Ignace Jay Gelb (October 14, 1907 – December 22, 1985) was a Polish-American Assyriologist who pioneered the scientific study of writing systems. Born...

diplomat Howe Gelb, American musician Ignace Gelb (1907–1985), Polish American ancient historian Jan Gelb (1906-1978), American artist Jerry Gelb, actor, voice...

that a system like Aramaic must be either a syllabary, as argued by Ignace Gelb, or an incomplete or deficient alphabet, as most other writers had said...

systems or scripts. This usage was first elucidated in English by linguist Ignace Gelb in his 1952 book A Study of Writing. The equivalent word is recorded...

excavations had revealed nothing on the same scale. In agreement with Ignace Gelb's theories on the subject of all inhabited centers in Syria of the same...

engraver Ignace Gata Mavita wa Lufuta (born 1949), Congolese diplomat Ignace Gelb (1907–1985), Polish-American ancient historian and Assyriologist Ignace Gibsone...

According to a theory proposed by Ignace Gelb, the Kish civilization encompassed the sites of Ebla and Mari in the Levant, Nagar in the north, and the...

graphemes. At the beginning of the development of this area of linguistics, Ignace Gelb coined the term grammatology for this discipline; later some scholars...

the origin of the alphabet. Many classical scholars, such as historian Ignace Gelb, credit the Ancient Greeks for creating the first alphabetic system (c...

was sometimes written logographically as dPA and Hanish's as dLUGAL. Ignace Gelb proposed that their names were derived from the Akkadian words šullatum...

begun in 1921 by J. H. Breasted, and continued by Edward Chiera and Ignace Gelb, with the first volume published in 1956. Erica Reiner as editor-in-charge...

or Kish tradition is a concept created by Ignace Gelb and discarded by more recent scholarship, which Gelb placed in what he called the early East Semitic...

Luwian inscription of king Saruanis from Andaval as was pointed out by Ignace Gelb (Hittite Hieroglyphs II [1935] pp. 17–18). Then came Assyrians and Phrygians...

American conductor (Tabernacle Choir). Osvaldo Farrés, 82, Cuban musician. Ignace Gelb, 78, Polish-American grammatologist, leukemia. Lawrence Hauben, 54, American...

Ilabrat's name, including good of (the land/city) Iabrat" (suggested by Ignace Gelb) and "tutelary god of the simple people"(suggested by Thorkild Jacobsen)...

governor of Urartu. The Assyriologist Ignace Gelb added that the name of Antarii̯a is likely of Hurrian origin. Gelb, Ignace (1944). Hurrians and Subarians (PDF)...

two left figures each extend an arm; according to the 1939 sketch by Ignace Gelb, the right figure had the same posture, but this cannot be seen any more...

the Uruk Expansion and hence originally Sumerian language speaking. Ignace Gelb identified Kish as the center of the earliest East Semitic culture which...

of Nikarawa with Ninkarrak has a long history in modern scholarship. Ignace Gelb already proposed it in his translation of the Carchemish inscription...

in reading the script. In the 1930s, it was partially deciphered by Ignace Gelb, Piero Meriggi, Emil Forrer, and Bedřich Hrozný. Its language was confirmed...

nature. Mythology portal Asia portal Scorpion goddess Civil, Manuel; Gelb, Ignace J.; Landsberger, Benno; Oppenheim, A. Leo; Reiner, Erica, eds. (1968)...

nobody.” The reading of the first element in his name is uncertain, as Ignace Gelb and Benno Landsberger originally proposed BAR, giving Kidin-Ninua, "[Under]...

1955), linguist who translated and annotated of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Ignace Gelb (Polish, American, 1907–1985), linguist who published editions of Akkadian...

throughout the Mediterranean region of the Middle East. According to Ignace J. Gelb, an Akkadian language word that can be read sarsar may refer to a spice...

was found dead of apparent natural causes in November 1982. Professor Ignace Gelb told the Washington Post that: "He didn't need the money. We used to...

Kemaleddin Karamete of Kayseri in 1934. In 1935 the American orientalist Ignace Gelb visited the site. Sedat Alp and Ekrem Akurgal recorded the inscription...

 116. Gelb 1938, p. 201. Gelb 1938, p. 202. Hutter-Braunsar 2019, p. 518. Hutter-Braunsar 2019, p. 527. Sibbing-Plantholt 2022, p. 112. Gelb, Ignace J. (1938)...

known. The original publication by the Polish-American Assyrologist Ignace Gelb only says that the fragment was found at Veliisa (now called Yaylayolu)...

History of music theory during the 15th century Near Eastern Studies Ignace Gelb University of Chicago Moshe Greenberg University of Pennsylvania George...

Paris: CNRS. I. Gelb. La lingua degli amoriti, Academia Nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti 8, no. 13 (1958): 143–163. [1]Ignace J. Gelb, "Computer-aided...