?
Gasur in the Third Millennium
P. 171–182.
The paper is an attempt at providinan up-to-date reconstruction of
political and economic life at the ancient Mesopotamian city of Gasur (mod. Yorghan Tepe) in the 3rd millennium BCE.
In book
P., Leuven, Bristol: Peeters Publishers, 2021.
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
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
Arkhipov I., Journal of Semitic Studies 2023 Vol. 68 No. 1 P. 1–17
The Akkadian expression lā watar (lā matar) appears in two dozen Old Babylonian letters, in Standard Babylonian lexical lists and, arguably, in an Old Babylonian mathematical text and in an Old Assyrian letter. Though the expression has been known since the early twentieth century, it has never been an object of a special study. Commentaries in the ...
Added: March 4, 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
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
Arkhipov I., Kalinin M., Loesov S., , in: History of the Akkadian LanguageVol. 1: Linguistic background and early periods.: Boston, Leiden: Brill, 2021. Ch. 8 P. 228–365.
For the purposes of the present chapter, morphosyntax is an inquiry into the meanings of inflectional verb forms. Another, more transparent, label for this field of study is grammatical (i.e., morphological) semantics. In this overview, we deal only with the verbal morphosyntax.
Our overview embraces four Akkadian idioms: Sargonic and three Babylonian varieties: OB, MB, NB. ...
Added: February 4, 2021
Arkhipov I., Kalinin M., Loesov S., Boston, Leiden: Brill, 2021.
Akkadian is, after Sumerian, the second oldest language attested in the Ancient Near East, as well as the oldest known Semitic language. It is also a language with one of history’s longest written records. And yet, unlike other relevant languages written over a long period of time, there has been no volume dedicated to its ...
Added: February 4, 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
Nurullin R., , in: The Third Millennium: Studies in Early Mesopotamia and Syria in Honor of Walter Sommerfeld and Manfred Krebernik.: Leiden: Brill, 2020. Ch. 25 P. 546–568.
The paper deals with two problematical lines in the Standard Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic. ...
Added: September 7, 2020
Vizirova E., Козлова Н. В., Вестник древней истории 2019 Т. 79 № 4 С. 854–894
The present study deals with animal husbandry in Sumer at the end of the third millennium B.C. It is based on documents related to the institutions specializing in fattening аnimals for cultic purposes in the province of Girsu at the time of the Third dynasty of Ur. A group of Neo-Sumerian documents referring to the ...
Added: February 14, 2020
Arkhipov I., Loesov S., Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 2019 Vol. 82 No. 3 P. 395–403
The paper shows that there is a pattern in the distribution of synthetic (šēp šarrim “the king’s foot”) vs. analytical (kaspum ša awīlim “the boss’s money”) genitive constructions in Old Babylonian. The choice depends on the lexical feature of head nouns known as (in)alienability. Old Babylonian kinship and body part terms, as well as some ...
Added: October 31, 2019
Markina E., Kogan L., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft 2019 Vol. 169 No. 2 P. 281–312
A new volume of the CUSAS series, published by L. Milano and A. Westenholz, provides the readers with an unprecedented wealth of highly informative Late Sargonic documents. The present article is an in-depth analysis of this remarkable theme, focusing on a variety of philological and linguistic issues. It also contains a complete glossary of Akkadian ...
Added: October 28, 2019
Nurullin R., Вестник древней истории 2018 Т. 78 № 4 С. 831–846
The paper surveys the current state of knowledge about Sumerian loanwords in Akkadian and is intended as a prolegomenon to future studies dealing with specific lexemes. The paper discusses the following problems: identification of Sumerian loanwords in Akkadian and vice versa; key sources for reconstructing Sumerian phonology. ...
Added: November 28, 2018
Markina E., Вестник древней истории 2018 Т. 78 № 4 С. 1081–1093
Настоящая статья, продолжает серию комментированных публикаций аккадских источников саргоновского времени (ок. 2350–2170 до н.э.). Вниманию читателя предлагается перевод т.н. «стандартной надписи» царя Маништушу с филологическим и историческим комментарием. ...
Added: October 31, 2018