Download or read book A Sumerian Reader written by Konrad Volk and published by Gregorian Biblical BookShop. This book was released on 1997 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 44 texts of varying contents: royal inscriptions, legal, and economic documents. For pedagogical reasons literary texts are not included. Some of the texts are accompanied by a transliteration and/or version in Neo-Assyrian so that the students can learn the Neo-Assyrian forms which are of basic importance for the use of the sign list book and for most assyriological sign lists.