Sunday, April 4, 2021

AEMW: Akkadian in the Eastern Mediterranean World

AEMW: Akkadian in the Eastern Mediterranean World

AEMW is an on-going project directed by Jacob Lauinger (Johns Hopkins University) and Matthew Rutz (Brown University) that aims to bring together lemmatized, searchable editions and translations of archival texts written in Akkadian cuneiform from a wide variety of Eastern Mediterranean sites.

aemw/idrimi: Statue of Idrimi

The statue of Idrimi in the British Museum (detail)

An up-to-date, searchable edition of the Idrimi inscription together with numerous annotations and bibliography. By Jacob Lauinger at Johns Hopkins University.

aemw/amarna: The Amarna Letters

Shrine-stela of Amenhotep III and queen Tiye (detail), Amarna c.1340 BC. (British Museum EA 57399)

The project presents up-to-date, searchable editions of the “Amarna letters,” the diplomatic correspondence in Akkadian cuneiform dating to the mid-14th century BC and found at Tell el-Amarna (ancient Akhetaten) in Egypt. By Jacob Lauinger (Johns Hopkins University) and Tyler Yoder (Culver Academies) and supported by a Catalyst Award from Johns Hopkins University

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