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Cover illustration: Late Babylonian tablet, apprenticeship contract, written in Babylon in the year Nabonidus 16, i.e., 540 BCE. Copyright: Altorientalisches Institut der Universität Leipzig.
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Names: Vita, Juan-Pablo, editor.
Title: History of the Akkadian Language / edited by Juan-Pablo Vita.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021. | Series: Handbook of Orientalstudies. Section one, The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; 152/1 |Includes bibliographical references and indexes. | Contents: v. 1.Linguistic background and early periods – v. 2. The second and firstmillennia BCE as well as its afterlife.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020052247 (print) | LCCN 2020052248 (ebook) | ISBN9789004445673 (v. 1 ; hardback) | ISBN 9789004445680 (v. 2 ; hardback) |ISBN 9789004445208 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004445215 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Akkadian language–Grammar, Historical. | Akkadianlanguage–History.
Classification: LCC PJ3241 .H57 2021 (print) | LCC PJ3241 (ebook) | DDC492/.109–dc23
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