Translating part II

So, after my previous adventure, the second half of translating was not nearly as exciting, but we got done what we needed to.

Adventures in the Life of Catherine Hawkley

Over the past two days I've kinda felt like a drug dealer.  I arranged drop off meetings, one of which occurred in a deserted lobby, and transported goods from one place to another.  These "goods" were actually and a page of translation we needed to create our tablet, so theses meetings were all completely legal, the setup just made me laugh.

A Brief Look at the Number Systems and Mathematics of Mesopatamia

So if Assyria had its own number system, it was not important enough for anyone to write about.  As it stands, most the information about Mesopotamian number systems is about Babylonian's system, with only  a little knowledge about its predecessor, Akkadian, and Akkadian's predecessor, Sumerian.

A Sumerian List of Amounts of Grain

Akkadian

This is a letter to a king

In case you are asking yourself "What the heck's Akkadian?  I thought she was supposed to blog about Assyria," I will explain.  Akkadian is the written language of Assyria.  It also the written language of Babylon, but they are slightly different dialects.