Language Hat’s comment in response to this post of PF’s leads me to the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, and, from there, to the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary. The former is an online collection of Sumerian literary texts, in the original language and in translation, and the latter is a project to assemble a Sumerian dictionary, which will be made available online for free. The first beta of the dictionary is intended to be online this summer. To understand how happy all this makes me, you should know that I’ve been interested in Sumer since I was about 14, and that I’ve been occasionally trolling the web for something like this since I first got online in 1995, when the closest thing I could find was John Heise’s Akkadian language page. All of you Great Books types should be interested too: what we’re talking about here is a collection of some of the first works of literature ever written.

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