguist John Huehnergard and featuring contributions from top scholars in the field, Bēl Lišāni showcases the ...
Added: November 7, 2021
Alexandrov B., Pasiphae. Rivista di filologia e antichità egee (Italy) 2021 Vol. 15 P. 29–48
The article studies the prosody of Akkadian prepositions. The placement of prepositions within a written line of cuneiform texts is analyzed. The Old Babylonian data show that with rare exceptions the prepositions of certain type, namely those of (C)V-VC structure, like ana ‘to(wards)’ and ina ‘in’, were never written at the end of a line. This regularity is interpreted ...
Added: January 31, 2021
Alexandrov B., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2018 No. 4 P. 924–930
The article contains an edition of a fragment of an Akkadian letter found at Hattusa
(Boğazköy). The tablet belongs to the vassal correspondence of the Hittite empire and
probably dates back to the 13th century BCE. A possible attribution of the letter to the Amurru
file of the Hittite royal archives is considered. ...
Added: January 26, 2021
Markina E., , in: The Third Millennium: Studies in Early Mesopotamia and Syria in Honor of Walter Sommerfeld and Manfred Krebernik.: Leiden: Brill, 2020. P. 452–458.
The author presents an attempt at linking the logogram mun.šà, which has so far been attested
only at Sargonic Gasur and has not received a convincing explanation, with another term, mu-ša-qum, found in a handful of Umm-al-Hafriyat documents recently published in CUSAS 27 and probably related to the Ebl. mu-ša-gu-um ‘established allowance’ (*mawtaqum < *wtq ‘to be firm, solid’). ...
Added: October 29, 2020