Middle Assyrian
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Middle Assyrian is a historical dialect of the Akkadian language used in Assyria during the late second millennium BCE, notable from administrative, legal, and literary cuneiform texts.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Middle Assyrian canonical | 3 |
| Middle Assyrian period | 2 |
| Middle Assyrian Empire | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1734943 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Middle Assyrian Context triple: [Akkadian, hasDialect, Middle Assyrian]
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Old Assyrian
Old Assyrian is an early dialect of the Akkadian language used in the ancient city-state of Assur and in Old Assyrian trade colonies during the early second millennium BCE.
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Akkad
Akkad was an ancient Mesopotamian city and region best known as the center of the Akkadian Empire, one of the world’s earliest great empires.
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Assyria
Assyria was an ancient Mesopotamian kingdom and later empire known for its powerful military, advanced administration, and influential cities such as Nineveh and Ashur.
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Akkadians
The Akkadians were an ancient Semitic-speaking people of Mesopotamia who established one of the world’s first empires under rulers like Sargon of Akkad.
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E.
Neo-Babylonian Empire
The Neo-Babylonian Empire was a powerful Mesopotamian state of the 7th–6th centuries BCE, renowned for its conquest of Jerusalem, monumental architecture such as the Ishtar Gate, and the flourishing of Babylon as a major cultural and political center.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Middle Assyrian Target entity description: Middle Assyrian is a historical dialect of the Akkadian language used in Assyria during the late second millennium BCE, notable from administrative, legal, and literary cuneiform texts.
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A.
Old Assyrian
Old Assyrian is an early dialect of the Akkadian language used in the ancient city-state of Assur and in Old Assyrian trade colonies during the early second millennium BCE.
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B.
Akkad
Akkad was an ancient Mesopotamian city and region best known as the center of the Akkadian Empire, one of the world’s earliest great empires.
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C.
Assyria
Assyria was an ancient Mesopotamian kingdom and later empire known for its powerful military, advanced administration, and influential cities such as Nineveh and Ashur.
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D.
Akkadians
The Akkadians were an ancient Semitic-speaking people of Mesopotamia who established one of the world’s first empires under rulers like Sargon of Akkad.
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E.
Neo-Babylonian Empire
The Neo-Babylonian Empire was a powerful Mesopotamian state of the 7th–6th centuries BCE, renowned for its conquest of Jerusalem, monumental architecture such as the Ishtar Gate, and the flourishing of Babylon as a major cultural and political center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Akkadian dialect
ⓘ
historical language variety ⓘ |
| ancestor | Old Assyrian ⓘ |
| approximateEndDate | c. 1000 BCE ⓘ |
| approximateStartDate | c. 1400 BCE ⓘ |
| associatedWithState | Middle Assyrian Empire ⓘ |
| attestedIn |
administrative texts
ⓘ
economic documents ⓘ legal texts ⓘ literary texts ⓘ royal inscriptions ⓘ |
| descendant |
Neo-Assyrian
ⓘ
surface form:
Neo‑Assyrian
|
| differsFrom | Middle Babylonian in orthography and some phonology ⓘ |
| evidenceFrom |
archives at Assur
ⓘ
Library of Ashurbanipal ⓘ
surface form:
archives at Nineveh
archives at Tell Fekheriye ⓘ |
| extinctBy | first millennium BCE ⓘ |
| extinctionStatus | extinct ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
case system
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grammatical gender ⓘ verb conjugation with prefixes and suffixes ⓘ |
| influenced | Neo‑Assyrian orthography ⓘ |
| languageCodeStatus | not used as modern ISO 639 code ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Semitic languages ⓘ |
| legalCorpus | Middle Assyrian Laws ⓘ |
| partOf | Assyrian language ⓘ |
| phonologicalDevelopmentFrom | Old Assyrian ⓘ |
| primaryWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| reconstructedBy | Assyriologists ⓘ |
| region |
Upper Mesopotamia
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Upper Mesopotamia ⓘ
surface form:
northern Mesopotamia
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| scriptType | logo‑syllabic script ⓘ |
| sharesFeatureWith |
Akkadian
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surface form:
Babylonian dialects of Akkadian
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| standardizedIn |
Neo-Assyrian royal administration
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surface form:
royal chancery of Assyria
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| studiedInField |
Assyriology
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Semitic linguistics ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf |
Akkadian
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surface form:
Akkadian language
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| subfamily |
East Semitic
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surface form:
East Semitic languages
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| usedBy | Assyrian scribes ⓘ |
| usedFor |
diplomatic correspondence
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imperial administration ⓘ law codes ⓘ religious texts ⓘ scribal training ⓘ |
| usedIn | Assyria ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod | late second millennium BCE ⓘ |
| writingMaterial | clay tablets ⓘ |
| writingSystem | cuneiform ⓘ |
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Subject: Middle Assyrian Description of subject: Middle Assyrian is a historical dialect of the Akkadian language used in Assyria during the late second millennium BCE, notable from administrative, legal, and literary cuneiform texts.
Referenced by (6)
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