An Amarna letter (EA 162) from a pharaoh to Aziru of Amurru in light of recent research
By the middle of the second millennium B.C. Akkadian had spread from the homeland Babylonia-Assyria to neighbouring countries in the Near East and Egypt. An offshoot of Akkadian - indicated by scholars as Peripheral Akkadian - became the lingua franca and the vehicle for international diplomacy. It...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1995
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Journal for semitics
Year: 1995, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 162-195 |
| Further subjects: | B
Akkadian
B Near East and Egypt B International diplomacy B Babylonia-Assyria B Peripheral Akkadian |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | By the middle of the second millennium B.C. Akkadian had spread from the homeland Babylonia-Assyria to neighbouring countries in the Near East and Egypt. An offshoot of Akkadian - indicated by scholars as Peripheral Akkadian - became the lingua franca and the vehicle for international diplomacy. It consisted of numerous dialects and subdialects. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/AJA10318471_397 |
