An Annotated Sumerian Dictionary:Sumerian was the first language to be put into writing (ca. 3200 3100 BCE), and it is the language for which the cuneiform script was originally developed. Even after it was supplanted by Akkadian as the primary spoken language in ancient Mesopotamia, Sumerian continued to be used as a scholarly written language until the end of the first millennium BCE. This volume presents the first comprehensive English language scholarly lexicon of Sumerian. This