This comparison of data from Gulf of Oman marine sediments and archeological findings shows the synchrony of the collapse of the Akkadian empire with severe climatic changes, including the abrupt onset of drought as indicated by dust deposition.

Are you fluent in Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform of all types?

Here is a GREAT job.

Cylinder Seal Of Sharkalisharri

The 5th King of Akkad

[Louvre Museum]

wapeii:

Comparison Akkadian - Arabic with english translation

(Source: al3ayla)

wapeii:

Akkadian - Arabic comparison with English translation

(Source: al3ayla)

ziqiqum:

Last night, I couldn’t figure out mu-du-ú, in line seven.  I actually went to bed worrying over it and the suggestion of mūdû came to me sometime before I fell asleep.  I think I was confused because I would have expected mūdû to agree with LÚ.MEŠ not only in case, but in number.

This afternoon I went back through Huehnergard’s section on Participles (A Grammar of Akkadian, 20.1) and indeed he does note that “A Participle modifying a plural noun, when the former stands in the bound form before another noun, may be singular.”

Well now, at least, I’m awīlum mūdû awātim annītim.  I’ll never make that mistake again.

Akkadian deities game

markusim:

The basic Akkadian syllabary… if only it was this simple.

Stele of Naram-Sin

[Istanbul Archeological Museum]