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A Full Morphosyntactic Annotation of the State Archives of Assyria Letter Corpus
The dataset consists of a full morphosyntactic annotation of the normalized letter corpus of the State Archives of Assyria online (SAAo), plus associated metadata regarding sender, recipient, estimated date of composition, script, and dialect of Akkadian
Matthew Ong
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Recognizing written languages using symbols written in cuneiform is a tough endeavor due to the lack of information and the challenge of the process of tokenization.
Mahmood Maha +3 more
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How to Write a Hymn: Material Features in Manuscripts of Akkadian Poetry
This paper investigates the materiality of cuneiform tablets, with a focus on paratexts in manuscripts of Akkadian literary texts, especially hymns and prayers.
Rozzi, Geraldina
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Radiocarbon‐Inferred Population Trajectories for Southeastern Arabia During the Bronze Age
ABSTRACT This paper builds on previous attempts to estimate radiocarbon‐inferred population trends—although in Arabia, these attempts are few. A probabilistic reconstruction of Bronze Age (3200–1300 cal BC) demographic trends using a new data set of radiocarbon rates from across the Arabian Peninsula (n = 1280) is presented and a subset of dates (n ...
James R. P. McDonald
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The grammaticalization of manner expressions into complementizers: insights from Semitic languages
Complementation strategies in both ancient and modern Semitic languages include the use of a series of cognate complementizers typically sharing a k-element: e.g., Tigrinya käm, Modern Hebrew ki, Akkadian kī(ma) or Ge’ez kama.
Hernáiz Rodrigo
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Semi-Automatic Annotation of Babylonian Cuneiform Texts
This article presents the methods and workflow for semi-automatic linguistic annotation of Akkadian cuneiform texts and a Neo-Babylonian corpus created with them.
Tero Alstola +3 more
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The Reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic Genitive Ending and a Suggestion on its Origin
The Proto-Semitic genitive ending on triptotic nouns is commonly reconstructed as *-im (unbound state)/*-i (bound state). In Akkadian, however, this case ending is long -ī- before pronominal suffixes.
Benjamin Suchard
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ABSTRACT High‐resolution remote sensing, magnetometry, and trench stratigraphy identify a significant flood event at Lagash (modern Tell al‐Hiba) during the late Early Dynastic period (ca. 2400–2350 BC). Satellite imagery and magnetometry reveal a 90‐meter‐wide meander belt—3–15 times broader than documented canals—adjacent to primary temple districts.
Reed Goodman +8 more
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The current paper presents an artistic analysis based on the visual features for one of the most significant stone memorial Stele of “Naram-Sin” . The Victory Stele was created to commemorate Naram-Sin’s victory over Satuni king of ‘Lullubi’, a nomadic ...
Fayrouz Ibrahim
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Summary This study examines four exceptional lead boat‐shaped objects recovered from the fourteenth‐century BC Chamber Tomb ZZ at the cemetery of the cosmopolitan city of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus. A closely related lead object was also found in Stratum 1 of City Quarter 4 at Hala Sultan Tekke, dating to the early twelfth century BC.
Peter M. Fischer, Tzveta V. Manolova
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