Typology of Lexical Lists

Among the thousand of lexical tablets from ancient Mesopotamia are both the poorly written exercises of beginning pupils, as well as the beautifully executed scholarly handbooks deposited in the royal collections of king Assurbanipal. In contents, the lexical corpus may be divided into word lists and signs lists.

Exercise Texts

Library Texts

Word Lists

Sign Lists

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Further reading

Niek Veldhuis

Niek Veldhuis, 'Typology of Lexical Lists', Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts, The DCCLT Project, 2019 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/dcclt/lexicalliststypology/]

 
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