Business Documents of Murashû Sons of Nippur: Dated in the Reign of Artaxerxes I, 464-424 B. C (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Business Documents of Murashû Sons of Nippur: Dated in the Reign of Artaxerxes I, 464-424 B. C

The numerous proper names of our documents prove of exceptional value. To make the rich linguistic material contained in them accessible even to thos not familiar with the cuneiform writing of the originals, I have attached to this complete Concordance of Proper Names. For often enough it happens tha1 important material is not found in the names of witnesses and scribes, usually similar publications, but in those of their fathers and in the many other names the inscriptions. With the intention of facilitating the tiresome but essential those who are engaged in the compilation of dictionaries of Babylonian proper at least three of them are in the course of preparation - I have cited every 1 which a name occurs. In gathering the scattered material I have been able ment a great number of mutilated names, enclosed in brackets, and to restore br< of the text itself. Where a name in its alphabetical order appears for the first t Concordance I have transliterated it syllabically or ideographically, according tr ner in which it is written in the cuneiform texts. In all the other places th writing has been abandoned, the name, if intelligible, being simply divided into of which it is composed. Whenever the etymology of a name appeared certain long syllables have been marked as such.

The numerous foreign names are characterized by a little asterisk placed bet If foreign origin seemed doubtful, this asterisk has been omitted. For it seeme give rather too little than too much in a first attempt to discriminate between the B and foreign proper names of our inscriptions, especially as comparatively but litt been done for the analysis and understanding of ancient Semitic proper names.

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