Add to ORKGInternational audienceIt may come as a surprise to some readers, and perhaps even to some trained Assyriologists, to learn that at some point in the 13th century bc, a few adventurous Ugaritic scribes experimented with writing Akkadian magical texts in the local cuneiform alphabet. This chapter presents a survey of this intriguing dossier, retracing major advances in the history of its study and highlighting those (considerable) interpretational problems which remain
Stele of Assurnasirpal II ( Reign: 883-859 B. C.). In: Layard, A. H., Discoveries in the ruins of Ni...
Scholars trace the roots of most historical and modern alphabets in the Near East and Europe, includ...
The aim of this article is to discuss several groups of sources which are of special interest regard...
International audienceIt may come as a surprise to some readers, and perhaps even to some trained As...
International audienceIt may come as a surprise to some readers, and perhaps even to some trained As...
The written history of the Ancient Near East began when cuneiform was invented, ca 3200 BCE. Cuneifo...
The earliest, but scarce, evidence of cuneiform signs being used syllabically to write Akkadian word...
This section of the monograph examines the preconditions for the emergence of the first writings, th...
The tell of Ras Shamra on the Mediterranean coast of Syria has yielded thousands of cuneiform tablet...
The following study examines Canaano-Akkadian, the unique cuneiform system used in the southern Leva...
Akkadian, an ancient Semitic language from Mesopotamia written in the cuneiform script, wasemployed ...
The cuneiform writing system, as used by the Hittites in Anatolia of the 2nd millennium BC to write ...
Cuneiform is the name of various writing systems in use throughout the Middle East from the end of t...
With the aim of addressing the questions of “how” and “why” the Ugaritic alphabet was created, two k...
Ugarit was a highly cosmopolitan, multilingual and multiscript city at the intersection of several m...
Stele of Assurnasirpal II ( Reign: 883-859 B. C.). In: Layard, A. H., Discoveries in the ruins of Ni...
Scholars trace the roots of most historical and modern alphabets in the Near East and Europe, includ...
The aim of this article is to discuss several groups of sources which are of special interest regard...
International audienceIt may come as a surprise to some readers, and perhaps even to some trained As...
International audienceIt may come as a surprise to some readers, and perhaps even to some trained As...
The written history of the Ancient Near East began when cuneiform was invented, ca 3200 BCE. Cuneifo...
The earliest, but scarce, evidence of cuneiform signs being used syllabically to write Akkadian word...
This section of the monograph examines the preconditions for the emergence of the first writings, th...
The tell of Ras Shamra on the Mediterranean coast of Syria has yielded thousands of cuneiform tablet...
The following study examines Canaano-Akkadian, the unique cuneiform system used in the southern Leva...
Akkadian, an ancient Semitic language from Mesopotamia written in the cuneiform script, wasemployed ...
The cuneiform writing system, as used by the Hittites in Anatolia of the 2nd millennium BC to write ...
Cuneiform is the name of various writing systems in use throughout the Middle East from the end of t...
With the aim of addressing the questions of “how” and “why” the Ugaritic alphabet was created, two k...
Ugarit was a highly cosmopolitan, multilingual and multiscript city at the intersection of several m...
Stele of Assurnasirpal II ( Reign: 883-859 B. C.). In: Layard, A. H., Discoveries in the ruins of Ni...
Scholars trace the roots of most historical and modern alphabets in the Near East and Europe, includ...
The aim of this article is to discuss several groups of sources which are of special interest regard...