Electronic pennsylvania sumerian dictionary book of. This is the first time i ever saw a translator for cuneiform. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Civil 1967 daniel a foxvog lecturer in assyriology retired university of california at berkeley revised january 2016 not for citation a glossary suitable for the first several years of instruction, with emphasis on the vocabulary of easy literary texts, early. By 1975 a combination of factors coalesced to make the sumerian dictionary project both feasible and attractive. Thats the primary source for the 5000 entries of this online dictionary. In addition, we are developing tools and datasets for working with the sumerian language. It will also be accessible through an englishlanguage interface that will include grouping of words conceptually and by objecttype. The collapse of the ancient akkadian empire and climate. Purely hypothetical protoindoeuropean reconstructed roots. No single word is decisive, but the sum is enough to show the relation.
The psd is preparing an exhaustive dictionary of the sumerian language which aims to be useful to nonspecialists as well as sumerologists. It is run out of the university of pennsylvania s museum of archaeology and anthropology and funded by both private donors and the national endowment for the humanities. This publication provides an opportunity to look at the proverbs as a corpus and to investigate their actual use. It is funded by the national endowment for the humanities and private contributions. Sumer, in southern iraq, was the first literate culture in civilization, dating as far back as 2500 b. A study of spiritual and literary achievement in the third millennium b. Includes version 2 of the sumerian true type font for displaying transliterated sumerian. Konrad volks a sumerian reader studia pohl series maior 18, rome, 1997 is a good beginning. Sumerian dictionary of the university of pennsylvania museum volume a part 3 sjberg, ke w. Consonants most consonants are basically the same as in english.
Sumerian dictionary of the university of pennsylvania museum. The sumerian king list gives kubaba, the only queen on this list, a reign of a century. Apr 29, 2016 for example, to translate sea i need to understand what means, and to do that, i must basically find out what means, and i find it almost impossible to do, even using the sumerian freq dictionary. Sumerian proverbs in their curricular context niek veldhuis university of pennsylvania bendt alster has published a twovolume edition of all known old babylonian sumerian prov erbs. Halloran the following lexicon contains 1,255 sumerian logogram words and 2,511 sumerian compound words. A logogram is a reading of a cuneiform sign which represents a word in the spoken language. Assyrian, babylonian, sumerian translator created slashdot. Although ningishzida was a power of the netherworld, where he held the office of throne bearer, he seems to have originally been a tree god, for his name apparently means lord.
Electronic pennsylvania sumerian dictionary book of mormon. The sumerian scribes must have noticed that the difficulty of division by 7 is based on this fact, for we know that the numbers 2, 3, and 5 were occasionally called aragubba normal factor5 and 17 0. The collapse of the ancient akkadian empire and climate change felisha whitehead and dr. Something like this would be great for translating interesting historical records like. Search terms are looked up in epsd, the sumerian dictionary, if dictionary is selected on the left. The problem with almost any conventionalized database is that sumerian texts are really threedimensional, and any twodimensional projection is unlikely to capture all the information in the actual tablet without using conventional signs to indicate the strokes. The sumerian dictionary of the university museum of the university of pennsylvania, volume 2. Almost 4,000 years ago, a young scribe sat in a sunny courtyard in the ancient city of. University museum, 1922, by edward chiera pdf at etana. The sumerian dictionary of the university museum of the. Therefore i am wondering if anyone versed in sumerian would like to coauthor and consult me on the darker moments of sumerian writing. The concept of mes refers to set of ordinances or decrees as defined by the gods in sumerian mythology, a me sumerian, conventionally pronounced m. Ni, na human being, he, she, that one, self, body in he, she nud, nad to lie with sivans work on the northwest semitic. Historical and religious texts from the temple library of nippur miinchen, 1914.
The origin of the mystical number seven in mesopotamian. Support for etana has been provided by funding from the andrew w. Ancient aliens ancient history art history ancient mesopotamia ancient civilizations ancient mysteries ancient artifacts alphabet ancient art. Loganathan, 2004 there are similarities or identities in the grammatical particles especially the cases, post positions, prepositions and so forth between sumerian and tamil and which would go to show most certainly that sumerian is archaic tamil. Sumerian and modern latvian are separated by 5000 years at least, so that perfect matches should not be expected in all cases. The genesis of the electronic pennsylvania sumerian dictionary.
Sumerian and indoeuropean lexical equivalences lz with latvian. Sumerians were the first people in mesopotamia to build large temples. A sumerian hymn to nergal that also features the name erra survives etcsl 4. The pennsylvania sumerian dictionary is a project to compile a comprehensive dictionary of the sumerian language. More than half of these tablets are either buns or type ii tablets.
Sumerian family tree the grand assembiy of the annnnaki, essentially the anily tree ef the ruling. Sumerian grammar bibliography compiled by carsten peust, 2017 intended to be complete from 1970 on, selective prior to that date. Sumerian civilization questions flashcards quizlet. Erras associations with nergal are attested as early as the old akkadian period ca. Sandra yuter department of marine, earth, and atmospheric sciences, north carolina state university i. Its literature, which is made up almost entirely of poetry, was lost for nearly two millennia. It would be nice if mugsars home could be our local university of nsw, with affiliation to a high school where tara might be going 2015year 7 like sydney girls or randwick girls. Sumerian dictionary of the university of pennsylvania museum volume a part 3. It makes our dictionary english sumerian real, as it is created by native speakers people, that uses language for every day. In addition, we are developing tools and datasets for working with the sumerian language and its textcorpora. Welcome to the website of the pennsylvania sumerian dictionary project psd. The situation back in the 1980s was that no modern dictionary of sumerian existed.
For example, to translate sea i need to understand what means, and to do that, i must basically find out what means, and i find it almost impossible to do, even using the sumerian freq dictionary. The electronic text corpus of sumerian literature, by the faculty of oriental studies, university of oxford. The collapse of the ancient akkadian empire and climate change. What is the abbreviation for electronic pennsylvania sumerian dictionary. Help us in creating the largest english sumerian dictionary online. An international authority on sumerian culture, jeremy black here provides an introduction to the worlds oldest poetry.
Glosbe is a collaborative project and every one can add and remove translations. The sumerians did not have an alphabet as we know it, but they had developed a syllabary. It concludes with a sketch of a number of theo logical, ethical, and literary ideas of the sumerians which seem. An address is provided only if not easily retrievable by search engines. Download the sumerian lexicon as a word for windows 6. Upon completing this introduction, the student will be well prepared to progress to sign learning and reading of texts. Add the font to your installed windows fonts at start, settings, control panel, fonts. University of pennsylvania museum, 1917, by stephen langdon pdf at etana items below if any are from related and broader terms. Hi all i have been reading up on the sumerians, there is so much knowledge out there which is truly amazing and a bit fantastical, but still my thirst for knowledge on this subject matter has enveloped me and im keen to learn more. The pennsylvania sumerian dictionary university of pennsylvania. Drjackson writes a new online translator that can translate assyrian, babylonian, sumerian and egyptian hieroglyphics 1 of the 3 types anyway has been developed.
Download pdf the sumerian dictionary of the university. City centers were dominated by their temples, the largest and most impressive buildings in sumer. Download the sumerian dictionary of the university museum of the university of pennsylvania or read the sumerian dictionary of the university museum of the university of pennsylvania online. The particle of negation in sumerian and tamil dr k. It is run out of the university of pennsylvanias museum of archaeology and anthropology and funded by both private donors and the national endowment for the humanities. In a relief of her eponymous goddess from carchemish, kubaba is shown with a pomegranate in her right hand. Help us in creating the largest englishsumerian dictionary online.
The pennsylvania sumerian dictionary, by babylonian section of the university of pennsylvania, museum of anthropology and archaeology. Dun 4 warp, lay a warp in weaving dun 5, du 9 to butter dun 5, du 9 complain, sway, stagger dun, du 24 to scrape, dig a field, furrow, hole, to heap, pile up, to open. Oracc linguistic annotation for sumerian this document provides an overview of languagespecific annotation conventions for sumerian used in oracc. Mellon foundation 800 to 202, 601 to 802 and the national science foundation. The pennsylvania sumerian dictionary project is carried out in the babylonian section of the university of pennsylvania museum of anthropology and archaeology. Sjoberg, with his deep interest in philology, seized the opportunity offered by the tools division of the national endowment for the humanities and applied for a major grant to write the pennsylvania sumerian dictionary. The penn sumerian dictionary will be much more than a list of sumerian words and their english meanings. Vocabulary studies are not normally included, with some exceptions for highly grammaticalized words. I have devised a crossapplication of this simple but informative method for cvc languages such as bantu and sumerian where there are few stems with 4consonant but quite a few stems with more than one unrelated meaning. The pennsylvania sumerian dictionary psd is a project to compile a comprehensive dictionary of the sumerian language. Sumerian dictionary every letter must be pronounced. Download the same contents in a nonexecutable zip file. Home abzu search epsd electronic pennsylvania sumerian dictionary epsd electronic pennsylvania sumerian dictionary url.
Ningishzida, in mesopotamian religion, sumerian deity, city god of gishbanda, near ur in the southern orchard region. Dunas long u warp in weaving, feather bedduonaduonis uo butter churn or tubduna, dunet short u drone, sway, staggerduna palatal n mass of mud, moist earth. Introduction and background the ancient akkadian empire is one of the oldest empires in the world. Sumerian is the language of the first laws ever written those of urnamma, 21st century bce and of the earliest literary compositions telling the deeds of legendary kings lugalbanda, enmerkar, gilgamesh. Steve tinney is focusing his efforts on bringing sumerian online. We focus here on the dataentry view of linguistic annotation giving only enough additional technical background to ensure that correct annotation of atf files can be carried out. Vowels a as in father e as in whey i as in antique o as in boat but rarely found u as in zulu consonants most consonants are basically the same as in english. Sumerian dictionary of the university of pennsylvania. Sumerian and indoeuropean lexical equivalences lz with.
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