Search results for "Sumerian language" - New World Encyclopedia
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- In Sumerian mythology and later in the religions of Assyria and Babylonia ... "An" can be translated from the Sumerian as "high one ...10 KB (1,744 words) - 21:24, 24 March 2024
- Commerce was considered very important in Sumerian Civilization, so much so ... became associated with many legends. The Sumerian literature known as "the ...10 KB (1,482 words) - 02:26, 21 April 2023
- has been dubbed the "Shakespeare of Sumerian literature." merging of the Akkadian Ishtar with the Sumerian Inanna. ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- dated from around 2250 B.C.E., in Sumerian and in Eblaite—a previously ... appears to have included both Semitic and Sumerian influences, and many ancient ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 17:22, 11 October 2020
- In Sumerian mythology, Ninhursag (NIN.URSAG) was the earth and mother ... a leash. She is the tutelary deity to several Sumerian rulers. ...14 KB (2,349 words) - 04:51, 15 November 2022
- Elamite, Hattic, Hittite, Hurrian, Luwian, Sumerian, Urartian ... The Sumerian script was adapted for the writing of the Akkadian, Elamite ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 06:45, 12 January 2024
- practices of the region. The Akkadian language became the lingua franca ... One of them, contemporary with the last Sumerian ruler, Lugal-Zage-Si, was ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Amorite (Sumerian Mar.tu, Akkadian Amurrūm, Egyptian Amar, Hebrew ... In the earliest Sumerian sources, beginning about 2400 B.C.E., the ...16 KB (2,552 words) - 17:17, 26 July 2023
- a form of communication that is free of language-specific elements and thus ... in Mesopotamia and predated the famous Sumerian cuneiforms (the oldest of ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- Enki was a major deity in Sumerian mythology, later known as Ea in ... is "Lord of the Earth." The Sumerian, en was a title equivalent ...18 KB (3,043 words) - 08:34, 5 February 2022
- the son of an idol manufacturer in the Sumerian city of Ur, and so could ... #039;s voluminous works, he uses Semitic language etymology and translations ...15 KB (2,395 words) - 16:20, 11 November 2022
- quot; applies to all speakers of the Sumerian language. Sumer together with ... water for farming and drinking. The Sumerian language has many terms for ...37 KB (5,525 words) - 22:21, 26 February 2023
- at Ugarit were written in four languages: Sumerian, Hurrian, Akkadian, and ... of writing the widely used diplomatic language of Akkadian in cuneiform—as ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- The ancient royal Sumerian tombs of Ur, located near the Euphrates ... * Much of Sumerian and Akkadian poetry makes reference to lapis lazuli ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 22:35, 22 October 2022
- name of the sun god, corresponding to Sumerian Utu. In mythology, Shamash ... * Finkel, Irving L., and Markham J. Geller. Sumerian Gods and Their ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- was the name of a major Mesopotamian deity. In early Sumerian inscriptions ... Enlil appears frequently in ancient Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- 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
- Dagan is mentioned occasionally in early Sumerian texts but becomes prominent only in later Akkadian inscriptions as a powerful and warlike protector ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- King Atrahasis is listed in the Sumerian king list as one of the monarchs ... written on three tablets in Akkadian, the language of ancient Babylon. ...11 KB (1,791 words) - 19:31, 30 November 2021
- excavations at the royal cemetery in the Sumerian city of Ur in the 1920s ... By 2000 B.C.E., Sumerian and Babylonian cultures began delineating ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
