• The Chicago Hittite Dictionary (CHD) (The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago) is a project at the University of...
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    Language Monograph No. 9. The Chicago Hittite Dictionary Hoffner, Harry A.; Melchert, H. Craig (2008). A Grammar of the Hittite Language. Winona: Eisenbrauns...
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  • States dictionary projects for ancient Middle Eastern languages, including the Chicago Hittite Dictionary, the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary, and the...
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    ISBN 978-1-5267-5352-6. Oppenheim, A. Leo (1977). Ancient Mesopotamia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-63187-7. Tillison, Malachi (1993). Sumer and...
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     1595–1155 BC) Late Bronze Age collapse (12th to 11th century BC) Iron Age Syro-Hittite states (11th to 7th century BC) Neo-Assyrian Empire (10th to 7th century...
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    neighbouring languages such as Biblical Hebrew, Hittite, Elamite, Hurrian, Indo-Anatolian (also called Indo-Hittite), Imperial Aramaic, Eastern Aramaic dialects...
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    region in which the Luwians lived. Luwiya is attested, for example, in the Hittite laws. The two varieties of Proto-Luwian or Luwian (in the narrow sense...
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    Anatolia-based Hittites in 1595 BC. Shamshu-Ditana was overthrown following the "sack of Babylon" by the Hittite king Mursili I. The Hittites did not remain...
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    filled the river with flowing water. In Hittite and Hurrian mythology, Aranzah (or Aranzahas in the Hittite nominative form) is the Hurrian name of the...
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    Ziggurat (Temple) Academia Assyriology Assyriologists Hittitology Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Chicago Hittite Dictionary...
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  • 2011). In addition to this he is the editor of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary of the University of Chicago. He has also appeared in several documentaries...
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    Ziggurat (Temple) Academia Assyriology Assyriologists Hittitology Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Chicago Hittite Dictionary...
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    Mitanni, Assyria and the Hittite Empire in the north, with the Middle Assyrian Empire (1365–1020 BC) eventually eclipsing the Hittites, Mitanni and Kassite...
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    Ziggurat (Temple) Academia Assyriology Assyriologists Hittitology Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Chicago Hittite Dictionary...
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  • of work by Puhvel. Since volume 5 (2001), it complements the Chicago Hittite Dictionary, which began in 1980. Puhvel has retired from UCLA as Professor...
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    facilitated by two separate invasions of Mesopotamia by the Hittites. An invasion by the Hittite king Mursili I in c. 1595 BC destroyed the dominant Old Babylonian...
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  • Persepolis Fortification Archive at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago unearthed Old Persian tablets, which suggest Old Persian was a written...
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    palaces pointing to an intense trade relationship with North Syrian Neo-Hittite states at the time. Bronze repousse bands decorated the wooden gates of...
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    Cities". ThoughtCo. Kirkpatrick, E. M., ed. (1983). Chambers 20th Century Dictionary (New ed.). Edinburgh: W & R Chambers. p. 1330. ISBN 0-550-10234-5. Kotsakis...
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  • "Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite", Assyriological Studies 21, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980 George, Andrew; Krebernik, Manfred (2022). "Two...
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  • Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2018. "Hittites, Assyrians and Aramaeans". fsmitha.com. Retrieved 10 October 2018. Frye...
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    Sumer (category Articles containing Hittite-language text)
    the term šumerû is uncertain. Hebrew שִׁנְעָר Šinʿar, Egyptian Sngr, and Hittite Šanhar(a), all referring to southern Mesopotamia, could be western variants...
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  • (1977). Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization. University Of Chicago Press. pp. 16–17. ISBN 9780226631868. Jack M. Sasson (2005). "Comparative...
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    ISBN 978-1-59856-378-8. FREEDMAN, ed; Freedman, David Noel (2000). Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 230. ISBN 978-0-8028-2400-4...
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    state. The Amorite dynasty ended in 1595 BC, when Babylonia fell to the Hittite king Mursilis, after which the Kassites took control. Hammurabi (standing)...
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    Ziggurat (Temple) Academia Assyriology Assyriologists Hittitology Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Chicago Assyrian Dictionary Chicago Hittite Dictionary...
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  • Nicholas (2004). Corpus Fontium Manichaerum: Dictionary of Manichaean Texts, Vol. III, Part 1: Dictionary of Manichaen Middle Persian and Parthian. Turnhout...
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    multiple languages including Sumerian, Eblaite, Hurrian, Elamite, and Hittite. Akkadian is named after the city of Akkad, a major centre of Mesopotamian...
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    1995, p. 57-58. Bruce Howe, Barda Balka, Chicago, Illinois, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2014, 32 p. ISBN 978-1-61491-000-8, read...
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    (1963). The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226452388. Piotr Michalowski (1996). "Ancient Poetics"...
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