And the sheer ignorance (of a military "intelligence" analyst!) of claiming no one reads and understands #Akkadian!

From #Akkadian ēkurr- 'temple' < #Sumerian É.KUR 'mountain house' (temple of the supreme god)

It's also interesting to recognize cognate *forms* and see how they're different! It took me a while to recognize that the #Akkadian infinitive akālum is cognate to #Hebrew 's infinitive absolute אָכוֹל with expected loss of mimation+case (-um) and sound shifts ā->ō and open a ->ā.

I'm learning #Akkadian, and whatever happy neurochemical is prompted by recognizing old friends, I love that seeing a cognate for a term I already know in a different Semitic language triggers the same response.
eqlum = field
Why hello, old חקל!
šemûm
Good to see you again, שמע!
#Hebrew #Aramaic

Lèse-majesté
of gods, ‘sin’, invented by
sensitive Ilu. #haiku

#Poem #Poetry #μverse #micropoetry #mesopotamian #Akkadian #personal #godlet

MEZOPOTAMYA UYGARLIKLARINDA KEDİLER youtu.be/ipRtFk6JNso

#mesopotamia #ancientmesopotamia #mesopotamiancivilization #mesopotamianhistory #sumer #sumerian #sumeriancivilization #sumerianhistory #akkad #akkadian #akkadianempire #babylon #babylonia #babylonianempire #ancientneareast

MEZOPOTAMYA UYGARLIKLARINDA KEDİLER youtu.be/ipRtFk6JNso

#mesopotamia #ancientmesopotamia #mesopotamiancivilization #mesopotamianhistory #sumer #sumerian #sumeriancivilization #sumerianhistory #akkad #akkadian #akkadianempire #babylon #babylonia #babylonianempire #ancientneareast

Akkadian Expands Leadership with Andrea Gasior as Chief Revenue Officer Akkadian welcomes Andrea Gasior as Chief Revenue Officer to enhance growth in enterprise automation and customer partnerships as they innovate their offerings.

Akkadian Expands Leadership with Andrea Gasior as Chief Revenue Officer #USA #New_York #Corporate_Leadership #growth #Akkadian

A good day for word nerds.

It took 200 yrs to translate.

Now available online.

'... scholars at the University of Chicago published a 21-volume dictionary of #Akkadian, the language used in ancient #Mesopotamia. Unspoken for 2,000 years...'

#Languages
#Dictionaries

@uchicagopress.bsky.social

Four squares each showing brown rectangular shapes of earrings and necklace pendant with gold findings

New variation on my popular cuneiform earrings, this time in gold tones

Earrings tephraarts.etsy.com/listing/4430...
Necklace tephraarts.etsy.com/listing/4430...

#archaeology #archeology #cuneiform #sumerian #akkadian #skystorians

Anyone have any book recommendations on complete texts transcribed from Sumer? And/or complete mythologies for Sumer and/or Akkad? They can be academic sources.

#Sumer #Akkad #Sumerian #Akkadian #BookSuggestions #books #research #archaeology #history

Rare Assyrian inscription found in Jerusalem

Archaeologists have unearthed an extraordinary Assyrian inscription from the First Temple period in Jerusalem—the first of its kind to be discovered in the city...

More info: archaeologymag.com/2025/10/rare...

#archaeology #akkadian #assyrianempire

From counting to cuneiform: How writing was invented The earliest version of cuneiform wasn't used to write language at all—it was used to count! And that Sumerian system of counting still influences our counting systems today. Here's the story of…

Want to learn more about Sumerian and Babylonian mathematics? Check out this issue of the Linguistic Discovery newsletter:

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#cuneiform #writing #numbers #counting #linguistics #language #Sumerian #Akkadian #Babylonian

Looking forward to this one.

#book #booksky #BronzeAge #history #akkadian

Do they have low quality copper, though? #Akkadian #Babylon

📜 The Epic of Gilgamesh in 12 Pictures. 

The Epic of Gilgamesh, is the world's oldest surviving epic (earliest tales c. 2100 BCE). 

🖼️ Images created by Simeon Netchev. 

#EpicOfGilgamesh #Gilgamesh #Mesopotamia #Sumerian #Akkadian #Iraq #History #AncientHistory #Epic

The Scorpion King! Some sketchy lines and some colour...Live free, die well!

#thescorpionking #dwaynejohnson #akkadian #livefreediewell #fanart #comicart #therock #artist

Luje_Aldwald - Twitch 30 He/They - Artist, Gamer, Memelord

So imma start doing a thing where on Mondays at 7pm, imma take like 30 minutes to an hour to study how to read and write Akkadian in Cunieform on stream, so, come learn an ancient and dead language with me!
Www.twitch.tv/luje_aldwald

#stream #language #akkadian #cunieform #study

Démoniaque (Marduk, selfportrait) by Alexandru Crisan https://www.artlimit
#impossibleworlds #nephilim #marduk #sumerian #canaanite #hittites #anxiety #fantasy #magic #lamassu #necronomicon #dmoniaque #anunnaki #akkadian #gods #anthropomorphism #digital #hyperrealism #phoenician…

📜 This infographic illustrates the Epic of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest surviving epic (earliest tales c. 2100 BCE). 

📝 Infographic created by Simeon Netchev. 

#Infographic #EpicOfGilgamesh #Mesopotamia #Sumerian #Akkadian #Iraq #History #AncientHistory #AncientWorld #HistoryBuffs

Table comparing the phonology, unmarked form of noun, "masculine" plural ending, derived stem infinitive pattern, 3m. jussive, and direct object marker in Proto-Aramaic, Eastern Aramaic, and Akkadian (especially Assyrian). In each case, Eastern Aramaic resembles Akkadian more than Proto-Aramaic.

Eastern #Aramaic born from #Akkadian contact?

Like New Copy of
The Babylonians

knoxvillerose.etsy.com/listing/7989...

#vintagebooks #hardcover #booksforsale #anthropology #sumerian #babylonian #akkadian #ancienthistory #history #archaeology #nonfiction #booksky #mesopotamia #pagansky #witchsky #bookseller #smallbusiness

Michael C. Carlos Museum of Ancient Art, Atlanta GA. Image contains a photograph on the left of a barely 3" tall clay cuneiform tablet. On the right is the museum's object label with the following information: Cuniform Tablet of Legal Adoption of an Orphan Baby Girl. Mesopotamia. Babylonian. Old Babylonian Period, 2000-1600 BCE. Clay. FRONT: 1 baby girl, neither having father nor mother, ... said to her/him. Bešatum adopted as his child. ...in order to make a claim, be it his case, be it his brother's, he shall pay 60 shekels of silver. By the name of the king he swore. BACK Before Witness list. Sealed by witnesses. Month 12a (Diri-month) Year the statue...

Ancient artifacts= elite ruling men. But today, I saw a bit of Babylonian clay, with cuneiform writing (Akkadian?). It documented the adoption of an orphaned baby girl. A nearly 4000yo solid reminder of a small, soft, vulnerable body. #cuneiform #mesopotamia #babylonia #artifact #akkadian #girlhood

Hammurabi - Wikipedia

#Hammurabi (/ˌxæmʊˈrɑːbi/; Old Babylonian #Akkadian: 𒄩𒄠𒈬𒊏𒁉, romanized: Ḫâmmurapi;[a] c. 1810 –. 1750 BC),[3][4] was the sixth #Amorite king of the Old #Babylonian Empire, reigning from c. 1792 to c. 1750 BC. He was preceded by his father, Sin-Muballit
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammurabi

Archäologie auf der Festplatte: Ein Foto aus dem Jahr 2019. Dürfte das Gilgamesch-Epos sein, das ich da übersetzt habe ... 🤓

Vielleicht sollte ich darüber mal ein Buch schreiben 🤔

Diese schlecht recherchierten Ancient Alien storys nerven mich eh...

#archaeology #gilgamesh #akkadian #autor #scifi

#Arabic #زق, zq (wineskin, impasse), the consensus for both Fr. and Ger. sac and Eng. sack is through #Latin saccus and #Greek σάκκος (sakkos) along with a Semitic ancestry going all the way back to #Akkadian 𒆭𒊓 (saqqu), sack or penitent sackcloth. We are more interconnected than we think.
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Monday Miscellany 28 April 2025

Monday Miscellany!

This week:
- #discipline
- #Esther
- #Bible readings
- #Book reviews: white Evangelical young men, deciphering #akkadian

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