Altbabylonische Zeichenliste Der Sumerisch-literarischen Texte (orbis Biblicus Et Orientalis)

English summary: Prof. Dr. Pascal Attinger has taught Ancient Near Eastern languages at the University of Bern for twenty years. He owes his international reputation to his works on Sumerian grammar and Sumerian literature of the Old Babylonian period. The present volume brings together twenty contributions by his friends, colleagues and doctoral students, mainly concentrating on the 500 years spanning the turn from the third to the second millennium BCE. Some studies deal with philological and linguistic aspects of Sumerian and Semitic Akkadian, including its dialects, while others focus on issues of history and culture. Several contributions present new editions of Sumerian (literary) texts, some of them hitherto unpublished. German description: Prof. Dr. Pascal Attinger lehrt seit 20 Jahren an der Universitat Bern die Sprachen des Alten Orients. Internationale Reputation verdankt er seinen Arbeiten zur sumerischen Grammatik und zur sumerischen Literatur der altbabylonischen Zeit. Der vorliegende Band vereinigt zwanzig Beitrage von Freunden, Kollegen und Doktoranden des Geehrten, die sich mehrheitlich mit den rund 500 Jahren um die Wende vom 3. zum 2. Jahrtausend v.Chr. befassen. Inhaltlich decken sie mehrere Themenbereiche ab: Es liegen sprachliche und linguistische Arbeiten zum Sumerischen und semitischen Akkadisch mit seinen verschiedenen Dialekten vor; andere Studien fokussieren auf kulturwissenschaftliche oder historische Fragestellungen. Mehrere Beitrage bieten (Neu-)Bearbeitungen von zum Teil noch unpublizierten sumerischen Texten oder Literaturwerken. "... Presents a collection of 480 cuneiform signs used in the Sumerian literary texts of the Old Babylonian period. The inventory of sign forms exclusively refers to texts from Nippur and Ur as well as to the relevant tablets kept in the collections of the University Museum (Philadelphia), the British Museum (London) and the Hilprecht-Sammlung (Jena). Most of the signs listed have been collated. The sign list is classified according to Old Babylonia main forms. Each entry consists of a main form and up to 16 variants supposed to cover the spectrum of a sign as far as possible. All forms are listed with their quotations differentiated according to the origins of the tablet. In addition to the sign forms the list also provides the corresponding values and Diri. Some of the values are explained in detail in a commentary at the end of the sign list." --Colophon