A Sumero-Babylonian Sign List : To Which Is Added an Assyrian Sign List and a Catalogue of the Numerals, Weights and Measures Used at Various Periods / Samuel A. B. Mercer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mercer, Samuel A. B., 1880-1969, author.

Series:

Columbia University oriental studies.

Columbia University Oriental Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cuneiform writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Press, [1966]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A guide covering Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian signs, numbers, weights, and measures. In addition it includes an arranged collection of Cuneiform signs. Offers translation and Assyrian equivalents of the symbols.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Select Bibliography

A Guide to the Order of Signs

Notes

Sumero-Babylonian Signs-Archaic

Sumero-Babylonian Signs-From Ur-Nina to Neo-Babylonian Period

Sumero-Babylonian Numerals, Weights and Measures

Assyrian Signs

Assyrian Numerals, Weights and Measures

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231877312

0231877315

OCLC:

1100429779