Search results for "Akkadian language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- practices of the region. The Akkadian language became the lingua franca ... The Akkadian language became the lingua franca of commerce and diplomacy ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Sargon I, also known as Sargon of Akkad or Sargon the Great (Akkadian: ... became vassals of Akkad, and the Akkadian language made official. In fact ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- of the empire: Old Persian, Akkadian (language used in Babylon), and ... techniques used to decipher the Akkadian language have never been fully ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- and in Eblaite—a previously unknown Semitic language. destroyed c. 2200 B.C.E. by the emerging Akkadian empire, being rebuilt about ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 17:22, 11 October 2020
- Hammurabi (Akkadian from Amorite ˤAmmurāpi, "the kinsman is ... Unlike earlier laws, it was written in Akkadian, the daily language of Babylon ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
- in four languages: Sumerian, Hurrian, Akkadian, and Ugaritic (of which ... of writing the widely used diplomatic language of Akkadian in cuneiform—as ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- Amorite (Sumerian Mar.tu, Akkadian Amurrūm, Egyptian Amar, Hebrew ... For the Akkadian kings, Mar.tu was one of the "Four Quarters ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- dgn (probably vocalized as Dagnu), and in Akkadian as Dagana, Daguna. ... texts but becomes prominent only in later Akkadian inscriptions as a powerful ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- is an eighteenth century B.C.E. Akkadian epic, named after its human ... epic is written on three tablets in Akkadian, the language of ancient Babylon. ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- (c. twenty-third century B.C.E.) was an Akkadian princess and high priestess ... to have assisted in the merging of the Akkadian Ishtar with the Sumerian Inanna. ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- name when in liturgical use. In everyday language, the word Hashem ("The ... In English language bibles, YHWH is traditionally translated as "The ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- Enlil appears frequently in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite, and other Mesopotamian clay and stone tablets. His name was sometimes ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- Sennacherib (in Akkadian Śïn-ahhe-eriba "(The moon god) Śïn has Replaced (Lost) Brothers for Me") was the son of Sargon II, whom ...9 KB (1,470 words) - 09:47, 26 January 2023
- many other Arabic words in the English language, cumin was acquired through ... quot; has the same meaning as the English language phrase "carrying coals ...12 KB (1,736 words) - 19:46, 11 May 2020
- Ashurbanipal (Akkadian: Aššur-bāni-apli; 685 B.C.E. – 627 B.C ... kings who could read cuneiform script in Akkadian and Sumerian and claimed ...17 KB (2,527 words) - 22:19, 8 November 2021
- In Mesopotamian religion Shamash was the Akkadian name of the sun ... pantheon, Nanna (known as Sin in Akkadian) generally takes precedence ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- and poems integrated into a longer Akkadian epic about the hero-king ... . let us go to the world of men," in language reminiscent of the serpent ...20 KB (3,247 words) - 12:42, 22 May 2024
- clear, though it is possibly related to the Akkadian khabbaququ (the name of a fragrant plant) or the Hebrew root חבק, meaning "embrace." ...13 KB (2,086 words) - 00:31, 30 July 2023
- cherubim is cognate with the Assyrian term karabu, Akkadian term kuribu, and Babylonian term karabu; the Assyrian term means 'great, mighty' ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- In the writings of the Akkadian princess and priestess Enheduanna ... Sumerian E = House, SAG = Sacred, Ila (Akkadian) = Goddess), was located ...14 KB (2,349 words) - 04:51, 15 November 2022
