Sun Sentinel

SUMERIAN NOT SPOKEN ANYMORE BUT ITS DICTIONARY’S A HOT ITEM

It’s not on any best-seller list, but The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary is a hot item, selling beyond its editors’ wildest expectations.Some 750 copies of the English translation of the first ...
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Historical dictionary of Mesopotamia / Gwendolyn Leick

"The Greek name Mesopotamia means "land between the rivers." Romans used this term for the area between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, from the south Anatolian mountains ranges to the Persian Gulf, ...
Chicago Tribune

RESEARCHERS UNRAVEL LONG-LOST LANGUAGE

Any decade now, the Sumerian Dictionary of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania will be finished. “Some days they ask me,” Ake Sjoberg says, “which volume do I want for a memorial?” ...
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The Sumerian dictionary of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania / edited by Åke W. Sjöberg with the collaboration of Hermann Behrens ... [et al.]

"Sponsoring institutions: American Oriental Society ... [and others]"--T.p. verso. siris_sil_848831 ...