I happened upon a useful font set for Old Babylonian last night, available here, thus the new header. I’ve known for a while that there were a couple of Neo-Akkadian typefaces on the Internet, either free or for-pay, but I didn’t know someone had created one for Ur III-era cursive.
The .zip file contains a sign index, listing them according to Rykle Borger’s Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon, so it might be helpful to have that volume handy.
For years, I’ve idly searched for a reasonably-priced edition of René Labat’s Manuel d’Epigraphie Akkadienne and this week, I found it.
Two words, NOT DISAPPOINTED.
Reprinted infrequently since 1948, the sixth edition was revised and republished in 1995. Even when the day arrives when it’s truly superseded by a comprehensive, modern sign-list, this will still be a treasure.
Print could never be as beautiful as this cursive, hand-written text.
Notes for a study guide of Akkadian verbs I’m working on.
Hopefully, the final product will be neater and more immediately decipherable.
I ran across this used “L” volume of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary last week. Totally unlooked for, the price of the book was actually cheaper than the shipping and I don’t regret the purchase one bit.
For those who don’t know, the CAD is a wonderful catalog of virtually every Akkadian word, with notes and examples that go on for pages. The final volume was released last year; the dictionary was over fifty years in the making.
It’s available online, for free, here.
And just so you know, this print volume smells as perfect as you’d expect an old volume of an Akkadian dictionary to smell.
Daniel Ridgway Knight, Girl by a Stream, Flanders, c.1890.
Mind the Gap cover
Claude Monet - The Artist’s Garden at Giverny (c. 1900)
Frantisek Kupka - “Babylon” , c.1906Národní Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic
My girlfriend lives kinda far away and this is cute.
A naff comic by yours truly! It’s a joke about terrible loot from awful dungeons....
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