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Akkadian (advanced level) [GLOR2822]
[45h] 9 credits

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This course is taught in the 1st and 2nd semester

Teacher(s):

René Lebrun

Language:

French

Level:

Second cycle

>> Aims
>> Main themes
>> Content and teaching methods
>> Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
>> Other credits in programs

Aims

Good knowledge of the Akkadian language. Be able to transcribe a cuneiform text, to use the dictionaries, the literary journals and collection quite well.

Main themes

General revision of the grammar points. The course is focussed on the philological study of the Akkadian texts of the second millennium BC, especially the historic and religious texts of Mari, Emar, Ougarit and Nuzi.
Transcription exercises. Translation essays.

Content and teaching methods

Study of historic and religious texts of Mari, Emar, Ugarit and Nuzi. Photocopied notes will be handed out to the students.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisite : Being initiated to the languages with cuneiform writing or having followed the courses GLOR 1611-1612 (GLOR 1812).
Evaluation : written exam and translation of and comments on an unseen text.
Texts and books : Photocopied notes will be handed out to the students.

Other credits in programs

ARKE22

Deuxième licence en histoire de l'art et archéologie

(4 credits)

HORI22

Deuxième licence en langues et littératures orientales (philologie et histoire orientales)

(9 credits)

HORI2M1

Master en langues et littératures anciennes, orientation "orientales"

(9 credits)



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