Relating to the question of the origin of the Sumerian. Have archaeologists never found Sumerian graves and by these being able to extract DNA to determine where in the world the Sumerians might have come from? 🧬

I need help with turning these symbols into unicode text for a design I'm working on, all help is highly appreciated!

Hola a todos. Hace algún tiempo, compartí con ustedes mi libro de gramática sumeria para principiantes, y me dio muchísimo gusto la buena recepción y los comentarios que dejaron. ¡Gracias por eso! También tuvo muy buena acogida en Amazon.

Junto con el desarrollo de aquel libro anterior, estuve trabajando en otro proyecto que acabo de terminar: un diccionario sumerio. Trabajé en ambos libros al mismo tiempo, y hoy puedo compartirles que el diccionario ya está publicado, en las versiones tanto en español como en inglés.

Características clave:

- Más de 3,800 entradas, basadas en las entradas del ePSD2.

- Incluye signos cuneiformes para cada entrada, una característica que no es común en los diccionarios sumerios.

- Un apéndice temático con 18 categorías amplias, que te permite buscar vocabulario por campo semántico.

Puedes ver un adelanto de varias secciones en Amazon para echarle un vistazo más de cerca. Si lo checas, me encantaría saber qué te parece.

Enlace (versión en español):

Enlace (versión en inglés):

Lo publiqué hoy en Amazon, y entre hoy y mañana estará disponible para la venta. Mi intención, tal como se comenta en la introducción del libro, es acercar una selección de 3800 entradas de ePSD2 a principiantes e intermedios, con el objetivo de tener una versión física y seleccionada de dicho diccionario digital, además de estar en formato bidireccional y con anexos. Espero que este libro te sea de muchísima utilidad.

Since Akkadians adopted the cuneiform writing system from Sumerian, the phonology could have been partly obscured by it. Do you believe in/ find the following (im)plausible?

-presence of guttural consonants other than /x/

-multiple different sibilant types, or perhaps lateral fricatives

I am wanting to learn more so I can compare the ancient Near East religions to the stories, religious structures, rituals, and laws that influeneced the Old Teatament authors.

Hi there, thanks for reading! Your time is greatly appreciated.

Could you help me translate the phrase "Bad cause, bad effect."?

As the title suggest, I'm writing a science fiction novel where, through the wonders of advanced technology, the Sumerian language has been reconstructed. This is a background element for my world-building, and there is currently one core philosophy/phrase I need translated.

I know we will likely never have a perfect translation or flawless spoken reconstruction, but thankfully this is a science fiction novel so we do have some grace to get creative! What would this sentence look like in transliteration (and cuneiform, if possible), and how might we speculate it sounded?

Thank you so much for any help you can provide - If anyone is interested in consulting on more translations for this project in the future, I'd love to connect. :)

Due to constant disruption in my life I have been studying Akkadian on and off for the past 3 years and never being able to get too far. My life has calmed down massively since and i've decided to get back into studying and this time more seriously.

This however feels daunting as I know Assyriology is a fast moving study and I am worried if the resources I have is insufficient. Is John Huehnergard's book still the best? Are there better English grammars? Are there Exciting new things to translate? Is there a new amazing online resource? are questions I find myself asking myself, so I ask what are my best resources to start my studying and hopefully continue it further.

I am trying to translate some of the Amarna Letters for a class and I'm currently doing EA 038. I am stuck on the word zi-ih-ra. Does anyone know what this word means? I can't seem to find it in any dictionary.

010 e-nu-ma LU₂.MEŠ ša KUR lu-uk-ki
011 ša-at-ta ša-ta-ma i-na KUR-ia ala zi-iḫ-ra
012 i-le₂-qe₃

I want to translate the sentence "Ten Thousand Correct Actions" into Akkadian(preferably Babylonian) and get the Cuneiform of it. I don't think online translators are able to translate such a weird sentence accurately, could someone help me? or point to an online translator that is somewhat decent?

“A hymn to Nisaba

This hymn describes the great goddess Nisaba as patron deity of scribes and
accountants. She carries a lapis lazuli tablet, the colour of the night sky, from
which she reads the future through celestial omens.”

“She carries a lapis lazuli tablet, the colour of the night sky” why is the tablet of this particular colour and why does a scribe goddess of corn read omens out of the night sky?

1- Is the name Daniel was called by the Babylonians Belteshazzar in Daniel 1:7, Daniel 4:9, Daniel 4:18, Daniel 5:12 a real name? Are there many names in Akkadian that have “Belte” in them in reference to Daniel 1:7? Is “Belte” for both male and female? The name Belteshazzar may have been translated incorrectly in Daniel 1:7, Daniel 4:9, Daniel 4:18, Daniel 5:12 where the name that the Babylonian’s called Daniel was Belshazzar. Or the Israelites heard Daniel’s name wrong when the Babylonians said Daniel’s name would be Belshazzar in Babylon. I believe that the whole story was made up of Daniel being renamed to Belteshazzar.

2- Do you have a list, book, or article of the list of Akkadian and Babylonian names? Do you have a book of a list of names from ancient history? I found a website with around 120 Babylonian names and a website with 40 Akkadian names.

3- Which names in the Old Testament are from which areas of the Middle East? Which names are Akkadian? Which names are Arabian?

Thanks

I was wondering if anyone more knowledgeable in Babylonian could help me understand the name for the Bull of Heaven in the Standard Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Looking at the Electronic Babylonian Library, the sources has the Bull listed as

𒀯𒄞𒀭𒈾 [MUL.GU4.AN.NA] (Source: https://www.ebl.lmu.de/tools/dictionary/al%C3%BB%20I)

However, there is also entry present which simply lists

𒄞𒀭𒈾 [GU4.AN.NA] (Source: https://www.ebl.lmu.de/tools/signs/%7CGUD.AN.NA%7C)

Everything I've found for the text itself is translated, transliterated, or hand drawn based off the tablets and fragments used to put together the Standard Babylonian version. Given that none are rendered completely in unicode cuneiform, I have two questions:

Does anyone know which of these two writings is used more commonly throughout the versions of Tablet VI that have been found and transcribed?

I understand that 𒀯𒄞𒀭𒈾 is also the name for the constellation Taurus, but is there a meaningful difference between this writing and 𒄞𒀭𒈾?

Es una colección de tablillas sumerias y tablillas de otras civilizaciones, impresas en 3D. Hay más en camino. Ahora mismo estoy imprimiendo otra tablilla sumeria sobre un pedido de grano del periodo Ur III. Me encanta imprimirlas a tamaño real y con una altura de capa muy bajita, para que se emulen lo más posible a una real. Lo raro de todo esto es que puedo leer perfectamente los símbolos cuneiformes en papel, pero me cuesta muchísimo distinguirlos en las tablillas. Están todas muy apretadas, y si la tablilla está gastada, pues buena suerte leyéndola. Pero de verdad que es bien bonita.