Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
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State archives of AssyriaAssyriaAssyria was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the mid–23rd century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history. It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur...
cuneiformCuneiform scriptCuneiform script )) is one of the earliest known forms of written expression. Emerging in Sumer around the 30th century BC, with predecessors reaching into the late 4th millennium , cuneiform writing began as a system of pictographs...
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The following works are published in the series: State Archives of Assyria Cuneiform Texts:- 1997–SAACT-Volume I..---The Standard BabylonBabylonBabylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad...
ian Epic of GilgameshEpic of GilgameshEpic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Mesopotamia and is among the earliest known works of literature. Scholars believe that it originated as a series of Sumerian legends and poems about the protagonist of the story, Gilgamesh king of Uruk, which were fashioned into a longer Akkadian epic much...
, by Simo ParpolaSimo ParpolaSimo Parpola is a Finnish archaeologist, currently professor of Assyriology at the University of Helsinki. He specialized in epigraphy of the Akkadian language, and has been working on the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project since 1987...
, 1997. - 2001–SAACT-Volume II..--The Standard Babylonian EtanaEtanaEtana was an ancient, legendary Sumerian king of the city of Kish, and was, according to the Sumerian king list, one of the kings who reigned after the deluge. He is listed as the successor of Arwium, the son of Mashda, as king of Kish...
EpicEpic poetryAn epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Oral poetry may qualify as an epic, and Albert Lord and Milman Parry have argued that classical epics were fundamentally an oral poetic form...
, by Jamie R. Novotny, 2001.
State archives of Assyria studies
The following works are published in the series: State Archives of Assyria Studies:- 1992–SAAS-Volume I..----Neuassyrische GlyptikIconographyIconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images. The word iconography literally means "image writing", and comes from the Greek "image" and "to write". A secondary meaning is the painting of icons in the...
des 8.-7.Jh. v. Chr. unter besonderer Berūcksichtigung der Siegelungen auf Tafeln und Tonverschlŭsse, by Suzanne Herbordt, 1992. - 1994–SAAS-Volume II..---The EponymEponymAn eponym is the name of a person or thing, whether real or fictitious, after which a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item is named or thought to be named...
s of the Assyrian Empire 910–612 BC, by Alan MillardAlan MillardAlan Ralph Millard is Rankin Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Ancient Semitic Languages, and Honorary Senior Fellow , at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology in the University of Liverpool....
, 1994. - 1995–SAAS-Volume III..--The Use of Numbers and Quantifications in the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions, by Marco De Odorico, 1995.
- 1996–SAAS-Volume IV..--NippurNippurNippur was one of the most ancient of all the Sumerian cities. It was the special seat of the worship of the Sumerian god Enlil, the "Lord Wind," ruler of the cosmos subject to An alone...
in Late Assyrian Times c. 755–612 BC, by Steven W. Cole, 1996. - 1996–SAAS-Volume V..---Neo-AssyrianAssyriaAssyria was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the mid–23rd century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history. It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur...
Judicial Procedures, by Remko Jas, 1996. - 1997–SAAS-Volume VI..--Die neuassyrischen Privatrechtsurkunden als Quelle fŭr Mensch und Umwelt, by Karen Radner, 1997.
- 1998–SAAS-Volume VII..-References to ProphecyProphecyProphecy is a process in which one or more messages that have been communicated to a prophet are then communicated to others. Such messages typically involve divine inspiration, interpretation, or revelation of conditioned events to come as well as testimonies or repeated revelations that the...
in Neo-Assyrian Sources, by Martti Nissinen, 1998. - 1998–SAAS-Volume VIII..-Die Annalen des Jahres 711 v. Chr. nach Prismenfragmenten aus NineveNinevehNineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and capital of the Neo Assyrian Empire. Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq....
und AssurAssurAssur , was one of the capitals of ancient Assyria. The remains of the city are situated on the western bank of river Tigris, north of the confluence with the tributary Little Zab river, in modern day Iraq, more precisely in the Al-Shirqat District .Assur is also...
, by Andreas Fuchs, 1998. - 1999–SAAS-Volume IX..---The Role of Naqia/Zakutu in SargonidSargonSargon is an Assyrian name, originally Šarru-kin , which may refer to:- People :*Sargon of Akkad , also known as Sargon the Great or Sargon I, Mesopotamian king...
Politics, by Sarah C. Melville, 1999. - 1999–SAAS-Volume X..----Herrschaftswissen in Mesopotamien:MesopotamiaMesopotamia is a toponym for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and southwestern Iran.Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the...
Formen der Kommunikation zwischen Gott und Kǒnig im 2. und 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr, by Beate Pongratz-Leisten, 1999. - 2000–SAAS-Volume XI..---The King's Magnates; A Study of the Highest Officials of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, by Raija Mattila, 2000.
- 2000–SAAS-Volume XII..--A Survey of Neo-ElamiteElamElam was an ancient civilization located in what is now southwest Iran. Elam was centered in the far west and the southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of Khuzestan and Ilam Province, as well as a small part of southern Iraq...
History, by Matthew W. Waters, 2000. - 2000–SAAS-Volume XIII..-A Sketch of Neo-Assyrian GrammarGrammarIn linguistics, grammar is the set of structural rules that govern the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language. The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes morphology, syntax, and phonology, often complemented by phonetics, semantics,...
, by Jaakko Hämeen-AnttilaJaakko Hämeen-AnttilaJaakko Hämeen-Anttila is a Finnish academic researcher, serving as a professor of the Arabic language and Islamic studies at the University of Helsinki. He is one of the leading researchers of Islam in Finland. He has written many popular books on Islamic culture, history and poetry...
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