Assyrian Language: Easy Lessons in the Cuneiform Inscriptions (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Assyrian Language: Easy Lessons in the Cuneiform Inscriptions<br><br>The last two chapters contain a series of short extracts from historical documents together with trans literations and translations and a glossary; every verb is parsed in the footnotes to the texts and every form explained which might prove puzzling to the beginner. The chief object throughout has been to make the reader familiar with the most common signs and words and grammatical forms so that after reading through the extracts from texts here given he will be in a position to attack the longer and more varied inscriptions in my First Steps in Assyrian.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.