Akkadian
Grammar:
The Akkadian
Language (John Heise) This site
contains material ranging from introductory material, to Grammar, Cuneiform
text and Lexicon.
Lexicon:
A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian (J. N. Postgate) "A Concise
Dictionary of Akkadian, edited by Jeremy Black, Andrew George, and Nicholas
Postgate, with the assistance of Tina Breckwoldt, Graham Cunningham,
Marie-Christine Ludwig, Clemens Reichel, Jonathan Blanchard Smith, Junko
Taniguchi and Cornelia Wunsch, was published in Wiesbaden in 1999 by
Harrassowitz Verlag, and reprinted the following year with minor corrections.
This archive is intended to act as a supplement for users of the dictionary,
fulfilling several functions as described below. If sufficient use is made of
this web-site, our intention is to up-date the list periodically, perhaps once
a year."
Chicago Assyrian
Dictionary Project – Reports (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
Texts:
The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus
Project
(Academy of Finland & the University of
Helsinki) The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project,
started in 1986, is a long-term undertaking to: collect all published and
unpublished Neo-Assyrian texts into an electronic database, Corpus of
Neo-Assyrian (CNA),
and maintain the database as a research tool; use
the CNA database
to publish up-to-date critical text editions of texts written in Neo-Assyrian
in a series of volumes organized by text genre (SAA); produce a journal
as a medium for the publication of new texts and studies relating to the
Assyrian Empire or Assyria in general (SAAB); publish a series
of monographic studies based on the texts published in the SAA series or other
sources on various topics related to Assyria (SAAS); publish a series
of facsimile cuneiform texts, for both classroom and general research use,
based primarily on the texts from Assurbanipal’s library (SAACT); publish a
series of critical text editions of literary texts based primarily on cuneiform
texts from Assurbanipal’s library (SAALT); publish a
complete name book and who was who of the Neo-Assyrian empire based on the CNA
database and supplementary materials (PNA); create a toponym
database that can be used to generate a Digital Map of the Ancient
Near East. This project is being carried out with the collaboration of The Casco Bay Assyriological Institute and
the Tübinger
Atlas des Vorderen Orients.
The Royal Inscriptions of
Mesopotamia (University of Toronto)
"The goal of the RIM project is to make the inscriptions of the rulers of
ancient Mesopotamia available to layman and specialist alike by publishing
standard editions of all the texts. Mesopotamia was home to one of the two
first great civilizations of the world. The civilization created by the
Assyrians, Babylonians, Sumerians, and Akkadians around the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers flourished for over two and a half millennia (ca. 3000-500
BC). The inscriptions of its rulers recorded their many achievements, were
written in the cuneiform script and were composed primarily in the Akkadian and
Sumerian languages."
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
(A joint project of the University of California at Los Angeles and the Max
Planck Institute for the History of Science)
"The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) represents the efforts of
an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of
science to make available through the internet the form and content of
cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3200 B.C., until
the end of the third millennium."
Babylonian Texts of the First
Millennium B.C. (Janos Everling)
"Issuing from one of the
three best documented epochs of the Mesopotamian History, the First Millennium
B.C. Babylonian texts represent an enormous database for the research on the
every day life history. The texts (mostly administrative, juridical and
economic) permit us an analysis of the material divided by temple, familial and
personal archives. . . . The Archive is divided into six main fields: 1.
General lists concerning all periods, 2. Text editions, 3. List of familial and
individual archives, 4. Thematically databases, 5. Main Assyriological
resources of Net, 6. Main Bibliographies."
Achaemenid Royal
Inscriptions
(Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) "The aim of the
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions project is to create an electronic study edition
of the inscriptions of the Achaemenid Persian kings in all of their
versions--Old Persian, Elamite, Akkadian, and, where appropriate, Aramaic and
Egyptian. The edition is to be accompanied by translations, glossaries,
grammatical indexes, basic bibliographic apparatus, basic text critical
apparatus, and some graphic apparatus (e.g., plans indicating provenience of
the inscriptions, images of exemplars); the texts will be available for
downloading and printing."
Classics in
Mediterranean (University of
Michigan) "This document collects links to
internet resources of interest to classicists and Mediterranean
archaeologists."
West Semitic Research Project
(USC) "Ancient
images and commentary relating to the Bible and ancient Near East."
The Stanford
Cuneiform Tablet Visualization Project
(Sean Anderson & Marc Levoy)
"Thousands of historically revealing cuneiform clay tablets, which were
inscribed in Mesopotamia millenia ago, still exist today. Visualizing
cuneiform writing is important when deciphering what is written on the tablets.
It is also important when reproducing the tablets in papers and books.
Unfortunately, scholars have found photographs to be an inadequate
visualization tool, for two reasons. First, the text wraps around the
sides of some tablets, so a single viewpoint is insufficient. Second, a
raking light will illuminate some textual features, but will leave others
shadowed or invisible because they are either obscured by features on the
tablet or are nearly aligned with the lighting direction. We have
investigated solutions to these problems. We've first created a high-resolution
3D computer model from laser range data, then unwrapped and flattened the
inscriptions on the model to a plane, allowing us to represent them as a scalar
displacement map, and finally, we rendered this map non-photorealistically
using accessibility and curvature coloring. The output of this
semi-automatic process enables all of a tablet's text to be perceived in a
single concise image. Our technique can also be applied to other types of
inscribed surfaces, including bas-reliefs."
Cuneiform.net – The Cuneiform
Database Project (The University of
Birmingham) "A
database is under construction that will store individual cuneiform signs or
sections of tablets with intensity representing depth information."