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John Halloran's lexicon of Sumerian, paper analyzing Proto-Sumerian, illustrated description of symbolic counting tokens, proverbs in Sumerian cuneiform and a map of Sumerian archaeological sites.
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Sumerian Language Page  Sumerian Language Page Sumerian Lexicon The Proto-Sumerian Language Invention Process Symbolic Counting Tokens from the Early Near East Map of Sumerian Neolithic and Chalcolithic Archaeological Sites Sumerian Questions and Answers Links to Mesopotamian or Language Web Sites Proverbs in Sumerian...
http://www.sumerian.org/

In preparation at the University of Oxford aims to make accessible over 400 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennia BC.
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ETCSLhomepage  So far it has made accessible, via the World Wide Web, more than 350 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) during the late third and early second millennia BCE. The corpus comprises Sumerian texts...
http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Penn archaeologists have puzzled over the cuneiform writings for decades. At last a Sumerian dictionary may be ready by 2004.
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http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/m.../ledgerenquirer/news/3710920.htm

Includes: an index to Sumerian secondary literature, a mailing list, and news.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psd/

Qz in the epithet of Harhab not 'summer' as previously thought.
http://www.ieiop.csic.es/pub/2_n...nding_qz_in_ktu_124_b70f417d.pdf

Provides a full Truetype font to write the classical URIII monumental Sumerian cuneiforms.
http://gmalingue.free.fr/UrIII/UrIII

Presents technical and general articles on the history and languages of the ancient Mesopotamian and Anatolian literate cultures. English, French, and German. Index.
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Journal of Cuneiform Studies  Anatolian literate cultures. Articles appear in English, French, and German. Published once a year; circa 144 pages per issue. Editor: Piotr Michalowski Associate Editors: Gary Beckman Elizabeth Carter Piotr Steinkeller Matthew Stolper Managing Editor:Billie Jean Collins Instructions for Contributors Current...
http://www.asor.org/pubs/jcs/jcs.html

Article from Acta Sumerologica 22. Introduction to the papers presented at the 6th meeting of the Sumerian Grammar Discussion Group, Oxford, 17th and 18th September 1999. (PDF)
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http://www.assziriologia.hu/downloads/introSGDG6.pdf

The Sumerian Home hosts two projects, The Cuneiform Dictionary and The Cuneiform Texts Resources.
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The Sumerian Home  You can locate any cuneiform sign in few seconds with TCD, our Cuneiform Dictionary no matter if the sign is broken, or is not in the New Assyrian form. You can locate any complex occurrence igi i-)du8, for example in...
http://www.sumerian.it