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Sumerian and Akkadian
Dictionaries
CAD = The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (Chicago 1956 ff.).
AHw = Wolfram von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch (Wiesbaden 1965 – 1981).
PSD = The Sumerian Dictionary of the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia 1984ff.).
ŠL = Anton Deimel, Šumerisches Lexikon. I-IV (Roma: Scripta pontificii instituti biblici, 1928-1933).
Sumerian Grammars and Textbooks
M-L. Thomsen, The Sumerian language : an introduction to its history and grammatical structure (3rd edn., Mesopotamia; Copenhagen: 2001)
Dietz Otto Edzard, Sumerian grammar (Leiden: 2003).
Christopher Woods, The grammar of perspective : the Sumerian conjugation prefixes as a system of voice (Leiden ; Boston: 2008).
John L. Hayes, A manual of Sumerian grammar and texts (2nd, rev. and expanded edition. edn., Aids and research tools in ancient Near Eastern studies; Malibu, Calif.: 2000).
Konrad Volk, A Sumerian reader (2nd rev. edn., Studia Pohl. Series maior; Roma: 1999).
Foxvog, D.A., Introduction to Sumerian Grammar (including Glossary)
Attinger, Pascal (1993), Éléments de linguistique sumérienne : la construction de du11/e/di "dire" (Orbis biblicus et orientalis; Fribourg, Suisse Göttingen: Éditions Universitaires ; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht).
Lexicographical Tools
MSL = Materialien zum sumerischen Lexicon (Roma: Scripta pontificii instituti biblici, 1937ff.). From 1970: Materials for the Sumerian Lexicon (Roma: Scripta pontificii instituti biblici, 1970ff.).
MSL 1: B. Landsberger, Ana ittišu (1937).
MSL 2: B. Landsberger, Ur-e-a = naqû (1951).
MSL 3: B. Landsberger, R. T. Hallock, et al., Das Sylllabar A; Das Vocaular Sa; Das Vocabular Sb (1955).
MSL 4: B. Landsberger; R. T. Hallock; Th. Jacobsen, A. Falkenstein, Emesal-Vocabulary; Old Babylonian Grammatical Texts; Neobabylonian Grammatical Texts (1956).
MSL 5: B. Landsberger, ḪAR-ra = ḫubullu. Tablets I-IV (1957).
MSL 6: B. Landsberger, ḪAR-ra = ḫubullu. Tablets V-VII (1958).
MSL 7: B. Landsberger, ḪAR-ra = ḫubullu. Tablets VIII-XII (1959).
MSL 8/1: B. Landsberger et al., The Fauna of Ancient Mesopotamia. 1st part. ḪAR-ra = ḫubullu. Tablet XIII (1960).
MSL 8/2: B. Landsberger, The Fauna of Ancient Mesopotamia. 2nd part. ḪAR-ra = ḫubullu. Tablet XIV and XVIII (1962).
MSL 9: B. Landsberger and M. Civil, ḪAR-ra = ḫubullu. Tablet XV. Ugu-mu. List of Diseases (1967).
MSL 10: B. Landsberger, Erical Reiner, and M. Civil, ḪAR-ra = ḫubullu. Tablets XVI, XVII, XIX (1970).
MSL 11: Erical Reiner and M. Civil, ḪAR-ra = ḫubullu. Tablets XX - XXIV. Miscellaneous Geographical Lists (1974).
MSL 12: M. Civil et al., lu2 = ša and Related Texts (1969).
MSL 13: M. Civil et al., Izi = išātu, Ká-gal = abullu, and Níg-ga = makkūru (1971).
MSL 14: M. Civil et al., Ea A - nâqu, Aa A = nâqu (1979).
MSL 15: M. Civil, The Series Diri = (w)atru (2004).
MSL 16: I. Finkel and M. Civil, SIG7.ALAN = Nabnītu (1982).
MSL 17. A. Cavigneauz et al., Erim-huš = anantu and an-ta-gál = šaqû (1985).
MSL SS (= Suplementary Series) 1: M. Civil et al., The Sag-Tablet; Lexical Texts in the Ashmolean Museum; etc (1986).
W. Sallaberger and M. Civil, Der babylonische Töpfer und seine Gefässe - ḪAR-ra = ḫubullu: Tablet X dug = karpatu (1996).
Bibliographical Tools
HKL = R. Borger, Handbuch der Keilschriftslitteratur:
Band I, 1967: Repertorium der sumerischen und akkadischen Texte.
Band II, 1975: Supplement zu Band I.
Band III, 1975: Inhaltliche Ordnung … Sekundärliteratur in Auswahl.