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Two Remarkable Vocabularies: Amorite-Akkadian Bilinguals!

Andrew R. George, Manfred Krebernik, 2022.

MYS0DEDQYH572XF · mystery · click to copyMHattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archivesArticledoi: 10.3917/assy.116.01130

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Revue d'assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale 116, pp. 113-166. Edition of two Old Babylonian tablets with Amorite phrases in the left column and Akkadian translations in the right: the first connected Amorite ever read. Provenance undocumented. Used as the recent case where a bilingual turned a names-only language into a readable one.

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Andrew R. George, & Manfred Krebernik (2022). Two Remarkable Vocabularies: Amorite-Akkadian Bilinguals!. https://doi.org/10.3917/assy.116.0113
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