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- proper noun The historical period of the First Babylonian Dynasty.
- proper noun The
Akkadian language spoken at that time.
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Examples
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His native tongue is Akkadian, Old Babylonian, from thousands of years ago.
Fatal Circle Linda Robertson 2010
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Through no fault of Jasper Griffin's, in his review of Stephen Mitchell's new translation of Gilgamesh [NYR, March 9], Sumerian was said to be one of the Semitic family of languages, along with the Akkadian and Old Babylonian languages.
Corrections Editors, The 2006
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Chanaanite myth, the Egyptian, Old Babylonian, and Persian religions are regarded as the sources of Israelitic religion, the latter itself having developed from Fetichism and Animism into Henotheism and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Playlist: www. youtube.com List of uploads within playlist: berties-teapot. blogspot.com The Enûma Eliš has about a thousand lines and is recorded in Old Babylonian on seven clay tablets, each holding between 115 and 170 lines of text.
WN.com - Articles related to Obama has Carter-esque foreign policy 2010
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Mesopotamia; Old Babylonian, ca. 1760 B.C. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY; Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des Antiquités Orientales)
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They would check off boxes on the card that indicated the grammatical form in which the word was used in the particular bit of text (singular or plural, masculine or feminine, nominative or genitive or accusative, noun or pronoun or adverb, etc), the dialect and period of the text (Old Akkadian, Old Assyrian, Old Babylonian, Middle Assyrian,
Chicago Reader 2010
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