Word: akkadian
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Krister Shendahl, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies, explained that the former title too heavily emphasized the philosophical aspect, and did not do justice to those scholars concentrating in Akkadian, Sumerian, and Religion and Society...
...spoor of Esoterica hangs over the afternoon courses. Math. 224, for example, dallies over "Topics in the Theory of Compact Riemann Surfaces"; while Portuguese 200 elucidates Portuguese linguistics, and includes a survey of Portuguese literature up to 1500. At hours to be arranged Akkadian 230 will dwell on elementary Akkadian. Indian Studies 122a will exhume elementary classical Tibetan...
Last week Cyrus Gordon, professor of Near Eastern languages at Brandeis University, offered a solution to the mystery. Linear A, says he, does indeed use Minoan signs, but these parallel Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) syllables. Just as Ventris' discovery revealed that the Achaeans of the Greek mainland were not the illiterates that a reading of Homer suggests, but might well have been the civilized conquerors of Crete, so Gordon's thesis sheds a whole new light on the possible foundations of Greek civilization itself...
...Linear A tablets he came across the entry gaba, followed by the sign for MAN and the numerals 62. This was a striking equivalent to the Linear B formula to-so MAN 17, meaning so many men: 17. But gaba was also similar to the Akkadian word gabba, meaning all. "From that moment on," says Gordon, "I approached Linear A with Akkadian in mind...
...word Y-to-X-lo or -ro, Gordon reasoned, might mean "cumulative total," and the Akkadian word for that was kitmuru. Since the Akkadians did not distinguish between the o and u sounds, to could be tu, and lo or ro could be hi or ru. Then Y becomes ki, and X, mil, to make kitumuru...