Recently added articles from Journal of Cuneiform Studies:

INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY IN OLD ASSYRIAN SOCIETY

Jan 01, 2007; Larsen, Mogens Trolle ... During more than two centuries in the early second millennium B.C., Assyrian traders, with their base in the city Assur on the Tigris, conducted an intensive commercial operation that took them to central Anatolia more than a thousand kilometers away. Here, on the plateau of Asia Minor, they ...

ON THE OLD BABYLONIAN UNDERSTANDING OF GRAMMAR: A REEXAMINATION OF OBGT VI-X

Jan 01, 2007; Huber, Peter J ... The Old Babylonian Grammatical Texts (OBGT) in MSL IV give a detailed picture of Sumerian verbal syntax as seen through the eyes of an Old Babylonian grammarian. The picture does not necessarily correspond to any "true" Sumerian syntax. The relevance of these texts lies in the fact that they are ...

[-ATR] HARMONY AND THE VOWEL INVENTORY OF SUMERIAN

Jan 01, 2007; Smith, Eric J M ... It has long been accepted that Sumerian exhibited some form of vowel harmony, and early descriptions of Sumerian vowel harmony (Poebel 1931; Kramer 1936) framed that harmony data in the context of a six-vowel inventory. While the arguments in favor of vowel harmony are now accepted, the expanded ...