Student’s Vocabulary of Akkadian in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions

T. E. Kelley teaches in the Religion Department at the University of Georgia. Raleigh Heth is Assistant Teaching Professor in Purdue University’s Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts Program and is affiliated with the Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Foreign Language departments at Purdue.

• Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations How to Use This Book Methods and Editorial Policies Chapter 1. Words Appearing More Than 600 Times Chapter 2. Worlds Appearing Between 599 and 220 Times Chapter 3. Worlds Appearing Between 219 and 125 Times Chapter 4. Worlds Appearing Between 124 and 80 Times Chapter 5. Worlds Appearing Between 79 and 50 Times Chapter 6. Worlds Appearing Between 49 and 35 Times Chapter 7. Worlds Appearing Between 34 and 26 Times Chapter 8. Worlds Appearing Between 25 and 20 Times Chapter 9. Worlds Appearing Between 19 and 15 Times Chapter 10. Worlds Appearing Between 14 and 5 Times Appendix A: Pronominal Suffixes Appendix B: Standard Babylonian Phonology Appendix C: Verb Vowel Classes Appendix D: Logogram List 1 (Sumerian- Akkadian)Appendix E: Logogram List 2 (Akkadian- Sumerian) Appendix F: List of Divine Names Appendix G: Chronology of Assyrian Rulers Appendix H: Other Views of the Data References

“This Student’s Vocabulary offers a well-structured approach to learning and memorizing the vocabulary used in Assyrian royal inscriptions. Since it is organized according the frequency of attestations for each word, students will quickly make progress in their ability to read and understand texts from this fascinating corpus—and therefore will soon start enjoying their reading. And since the most frequently used words are also frequent in other corpora, this Student’s Vocabulary also facilitates the approach to other Akkadian corpora as well and consequently will prove helpful for any student of Akkadian.”—Frauke Weiershäuser, coauthor of The Royal Inscriptions of Nabopolassar (625-605 BC) and Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC), Kings of Babylon, Part 1