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Works on Near Eastern Subjects reviewed by E. Burrows - 1. A Sumerian Reading-Book. By C. J. Gadd, M.A., Assistant in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, British Museum. 7 × 5, vii + 197 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1926

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1 I have noticed only one obscurity and one apparent mistake. Pp. 14 f. give the impression that the phonetic value of the h-sound is as accurately represented by our h (which is quite reasonably used for transcription) as by the usual ḫ. This would certainly be a novelty and can hardly be intended? On p. 27 the examples devised to illustrate the genitive—sib-zi-udu-ka, the true shepherd of the sheep, and sib-zi-udu-na-ka, the true shepherd of his sheep—are surely, to say the least, unclassical.