29 courses with the subject AMEL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Introduction to the grammar of the Akkadian language with emphasis on developing skills in the cuneiform writing system and reading of select texts. Not Offered Every Year Mutually Exclusive: AMEL 6000 1 Course Unit
A continuation of First Year Akkadian I, this class teaches the grammar of the Akkadian language with emphasis on developing skills in the cuneiform writing system and reading of selected texts.
An introduction to the grammar and writing system of the Sumerian language
Readings in Akkadian literary texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Not Offered Every Year Mutually Exclusive: AMEL 6250 1 Course Unit
Readings in Akkadian historical texts from ancient Mesopotamia Not Offered Every Year Mutually Exclusive: AMEL 6300 1 Course Unit
Reading administrative and economic texts in the Sumerian Language from ancient Mesopotamia. Not Offered Every Year Mutually Exclusive: AMEL 7300 1 Course Unit University of Pennsylvania Catalog 1033
Introduction to the grammar of Middle Egyptian. Not Offered Every Year Mutually Exclusive: AMEL 6202 1 Course Unit
This course will deal with those texts of the Middle Kingdom that are written in the classical form of the language. It will include both monumental inscriptions, such as autobiographical stela inscriptions (P. Newberry, BENI HASSAN) and stelae (Seth, LESESTUCKE) as well as narratives in prose (DeBuck, READING BOOK). Religious texts (ibid. and COFFIN TEXTS) will also be studied and analyzed. Distinctions between the grammar of the literary and non-literary genres will be discussed.
Introduction to the grammar of the Akkadian language with emphasis on developing skills in the cuneiform writing system and reading of selected texts. ed Not Offered Every Year Mutually Exclusive: AMEL 4000 1 Course Unit
A continuation of 1st Year Akkadian I, this class builds on the lessons of that class on the grammar of the Akkadian language with emphasis on developing skills in the cuneiform writing system and reading of selected texts. To take this class without first having taken 1st Year Akkadian I requires permission of the instructor.
An introduction to the grammar and writing system of the Sumerian language Not Offered Every Year Mutually Exclusive: AMEL 4200 1 Course Unit
Introduction to the grammar of Middle Egyptian. Not Offered Every Year Mutually Exclusive: AMEL 4500 1 Course Unit
Readings in Akkadian literary texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Not Offered Every Year Mutually Exclusive: AMEL 4250 1 Course Unit
Readings in Akkadian historical texts from ancient Mesopotamia Not Offered Every Year Mutually Exclusive: AMEL 4300 1 Course Unit 2026-27 Catalog | Generated 08/03/26
Readings in Akkadian letters from ancient Mesopotamia. Not Offered Every Year 1 Course Unit
Reading literary texts in the Sumerian Language from ancient Mesopotamia. Not Offered Every Year 1 Course Unit
The course will be an introduction to the writing, grammar, and literature of Demotic, the phase of the language in use during the latter periods of Egyptian history. Not Offered Every Year 1 Course Unit
Introduction to the grammar of Late Egyptian. Not Offered Every Year 1 Course Unit
This course is an introduction to the language of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. The grammar of the period will be introduced during the early part of the semester, using Ededl's ALTAGYPTISCHE GRAMMATIK as the basic reference. Other grammatical studies to be utilized will include works by Allen, Baer, Polotsky, Satzinger, Gilula, Doret, and Silverman. Th majority of time in the course will be devoted to reading varied textual material: the unpublished inscriptions in the tomb of the Old Kingdom offical Kapure--on view in the collection of the University Museum; several autobiographical inscriptions as recorded by Sethe in URKUNDEN I; and a letter in hieratic (Baer, ZAS 93, 1966, 1-9). Not Offered Every Year 1 Course Unit
The course will be an introduction to the writing, grammar, and literature of Coptic. Not Offered Every Year 1 Course Unit
Readings in Akkadian texts on selected topics. Not Offered Every Year 1 Course Unit 2026-27 Catalog | Generated 08/03/26
This self-contained course sets the Sumerian language, writing system and use of writing in their social and historical context. The aim is to provide students of ancient history and culture from diverse disciplines with a good grounding in Sumerian culture, familiarity with the Sumerian language and cuneiform writing system and the requisite knowledge for critical assessment of published translations and of the secondary literature. The course is organized as two threads, culture on the one hand and language on the other. The two threads are united by taking examples in the language exercises, vocabulary assignments, etc., as far as possible from the domain of the week' cultural topics. The net effect is to examine the culture both through contemporary secondary literature and through direct contact with elementary primary texts of relevance to the various topics of discussion. The language component of the course will be carried out in a combination of transliteration and cuneiform, with an expectation that all students will gain familiarity with at least the core 80 syllabic signs, and about 100 additional logographic signs. Not Offered Every Year 1 Course Unit
Reading administrative and economic texts in the Sumerian Language from ancient Mesopotamia. Not Offered Every Year Mutually Exclusive: AMEL 4420 1 Course Unit
Readings in Akkadian of religious and scientific texts from ancient e Mesopotamia. Not Offered Every Year 1 Course Unit
Readings in selected texts in Akkadian from the periphery of Mesopotamia, including Alalah, Ugarit, Nuzi, Suza and El-Amarna. Not Offered Every Year 1 Course Unit
Readings in Akkadian legal texts and law corpora from ancient Mesopotamia. Not Offered Every Year 1 Course Unit
Readings in Akkadian economic texts from ancient Mesopotamia. Not Offered Every Year 1 Course Unit
Selected readings in Sumerian texts. Not Offered Every Year 1 Course Unit
Advanced Sumerian reading course with varying selections of texts studied from paleographical, lexicographic, linguistic, historical, and cultural perspectives 1 Course Unit
Source: University of Pennsylvania's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
