ePSD2 articles contain the following elements:
- Summary
- The Summary appears at the top of the article and is also used for the results of glossary searches.
- Bases
- Bases are given both in cuneiform and as a distributional table--click on the numbers to see the occurrences of a specific base. You may need to download a cuneiform font in order to see the cuneiform in the bases section. [/doc/help/visitingoracc/fonts/index.html]
- Forms
- Unlike other Oracc glossaries, the word forms are
not included inline in the dictionary articles but are available as a
separate table, reached via a link immediately after the bases. The
forms table can be sorted on the various fields and provides links to
the occurrences of the forms.
- Periods
- ePSD2 uses periodizations which are aligned partly
with preserved phases of Sumerian and partly with the historical
sequences of Mesopotamia. The following table is indicative of the
date ranges of documents assigned to the periods for the purposes of
ePSD2, and is not intended as an attempt to define the chronology of
the periods.
| Abbreviation | Period | Date range for corpus division |
| PC | Proto-Cuneiform | pre-3000 BCE |
| ED I-II | Early Dynastic I-II | 3000-2800 BCE |
| ED IIIa | Early Dynastic IIIa | 2800-2600 BCE |
| ED IIIb | Early Dynastic IIIb | 2600-2300 BCE |
| OAkk | Old Akkadian | 2300-2200 BCE |
| Lag II | Lagash II | 2200-2100 BCE |
| Ur III | Ur III | 2100-2000 BCE |
| OB | Old Babylonian | 2000-1600 BCE |
| Post-OB | Post Old Babylonian | 1600 BCE to 1st Century CE |
- Verbal Prefixes
- For verbs, the attested prefix chains are
presented in this section; the form of the prefix strings is that of
the ePSD2 morphology abbreviations rather than the written forms.
- Senses
- The various senses of the words.
- Pronunciation Data
- Continuations, pronuncation glosses in bases, and information from lexical sign lists are gathered together in this section.
- Lexical Data
- The lexical entries in which the word occurs are collected here.
- Equivalents
- Equivalents in other languages, primarily Akkadian.
- Bibliography
- Selected bibliography is given here.
- Metadata
- The tailsheet of the articles contains the
permanent ID for the word, a suggested citation URL, and the
version/build-date for the article.