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Sumer
Sumer and Sumerian civilization . The term Sumer is used today to designate the southern part of ancient Mesopotamia . From the earliest date of which there is any record, S Mesopotamia was occupied by a people, known as Sumerians, speaking a non-Semitic language. The questions concerning the... Read more
Anu
Anu , ancient sky god of Sumerian origin, worshiped in Babylonian religion. The son of Apsu (the underworld ocean) and Tiamat (primeval chaos), Anu was king of the great triad of gods, which included the earth god Enlil and the water god Ea. ... Read more
Marduk
Marduk , ancient god of Babylonia and chief god of the city of Babylon. His cult rose to prominence in the reign of Hammurabi, and Marduk became the omniscient king of the pantheon—the creator of mankind and the god of light and life. In his various aspects he was the successor of the Sumerian... Read more
Shamash
Shamash , sun god of Semitic origin, worshiped in Babylonia and Assyria. He was one of the great deities of ancient Middle Eastern religions, god of law, order, and justice. The chief center of his cult was Sippar. In Sumerian civilization he was called Utu. ... Read more
Enlil
Enlil , ancient earth god of Sumerian origin, worshiped in Babylonian religion. With the sky god Anu and the water god Ea, he formed the great divine triad. Enlil, also referred to as Bel, could be hostile or beneficent. He was responsible for the order and harmony in the universe, but as a god of s... Read more
Sargon
Sargon , king of Akkad in Mesopotamia (reigned c.2340-c.2305 BC). By conquest he established a great empire that included the whole of Mesopotamia and extended over Syria and Elam, and he controlled territories W to the Mediterranean and N to the Black Sea. Documents now support the theory that Sarg... Read more
Tammuz
Tammuz , ancient nature deity worshiped in Babylonia. A god of agriculture and flocks, he personified the creative powers of spring. He was loved by the fertility goddess Ishtar , who, according to one legend, was so grief-stricken at his death that she contrived to enter the underworld to get him ... Read more
Uruk
Uruk or Erech , ancient Sumerian city of Mesopotamia , on the Euphrates and NW of Ur (in present-day S Iraq). It is the modern Tall al Warka. Uruk, dating from the 5th millennium BC, was the largest city in S Mesopotamia and an important religious center. The sanctuaries of the goddess Inanna (... Read more
Hammurabi
Hammurabi , fl. 1792-1750 BC, king of Babylonia . He founded an empire that was eventually destroyed by raids from Asia Minor. Hammurabi may have begun building the tower of Babel (Gen. 11.4), which can now be identified with the temple-tower in Babylon called Etemenanki. His code of laws is one of... Read more
Ishtar
Ishtar , ancient fertility deity, the most widely worshiped goddess in Babylonian and Assyrian religion. She was worshiped under various names and forms. Most important as a mother goddess and as a goddess of love, Ishtar was the source of all the generative powers in nature and mankind. However, sh... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "sumerian"

Sumerian and Babylonian art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Sumerian Art The art of the Sumerian civilization, as revealed...materials of art, the Sumerians traded crops from their...textured pottery. Sumerian craftsmanship was of...architectural achievement of the Sumerians. One ziggurat at Erech...high. Among other Sumerian arts, one of the ...
Sumer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...civilization existed. Sumerian civilization was...communal life. The Sumerians were adept at building...from that of the Sumerians (see Semite...in contact with Sumerian culture, and the...N. Kramer, The Sumerians: Their History...Character (1971), Sumerian Mythology (1973...
Middle Eastern religions
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Mesopotamia (i.e., the Sumerians, the Babylonians, and the...was in Mesopotamia that the Sumerians implanted reverence for the...blend of religious thought, Sumerian and Semitic, in which everything...have come down to us in Sumerian and Babylonian mythology...
Mesopotamia, Ancient
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture ...of civilization. To quote an ancient Sumerian poem ("The Debate between the Ewe and...bilingual from its earliest days). Sumerian is an isolated language, but Akkadian...soups, and beer. Bread. Bread (Sumerian, ninda; Akkadian, akalu) must have...
Iraq
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...b.c.e. the land belonged to the Sumerians, who built advanced irrigation systems...that all land belonged to the pharaoh, Sumerians believed in private property, still an important notion in Iraq today. When the Sumerian civilization collapsed in about 1700...
Sitchin, Zecharia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...learned a variety of Near Eastern languages including Hebrew and Sumerian. He moved to England for college and attended both the London...sapiens. A war in the heavens, as described in the ancient Sumerian chronicles and the Bible, Sitchin believes, accounts for...
Gilgamesh
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...in expression and content than the Epic of Gilgamesh. Its Sumerian hero was famous throughout the Near East from about 2000 B...worth any king's attention, as relevant today as to the Sumerians of ancient Iraq. It tells of a man who finds a friend, loses...
Gods and Goddesses of Life and Death
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...himself. The divine vigor of these deities is barely contained: Sumerian Ninurta existed as power without form until his mother Ninhursaga...power of iron. Craft-skills are bestowed by Greek Athene and Sumerian Ninurta, healing and medical skills by lion-headed Sekhmet...
State, The
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...archaic state. The first archaic states were created by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia about 3500 bce, but within a few hundred years...sometimes had tens of thousands of inhabitants. The ancient Sumerian city-states were typically warlike and in some cases expansionary...
Storytelling
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...examples are: Beowulf , an Anglo-Saxon tale of courage in the face of brute strength; Gilgamesh , a Sumerian epic tale of the Sumerian king, Gilgamesh, and his friendship with Enkidu, the half-beast, half-man being created to destroy...

Dictionary entries related to "sumerian"

Sumerians
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Sumerians A people living in southern...URUK , Eridu, and UR . The Sumerians are credited with inventing...not only re-established Sumerian sovereignty in Sumer but...devastation of Ur. The Sumerians at this point disappear...
Sumerian architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Sumerian architecture. The Sumerians of Mesopotamia were creating sophisticated...Testament), the greatest of the Sumerian cities, had two groups of temples...platform. The basic principles of Sumerian architecture were absorbed by their...
Sumerian
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...relating to Sumer, its ancient language, or the early, non-Semitic element it contributed to Babylonian civilization. • n. 1. a member of the indigenous non-Semitic people of ancient Babylonia. 2. the Sumerian language.
Sumer
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...was a principal city. The Sumerians' myths of creation and human...those of Gen. 1 to 11. The Sumerians developed a system of law...cuneiform writing, and many Sumerian tablets have survived, although...in about 1750 BCE brought Sumerian predominance to an end.
Underworld
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...Egypt. Myth.: Leach, 42] Anunnaki lesser Sumerian underworld deities. [Sumerian Myth.: Ben é t, 41] Aornum entrance...queen of underworld; Persephone equivalent. [Sumerian Myth.: Ben é t, 319 – 320...
Ur
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Ur A city of the SUMERIANS . It was occupied from the 5th millennium...it was one of a number of sizeable Sumerian cities. It was subject to the rule...emerged c. 2150 as the capital of a new Sumerian empire, under the third dynasty established...
writing
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...earliest forms of writing used simple pictorial signs to represent objects. The SUMERIANS had developed a pictographical system of writing by about 3400 BC. The Sumerians and Egyptians also used symbols to represent spoken sounds, such as syllables...
Communication of Ideas: Middle East and Abroad
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...involved the mixing of languages and writing systems. The Sumerians had a word-value writing system, while that of the Akkadians...system had been passed on after 2000 b.c.e. from the Sumerians to the Babylonians and Assyrians, "together with their cuneiform...
Escape
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...labyrinth with aid from Ariadne. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 31] Tyler, Toby runs away from cruel Uncle Daniel to join circus. [Children ’ s Lit.: Toby Tyler ] Ziusudra Sumerian Noah. [Sumerian Legend: Ben é t, 1116]
cane
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology cane XIV. ME. can(n)e — OF. cane , (also mod.) canne :- L. canna reed, etc. — Gr. kánna , kánnē — Assyrian ḳanū (Heb. ḳaneh ) — Sumerian gin . Hence cane vb. XVII.

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[-ATR] HARMONY AND THE VOWEL INVENTORY OF SUMERIAN
Magazine article from: Journal of Cuneiform Studies; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; It has long been accepted that Sumerian exhibited some form of vowel harmony, and early descriptions of Sumerian vowel harmony (Poebel 1931; Kramer...Instead, modern descriptions of the Sumerian vowel inventory are restricted to the...
University of Pennsylvania's University Museum receives the first volume of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary.
PR Newswire; 11/30/1984; 700+ words ; ...volume of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary has at last arrived...the first dictionary of the Sumerian language, which is the earliest...that have passed since the Sumerians first created cuneiform writing...end of the 19th century, Sumerian scholars at the University...
Epics of Sumerian Kings: The Matter of Aratta
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; HERMAN VANSTIPHOUT, Epics of Sumerian Kings: The Matter of Aratta (SBL Writings from...Pp. xii + 176. Paper $24.95. Epics of Sumerian Kings is a new translation of four Sumerian epic poems, with an eclectic, composite Sumerian...
Sumerian Gods and their Representations.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; Sumerian Gods and their Representations. Edited...in both the Akkadian-language and the Sumerian-language traditions, with similar or...earlier phases, which are, typically, "Sumerian." In this volume are collected thirteen...
Sumerian Practices from 2050 B.C. Make U.S. Tax Code Seem Less Grueling.
Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News); 4/11/2002; 700+ words ; ...fairness to the king, the Sumerians did presumably benefit...maintained lavish temples to Sumerian gods. Today, we are...Humanities, to create a Sumerian dictionary. She was able to study the Sumerian tax system in depth...Egyptians and Greeks, Sumerians kept voluminous statistical...
Sumerian Grammar.(Sumerian Grammar: Handbook of Oriental Studies, vol. I/71)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; Sumerian Grammar. By DIETZ OTTO EDZARD. Handbook...presents the latest comprehensive grammar of Sumerian. It is befitting that this revered Sumerologist...and contributed so much to research on Sumerian, should have published his Sumerian grammar...
Sumerian lexicon; a dictionary guide to the ancient Sumerian language.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2007; 498 words ; 9780978642907 Sumerian lexicon; a dictionary guide to the ancient Sumerian language. Ed. by John Alan Halloran. Logogram Publishing 2006 318 pages $79.00 Paperback PJ4013 Sumerian is a dead language found on clay tablets from the...
Scholars work to build Sumerian dictionary: Extensive written record left no descendants, making understanding it a difficult job
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 8/4/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...eagerly awaiting the first Sumerian dictionary, a 30...version by 2004. The Sumerians settled and farmed the...continued to advance Sumerian literature, astronomy...lucky byproduct of the Sumerians' choice of materials...civilization, said Rubio, Sumerian is the only one that...
Scholars working on 1st Sumerian dictionary.
Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service); 7/22/2002; 700+ words ; ...PHILADELPHIA _ The people known as Sumerians are credited with starting...eagerly awaiting the first Sumerian dictionary, a 30-year project...early version by 2004. The Sumerians settled and farmed the area...which continued to advance Sumerian literature, astronomy and...
Scholars working on 1st Sumerian dictionary.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 7/29/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...PHILADELPHIA _ The people known as Sumerians are credited with starting...eagerly awaiting the first Sumerian dictionary, a 30-year project...early version by 2004. The Sumerians settled and farmed the area...which continued to advance Sumerian literature, astronomy and...