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Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary
Guide to the Ancient Sumerian
Language
A Monumental Step For Sumerology
With 6,400 entries, this is the most complete available lexicon of ancient
Sumerian vocabulary. It replaces version 3 of the authors online Sumerian
Lexicon, which has served an audience of over 380,000 visitors 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
worlds first urban civilisation, cultural and linguistic archaeologists will
discover a wealth of information for research.

Personal Review: Sumerian Lexicon: A Dictionary Guide to the
Ancient Sumerian Language
This volume is a brilliant and succinct compilation of Sumerian literary
vocabulary, and is an indispensable reference for all students of
Assyriology and Sumerology.
The most noteworthy change in this version of the lexicon, is the
alphabetization of all entries. In previous on-line editions, the lexicon was
organized by syllabic groups, which was most useful for observing the
development of Sumerian over the ages. The most fundamental words of
the language were the simplest syllables. As their culture developed and
progressed, more and more complex words were developed, usually by
agglutination and/or contraction of existing words. However, this
organization made the lexicon somewhat tedious to flip through, and for
most purposes, this edition far surpasses the previous ones. Those
wishing to see the development of the language can still view the previous
version on-line.
Even if this was not the only 'complete' lexicon of the Sumerian language
in print, it is still - and will be for some time - the one to get and go to first.
Halloran's commitment to this project really shines through here, and the
publication of this volume is a definite and monumental step forward for the
studies of this ancient, pre-Semitic culture of Mesopotamia.
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