Scribal Practices

Here’s a recent book review of John Halloran’s Sumerian lexicon, which is the revised and expanded print version of his online lexicon:

John Halloran (ed.), Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the Ancient Sumerian Language (Oakville, Conn.: David Brown, 2006); pp. xiv + 318; Paperback; $79

Description: With 6,400 entries, this is the most complete available lexicon of ancient Sumerian vocabulary. It replaces version 3 of the author’s Sumerian Lexicon, which has served an audience of over 380,000 visitors at the web site www.sumerian.org since 1999. This published version adds over 2,600 new entries, and corrects or expands many of the previous entries. Also, following the express wish of a majority of online lexicon users, it has merged together and sorted the logogram words and the compound words into purely alphabetical order. This book will be an indispensable reference for anyone trying to translate Sumerian texts. Also, due to the historical position of ancient Sumer as the world’s first urban civilization, cultural and linguistic archaeologists will discover a wealth of information for research.

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Images of the Dead Sea Scrolls (all of them, apparently) will be placed online in the near future.

For real - check it out.

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To view the PowerPoint, you must download BOTH fonts:

• Coptic TTF
• SPAchmim TTF

The fonts are unnecessary for the video.

Both files have also been archived in their respective indexes on this site.

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This discovery has been making the headlines recently. No doubt it will be an item of discussion at the November ASOR and SBL meetings (= American Schools of Oriental Research; Society of Biblical Literature).

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Here are the newest PowerPoint and Video files for Egyptian biliterals.

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Here’s the next installment of PowerPoints and videos of Egyptian biliterals - the second set:

• PowerPoint Biliterals 2
  
• Video Biliterals 2
  

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I’ll be making a series of PowerPoints and videos of Egyptian biliterals and triliterals. Here are the first:

• PowerPoint Biliterals 1
• Video Biliterals 1

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Pretty interesting story - who knows if the carvings are modern?

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Courtesy of the awilum.com blog by Charles Halton. Follow the link.

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