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The Agušaya Hymn or Song of Agušaya is an Old Babylonian literary work, a “song of praise”, written in the Akkadian language concerning the goddess Ištar, identified with the serpent deity Irnina. [1] It may have been called “the Snake has Turned” in antiquity, as it has ú-ta-ar MUŠ inscribed at the top edge at the beginning.
The Akkadian Empire (/ ə ˈ k eɪ d i ən /) [2] was the first known ancient empire of Mesopotamia, succeeding the long-lived civilization of Sumer.Centered on the city of Akkad (/ ˈ æ k æ d /) [3] and its surrounding region, the empire united Akkadian and Sumerian speakers under one rule and exercised significant influence across Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Anatolia, sending military ...
The Akkadian word for music, nigūtu, also meant ‘joy’ and ‘merriment’, well illustrated by a seal in the Louvre showing a peaceful scene of a shepherd playing a flute to his flock. [14] Music was a normal part of social life in Mesopotamia [ 14 ] and was used in many secular contexts. [ 15 ]
The meaning of the Akkadian word tigidlû used to be unknown, but it was revealed by a word list from Emar that there was a three-stringed tigidlû instrument, which suggests a lute, and the reference to a "traveling tigidlû" in this list fits well with a lute.
The king of Akkad (Akkadian: šar māt Akkadi, lit. ' king of the land of Akkad ' [1]) was the ruler of the city of Akkad and its empire, in ancient Mesopotamia.In the 3rd millennium BC, from the reign of Sargon of Akkad to the reign of his great-grandson Shar-Kali-Sharri, the Akkadian Empire represented the dominant power in Mesopotamia and the first known great empire.
The initial readings of the tablet’s Akkadian cuneiform include details of a major furniture purchase. ... The area—which contains ruins that date to as far back as 4,000 years ago—was first ...
Awīl-um man. NOM šū 3SG. MASC šarrāq thief. ABSOLUTUS Awīl-um šū šarrāq man.NOM 3SG.MASC thief. ABSOLUTUS This man is a thief (2) šarrum king. NOM. RECTUS lā NEG šanān oppose. INF. ABSOLUTUS šarrum lā šanān king.NOM. RECTUS NEG oppose.INF. ABSOLUTUS The king who cannot be rivaled The status constructus is more common by far, and has a much wider range of applications. It is ...
Ugarit, where the Hurrian songs were found. The complete song is one of about 36 such hymns in cuneiform writing, found on fragments of clay tablets excavated in the 1950s from the Royal Palace at Ugarit (present-day Ras Shamra, Syria), [5] in a stratum dating from the fourteenth century BC, [6] but is the only one surviving in substantially complete form.