Hello! I'm a student who has taken a class in Akkadian (OB-focus).

I want to move away from grammar-translation (sign values > dictionary + parsing verbs and translation) and more to reading and acquiring. Thus, I'd like books with Old Babylonian texts that include normalization (most importantly), and preferably the transcription, translations, and signs (but if the transcription is available, I can use Cuneify, so it's less important). Basically, something similar to eHammurabi.

Could anyone recommend such books? I prefer genres around ritual, poems, letters, and daily-life, but I'm open to a variety of genres.

I have come across the word iddak while reading Hammurabi. Can somebody tell me the root word that would appear in a dictionary? It is translated "he will be executed" but I want to know what the lexical form is.

I'm just discovering the wonders of Mesopotamia.So I wanted to ask:Can anybody point me to a good introductory book about Sargon Of Akkad in English? I have already hunted up some good ones about Sennacherib,Esarhaddon,and Ashurbanipal.But Amazon seems to have a scarcity of material dealing specifically with the first Sargon.I'd appreciate any advice or tips here.

we know the chronology of Akkadian empire in middle chronology as 2334~2154BC.

I remember chronology of mesopotamia anchored in Ammisaduqa's venus tablet, and in MC Old babylon sited in 1894~1595BC, isin in 2017~1794BC, Ur III in 2112~2004BC.

But Gutian rule in SKL was 92years(&40days), why the latest year of Akkad was 2154BC in our sense and earliest year of Ur III was 2112BC (between only 42years)? i think it is some superposed rules from Akkad, Uruk, Gutium, Ur, but idn details in it.

我们知道阿卡德帝国在中纪年上定位为2334~2154BC。

中纪年应该锚定在古巴比伦的阿米萨杜卡年间，所以古巴比伦在中纪年里定位为1894~1595BC，伊新是2017~1794BC，乌尔是2112~2004BC。

问题来了，古提王朝在苏美尔王表里有92年（零40天），为什么我们平常把2154BC定为阿卡德末年、把2112BC定义为乌尔首年（间隔只有42年）？这里应该有重叠的王系，但具体是怎么回事？

i know this superposed case(or different case?) but i don't know historical evidence

I found the transliteration ᵁᴿᵁṣa-aʾ-nu (the Assyrian-Akkadian name for the Egyptian city of Ḏꜥnt, better known as Tanis). I'm trying to find the corresponding cuneiform signs, and I think I've got them all except for the "aʾ". I'm assuming ʾ is a glottal stop /ʔ/, but I didn't think this phoneme was represented orthographically. If anyone can help with this, it would be much appreciated.

Ṣaʾnu 𒌷𒍝-aʾ-𒉡 (ᵁᴿᵁṣa-aʾ-nu)

Hello everyone,

I wanted to draw attention to a redditor (https://www.reddit.com/user/Serrault-Euhouet/) who posted his copy of a tablet a few days ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Assyriology/comments/1aoacab/comment/kq4t1at

An Old-babylonian tablet, unavailable on archibab, which caught my attention, even though I helped him a bit with the transliteration, and which had already attracted the attention of another person concerning its provenance.

However, he deleted the thread that same evening, and I have little doubt that it was our questions about its provenance that caused this. Looking more closely at his profile, he seems to be mainly a collector/in the antique market. No doubt the means by which he must also be able to obtain tablets, and this was probably not the first given his slight ability to read it.

I tried to contact him privately, but he didn't reply, so I'm taking the liberty of reporting him further. I wouldn't have had a problem if he'd been honest about its provenance, there are so many tablets on the black market that I wouldn't really hold it against him, it's even an opportunity to access these texts hidden from the research world. But his behaviour only seems to show dishonesty.

Perhaps moderation can do something about it, but above all it was an appeal to avoid helping him, and above all to be vigilant about these practices, having been taken in by them myself.

I’ve read a few of the hymns to some of the deities and they mention the gods being able to absolve and forgive sins. Are they just referring to bad/negative deeds or actions? Or something else? I’m familiar with how the abrahamic faiths view the concept of sin (although mostly from an evangelical perspective). So I’m just curious about the concept in other cultures.

Hi,

I'm an undergraduate student of History at the University of València, in Spain. I've been looking for M.A. programs in Assiriology for when I finish my degree next year, as I want to do a PhD in this field. The thing is, there are no such programs in my country, and I was advised by a Spanish Assiriology researcher to pursue my M.A. in Germany or the Netherlands. Following his advice, I have searched for information on such courses, but I am a little bit confused because of the terminological differences with Spanish universities.

So, I'm asking here. Do you know anywhere where I, a (future) history graduate who doesn't know German, but does know English (with a C1 Cambridge certificate from a few years back, probably could get a C2 if necessary) and has decently good grades (right now my average is at 8.5/10, but I don't exactly know what's the equivalent in other grading systems), can do an M.A. in Assiriology?

Thanks in advance and sorry if this is not the correct place to ask or I'm not asking the correct questions, I'm a little bit lost with all of this.

Hi, I'm working on an humble project, and I need to gather some informations about Ancient Mesopotamia. For instance, I would like to know how women used to take part in the economy in the City of Babylon itself during the late Neo-Assyrian period and the Neo-Babylonian period.

What I've found on the internet so far suggests that they were essentially working from home on very specific tasks (like making clothes) and weren't not really allowed to work in public spaces, like running a shop on a market place.

What kind of job a woman living in the City of babylon could do ? Was her really stucked in her home ? Could a woman run her own buisness ?

As we know the seven-days-a-week arrangement was originally a Sumerian/Babylonian tradition, did they already associate the weekdays with contemporary gods like we do today (for example, moon-day, sun-day)?

Hi, I have a question I've not been able to answer after researching a little about Sumerian phonology. The question is: are Sumerian double consonants real or not? Because some sources say: "yes, of course, double /nn/ occurs a lot, so it must have been pronounced", and others say "no, of course, they are just a product of the writing system."

Then, if I have a word like tum2-mu-un-ze2-en, what would the actual phonetic word be? tummunzen? tumunzen? tumunze? Any insights would be helpful.

I’m trying to figure out different things in languages like Akkadian and Sumerian but it’s been difficult. Someone on the Sumerian subreddit mentioned using ai. So I’ve done it a few times and I’m just seeing if it’s correct. Although it’s been wrong once so far. I’m trying to say something like “hurry up” or something to the effect.

I am learning Akkadian by myself with a couple of textbooks I got on Amazon, and while they do come with a good amount of practice exercises, I would like to start having a go at some real texts. But since I'm doing this completely as a hobby, I don't have access to any materials besides what is published in books/journals, photos of museum artifacts, and a few online collections such as this one from Yale University.

Since it is a bit hard to scan the internet for these materials, I was wondering if anyone here could point me to collections like that one from Yale that I could use to practice.

Hi I’m in my first semester of Assyriology and studying for my first exam. The exercise book has the sentence: “The wife’s wool is in the house” I’m supposed to translate into Akkadian using “ša” My solution was “sīpātum ša aššatim ina bītim.” The solution key says “šipātim ša aššatim ina bītim.” And I’m confused as to why the genitive was used for šipātum. I emailed my professor but she didn’t answer my question. Thank you!

I compiled seven excerpts from the epic of gilgamesh for a school project. I gave it the title of "seven dreams" (like the seven days gilgamesh sleeps at utnapishtim's). I was hoping you guys could help me translate it in cuneiform so that i could write it on the cover!

Hello. I'm looking for online academic resources to enter the field of Assyriology. I'm just an amateur who came upon this topic through an old book I found in my late grandfather's library some years ago. I would love to assist to courses of study on the topic, but in my country (Argentina) this field is not accessible to me.