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The Ugaritic alphabet is a cuneiform script used beginning in the 15th century BC. Like most Semitic scripts, it is an abjad, where each symbol stands for a consonant, leaving the reader to supply the appropriate vowel. Although it appears similar to Mesopotamian cuneiform (whose writing techniques it borrowed), its symbols and symbol meanings ...
Limba akkadiană (numită și asiro-babiloniană; akkadû, 𒀝𒅗𒁺𒌑 ak-ka-du-u2, scris cu logograme: 𒌵𒆠 URIKI) este o limbă semitică vorbită în perioada antichității pe teritoriul Irakului actual. Este cea mai veche limbă semitică atestată, formând ramura de Nord-Est a acestei familii . Akkadiana a fost una din limbile ...
Ang wikang Akkadiyo ( lišānum akkadītum, 𒀝𒂵𒌈 ak.kADû) ( Akkadian, Accadian, Assyro-Babylonian) [1] ay isang ekstinkt na wikang Semitiko (bahagi ng pamilya ng wikang Aproasyatiko) na sinalita sa sinaunang Mesopotamia. Ito ang pinakamaagang pinatunayang wikang Semitiko. [2] Ito ay gumamit ng sistema ng pagsulat na kuneiporma na ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh ( / ˈɡɪlɡəmɛʃ /) [2] is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh (formerly read as Sumerian "Bilgames" [3] ), king of Uruk, some of which may date back to the Third Dynasty of Ur ( c. 2100 BC ). [1]
ʼĒl (/ ɛ l / EL; also ' Il, Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎍 ʾīlu; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤋 ʾīl; Hebrew: אֵל ʾēl; Syriac: ܐܺܝܠ ʾīyl; Arabic: إل ʾil or إله ʾilāh [clarification needed]; cognate to Akkadian: 𒀭, romanized: ilu) is a Northwest Semitic word meaning 'god' or 'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities.
Ancient history. Babylonia ( / ˌbæbɪˈloʊniə /; Akkadian: 𒆳𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠, māt Akkadī) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Syria and Iran ). It emerged as an Akkadian populated but Amorite -ruled state c. 1894 BC.
Sumer was conquered by the Semitic-speaking kings of the Akkadian Empire around 2270 BC (short chronology), but Sumerian continued as a sacred language. Native Sumerian rule re-emerged for about a century in the Third Dynasty of Ur at approximately 2100–2000 BC, but the Akkadian language also remained in use for some time.
