Introduction This post presents my translation of a royal inscription of Gudea inscribed on a clay cone wherein he documents the achievement of his construction... Read More
Matthew Saunders
Matthew Saunders is a PhD student in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He researches the languages and literatures of the ancient Near East, especially Aramaic Studies, Ugaritic Studies, and Comparative Semitics.
Introduction This post presents my translation of a royal brick inscription of Ur-Nammu wherein he documents the achievement of his construction of the temple of... Read More
Learn to Read Ancient Aramaic: E. Cook (2022), Chapter One, “Introduction: Aramaic and Its Dialects”
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Learn to Read Ancient Aramaic: E. Cook (2022), Chapter One, “Introduction: Aramaic and Its Dialects”
Introduction This post is the first in a series that provides a resource to learn or review the contents of Edward M. Cook’s Biblical Aramaic... Read More
Description The Bir-Hadad Stele (also known as the Melqart Stele; AB B.1.1 = KAI 201) is a late 9th or early 8th cent. BCE basalt... Read More
Introduction This post is the first in a series that provides a resource to review the contents of Richard Caplice’s Introduction to Akkadian (4th ed.; 2002).... Read More
What is the Digital Semitics Online Library?
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Welcome to the Digital Semitics Online Library (DSOL)! Originally called the Semitic Studies Online Library (SSOL), this site was founded in November 2023 and is... Read More