Concise Dictionary of Akkadian

by Jeremy A. Black, Andrew R. George, Nicholas Postgate

The authorship of this new dictionary is enough to state that no Akkadianist will want to be without it. It is incredibly good value for money.

Genres: Language, Dictionaries

Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

The University of Oxford, Oriental Studies, former faculty member .

Jeremy Allen Black, BA, BPhil, MA, DPhil (1 September 1951 – Oxford 28 April 2004) was a British Assyriologist and Sumerologist, founder of the online Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.[1]

Not to be confused with Jeremy Black https://www.goodreads.com/author/show..., History professor at Oxford

Reviews

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

Much to the professor's chagrin, this book held many of the answers the Grammar of Akkadian left out. You have multiple meanings and an indexing of logograms, which is ever so useful when it comes to translating the hybrid logogram-cuneiform pieces.