College of Archaeology

The Department of Ancient Iraqi Languages at the College of Archeology, University of Mosul, held a seminar entitled (Footnote Comments in Lexical Cuneiform Texts) on Tuesday 1/2/2024. The seminar was delivered by Assistant Professor Dr. Ahmed Mayser Fadel. Part of the seminar was attended by Assistant Professor Dr. Yasser Jaber Khalil, Dean’s Assistant for Scientific Affairs and Assistant Professor Dr. Moaz Habash Khadr, Head of the Department of Ancient Iraqi Languages, and a number of college staff. The seminar was held in Dr. Behnam Abu Al-Souf’s hall in the college. Footnote comments (appendix) are concluding statements that are recorded with an independent and distinct footnote at the end of each tablet or lexical series and the comprehensive information it contains, starting with the follow-up lines that sequence and arrange the classification of the lexical material, then the tablet number, the name of the series, its sections, and the number of lines, as well as the method of arrangement. The writing of these tablets and the sources of their examples, whether they are old copies, exact copies or reproduced at random, in addition to the information related to the people responsible for recording them, including scribes, the names of their owners, and their reviewers who examined them from a scientific and linguistic standpoint, and explaining the purpose of writing these dictionaries, and ending with the disclosure of wishes, supplications, and prayers which hopes to preserve these tablets, to pronounce curses, to list expressions of threat and threat to anyone who harms them, and finally to write the date in which these tablets were written.