Assyrian and Babylonian medical texts written in cuneiform from the first millennium BCE provide a window onto how symptoms illness were understood. Akkadian language employs various strategies to convey aspects of an experience, including metaphor, which may one way conceptually organising experience filling blanks existing knowledge. One metaphor that appears therapeutic is low heart, often p...

Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylon from 1792 B.C. to 1750 B.C 1 . He is much celebrated for proclaiming a set of laws, called the Code of Hammurabi (The Code henceforward). The Code was written in the Akkadian language and engraved on black diorite, measuring about two-and-a-quarter meters. The tablet is on display in the Louvre, Paris. The stone carving on which the laws are written was found ...

Kitchen et al. (2009) analyze a data set of lexical trait data for twenty five Semitic languages, including ancient languages Hebrew, Aramaic and Akkadian, modern South Arabian and Arabic languages and fifteen ethiosemitic languages. They estimate a phylogenetic tree for the diversification of lexical traits using tree and trait models and methods set up for genetic sequence data. We reanalyze ...

T h i s p a p e r d e s c r i b e s a parsing/generation system for finite verbal forms in Akkadian, with the possible addition of suffixes, implemented in Prolog. The work described provides the framework and engine to interpret the D, N, and G stems along with accusative, dative and ventive endings.