LINGUIST List 13.1444

Wed May 22 2002

Media: Sumerian Dictionary Project/Article

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

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1. Karen S. Chung, Sumerian dictionary project: Article and Project

USA Today 21 May 2002
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/2002/05/21/cuneiform.htm


SUMERIAN DICTIONARY PROJECT
The five-thousand-year-old cuneiform writing system used starting around
3200 B.C. by Babylon, Chaldea, and other civilizations of Mesopotamia, is
going online in dictionary, photographic and 3D forms, and a team led by
Sumerian-language expert Steve Tinney of the University of Pennsylvania
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is translating cuneiform into
English online (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~melindag/psdmain.html). The work
is being partly supported by grants from the National Endowment for the
Humanities. 


 Karen Steffen Chung
 National Taiwan University
 karchungccms.ntu.edu.tw

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