Ancient Near Eastern Language Courses (ANEL)
246. (ANEL646) The Land of Sumer: Writing, Language, and Culture. (C) Tinney. This self-contained course sets the Sumerian language, writing system
and use of writing in their social and historical
context. The aim is to provide students of ancient
history and culture from diverse disciplines with
a good grounding in Sumerian culture, familiarity
with the Sumerian language and cuneiform writing
system and the requisite knowledge for critical
assessment of published translations and of the
secondary literature. The course is organized as
two threads, culture on the one hand and language
on the other. The two threads are united by taking
examples in the language exercises, vocabulary
assignments, etc., as far as possible from the
domain of the week's cultural topics. The net effect
is to examine the culture both through contemporary
secondary literature and through direct contact
with elementary primary texts of relevance to the
various topics of discussion. The language component
of the course will be carried out in a combination of transliteration and cuneiform, with an expectation that
all students will gain familiarity with at least
the core 80 syllabic signs, and about 100 additional
logographic signs.
440. (ANEL640) First Year Akkadian I. (A) Eichler. Introduction to the grammar of the Akkadian language with emphasis on developing
skills in the cuneiform writing system and reading
of selected texts.
441. (ANEL641) First Year Akkadian II. (B) Staff. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 440. Introduction to the grammar of the Akkadian language with emphasis on developing
skills in the cuneiform writing system and reading of selected texts.
460. (AFST460) Middle Egyptian. (E) Silverman. Introduction to the grammar of Middle Egyptian.
461. Middle Egyptian Texts: Literary. (C) Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Silverman. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 460.
This course will deal with those texts of the Middle Kingdom that are written
in the classical form of the language. It will include both monumental inscriptions, such as autobiographical stela inscriptions
(P. Newberry, BENI HASSAN) and stelae (Seth, LESESTUCKE) as well as narratives in prose (DeBuck, READING
BOOK). Religious texts (ibid. and COFFIN TEXTS) will also be studied and analyzed. Distinctions between the
grammar of the literary and nonliterary genres will be discussed.
462. (AFST462) Middle Egyptian Texts: Non-Literary. (C) Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Silverman. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 460. The course will emphasize non-literary texts dating to Middle Kingdom: letters,
reports, medical and mathematical papyri, and dialogues in tombs. The material will in large part be in the hieratic
script, except for the tomb inscriptions.
540. Akkadian Literary Texts. (C) Frame. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 441/641 (AMES 540). Readings in Akkadian literary texts from ancient Mesopotamia.
541.Akkadian Historical Texts. (C) Frame. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 441/641. Readings in Akkadian historical texts from ancient Mesopotamia
542. Akkadian Letters. (C) Eichler. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 441/641. Readings in Akkadian letters from ancient Mesopotamia.
546. Intermediate Sumerian. (E) Tinney.
549. Introduction to Hittite. (M) Staff. Basic grammar and vocabulary. Mastery of cuneiform writing system and reading
of selected texts.
560.Late Egyptian. (C) Staff. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 460. Introduction to the grammar of Late Egyptian.
561.Late Egyptian Texts: Literary. (C) Silverman. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 560 (AMES 560). This course will concentrate
on the literary texts of the New Kingdom: Late
Egyptian narratives such as THE DOOMED PRINCE,
THE TWO BROTHERS, and HOURS AND SETH (Gardiner,
LATE EGYPTIAN STORIES) and poetry; (Gardiner,
CHESTER BEATTY I and Muller, LIEBESPOESIE).
The grammar will be analyzed (Erman,NEUAGYPTISCHE GRAMMATIK and Korostovtzev, GRAMMARIE DU NEO-EGYPTIEN) and compared
to that used in non-literary texts (Groll, THE
NEGATIVE VERBAL SYSTEM OF LATE EGYPTIAN,NON-VERBAL
SENTENCE PATTERNS IN LATER EGYPTIAN, and THE
LITERARY AND NON-LITERARY VERBAL SYSTEMS IN
LATE EGYPTIAN).
562. Late Egyptian Texts: Non-Literary. (C) Silverman. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 560 (AMES 560). This course will concentrate
on the translation and grammatical analysis of
non-literary texts.
563.(AFST563) Old Egyptian. (C) Silverman. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 460. This course is an introduction to the
language of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. The grammar
of the period will be introduced during the early
part of the semester, using Ededl's ALTAGYPTISCHE
GRAMMATIK as the basic reference. Other grammatical
studies to be utilized will include works by
Allen, Baer, Polotsky,Satzinger, Gilula, Doret,
and Silverman. The majority of time in the course
will be devoted to reading varied textual material:
the unpublished inscriptions in the tomb of the
Old Kingdom offical Kapure--on view in the collection
of the University Museum; several autobiographical inscriptions as recorded by Sethe in URKUNDEN
I; and a letter in hieratic (Baer, ZAS 93, 1966,
1-9).
564. Ancient Egyptian Biographical Inscription. (M) Silverman.
571. History of the Linguistics of the Near East. (M) Staff.
572.(JWST558) Northwest Semitic Epigraphy. (D) Staff. Prerequisite(s): Ability to read an unpointed Hebrew text and facility
in the Hebrew Bible. This is a seminar in which
we read inscriptions in the Canaanite dialects
other than Hebrew (Phoenician, Moabite, Ammonite,
Edomite) as well as Aramaic and Philistine texts,
which were written in the 10th-6th centuries
BCE, and discovered in the last 140 years by
archeologists. The course is a continuation
of HEBR555, but can be taken independently.
573.Ugaritic I. (A) Staff. An introduction to the grammar of the Ugaritic language with emphasis on developing
skills in reading Ugaritic texts.
574.Ugaritic II. (B) Staff. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 573 or permission of the instructor. An introduction to the grammar of the Ugaritic language with emphasis on developing
skills in reading Ugaratic texts.
575.(JWST457) Aramaic I. (A) Staff. An introduction to the grammar of the Aramaic language with emphasis on developing
skills in reading Aramaic texts.
576.(JWST457) Aramaic II. (B) Staff. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 575 or permission of the instructor. An introduction to the grammar of the Aramaic language with emphasis on developing
skills in reading Aramaic texts.
577.Syriac I. (A) Staff. An introduction to the grammar of Syriac with emphasis on developing
skills in reading Syriac texts.
578.Syriac II. (B) Staff. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 577 or permission of the instructor. An introduction to the grammar of Syriac with emphasis on developing skills
in reading texts.
640. (ANEL440) First Year Akkadian I. (A) Eichler. Introduction to the grammar of the Akkadian language with emphasis on developing
skills in the cuneiform writing system and reading of selected texts.
641. (ANEL441) 1st Year Akkadian II. (M) Staff. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 440, ANEL 640 or permission of the instructor. Introduction to the grammar of the Akkadian language with emphasis on developing
skills in the cuneiform writing system and reading of selected texts.
646. (ANEL246) The Land of Sumer: Writing, Language, and Culture. (C) Tinney.
This self-contained course sets the Sumerian language, writing system and use
of writing in their social and historical context. The aim is to provide students of ancient history and culture from
diverse disciplines with a good grounding in Sumerian culture, familiarity with the Sumerian language and cuneiform writing
system and the requisite knowledge for critical assessment of published translations and of the secondary literature.
The course is organized as two threads, culture on the one hand and language on the other. The two threads are united
by taking examples in the language exercises, vocabulary
assignments, etc., as far as possible from the
domain of the week' cultural topics. The net effect
is to examine the culture both through contemporary
secondary literature and through direct contact
with elementary primary texts of relevance to the
various topics of discussion. The language component
of the course will be carried out in a combination
of transliteration and cuneiform, with an expectation
that all students will gain familiarity with at
least the core 80 syllabic signs, and about 100
additional logographic signs.
660.Old Egyptian Texts: Religious. (C) Silverman. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 563. This course will examine the texts and grammar of religious and wisdom literature.
The religious texts utilized will come from the spells of the Pyramid Texts (K. Sethe, DIE ALTAGYPTISCHEN PYRAMIDENTEXTS),
and the offering formulae carved on stelae and tomb walls. Sources for the latter will
include published and unpublished material from Dendera, Giza, and other sites in the collections of the University
Museum (H. Fischer, DENDERA IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM, B.C., C. Fisher, THE MINOR CEMETERIES AT GIZA and W. Barta,
AUFBAU UND BEDEUTUNG DER ALTAGYPTISCHEN OPFERFORMEL). For the wisdom literature, the
texts of Kagemni (Jequier, LE PAPYRUS PRISSE ET SES VARIANTES) and Prince Hordjedef (Brunner-Traut,
ZAS 76 (1940), 3-9 will be read.
661.Old Egyptian Texts: Secular. (C) Silverman. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 563. This course will concentrate on non-religious themes written in Old Egyptia
The texts utilized will include those written in the hieratic as well as hieroglyphic script; comparisons to and distinctions
between the grammar us in these texts and those in the religious material will be made. The autobiographical
inscriptions in tombs from Giza, Elephantine and Saqqara,(Sethe, URKUNDEN I) will be studied in addition to contemporaneous
letters (Gunn, ASAE 25, (1925) 242-55, Gardiner and Sethe, LETTERS to the DEAD,and P. Posener-Krieger,
HIERATIC PAPYRI in the BRITISH MUSEUM) and economic documents (ibid. and LES ARCHIVS du TEMPLE FUNERAIRE
de NEFERIRKARE-KAKAI).
664.(RELS616) Coptic. (M) Silverman. The course will be an introduction to the writing, grammar, and literature of
Coptic.
665Demotic. (M) Houser Wegner.The course will be an introduction to the writing, grammar, and literature of
Demotic, the phase of the language in use
during the latter periods of Egyptian history.
740.Akkadian Religious and Scientific Texts. (C) Frame. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 441/641. Readings in Akkadian of religious and
scientific texts from ancient Mesopotamia.
741.Akkadian Legal Texts. (C) Eichler. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 441/641. Readings in Akkadian legal texts and
law corpora from ancient Mesopotamia.
742.Akkadian Economic Texts. (C) Frame. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 441/641. Readings in Akkadian economic texts from
ancient Mesopotamia.
743.Peripheral Akkadian. (C) Eichler. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 441/641. Readings in selected texts in Akkadian from the periphery of Mesopotamia, including
Alalah, Ugarit, Nuzi, Suza and El-Amarna.
746. Readings in Sumerian Texts. (C) Tinney. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 246/646. Selected readings in Sumerian texts.
SM 748. Sumerian Seminar. (C) Tinney. Extensive readings in a variety of Sumerian texts.
SM 749. Seminar in Cuneiform Texts. (C) Staff. Prerequisite(s): ANEL 441. Extensive readings in selected cuneiform
texts.
Amharic Language Courses
481. (AFRC240, AFRC540, AFST240, AFST540) Elementary Amharic I. (A) Wogayehu.
482.(AFRC241, AFRC541, AFST241, AFST541) Elementary Amharic II. (B) Staff. Prerequisite(s): Completion of NELC 481 (AMES 240). Offered through
the Penn Language Center
483.(AFRC242, AFRC543, AFST242, AFST543) Intermediate Amharic I. (A) Wogayehu. Prerequisite(s): Completion of NELC 482 or permission of the instructor.
484. (AFRC243, AFRC544, AFST243, AFST544) Intermediate Amharic II. (B) Staff.
583. (AFST247, AFST547) Advanced Amharic. (M) Staff. Prerequisite(s): Completion of NELC 484 or permission of the instructor.
An advanced Amharic course that will further sharpen the students' knowledge
of the Amharic language and the culture of the Amharas. The learners communicative skills will be further developed
through listening, speaking, reading and writing. There will also be discussions on cultural and political issues.
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