Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978642902 ISBN 13: 9780978642907

Publisher: Logogram Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

With 6,400 entries, this is the most complete available lexicon of ancient Sumerian vocabulary. It replaces version 3 of the author's Sumerian Lexicon , which has served an audience of over 380,000 visitors at the web site www.sumerian.org since 1999. This published version adds over 2,600 new entries, and corrects or expands many of the previous entries. Also, following the express wish of a majority of online lexicon users, it has merged together and sorted the logogram words and the compound words into purely alphabetical order. This book will be an indispensable reference for anyone trying to translate Sumerian texts. Also, due to the historical position of ancient Sumer as the world's first urban civilisation, cultural and linguistic archaeologists will discover a wealth of information for research.

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About the Author

John A. Halloran, the proprietor of the sumerian.org web site, has loved the Sumerians and their language since he created in 1983 the first version of his Sumerian Lexicon dictionary. After studying with Robert K. Englund at UCLA, he published version 4 of the Sumerian Lexicon as a book in 2006. In 2020-2021 he found it possible to explore and summarize the achievements of the Sumerians using his intimate knowledge of Sumerian language and culture and put it all within a larger framework that contrasts life in a state of nature with life in a state of civilization. In his new 432-page book, How The Sumerians Became Rich, you will see for yourself that the Sumerians pioneered long-lasting social and technological solutions to many of the same issues that we face today. How The Sumerians Became Rich is also a companion reference book to the Sumerian Lexicon because it uses Unicode to supply the 100-page cuneiform sign list and sign readings index that was missing from the 2006 book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Logogram Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0978642902
• ISBN 13: 9780978642907
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: John A. Halloran