Science: Archaeology: Topics: Epigraphy: Sumerian

John Halloran's lexicon of Sumerian, paper analyzing Proto-Sumerian, illustrated description of symbolic counting tokens, proverbs in Sumerian cuneiform and a map of Sumerian archaeological sites.

In preparation at the University of Oxford aims to make accessible over 400 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennia BC.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Penn archaeologists have puzzled over the cuneiform writings for decades. At last a Sumerian dictionary may be ready by 2004.

Qz in the epithet of Harhab not 'summer' as previously thought.

Provides a full Truetype font to write the classical URIII monumental Sumerian cuneiforms.

Article from Acta Sumerologica 22. Introduction to the papers presented at the 6th meeting of the Sumerian Grammar Discussion Group, Oxford, 17th and 18th September 1999. (PDF)