Gelb Ignace J., Bartls J., Vance S.-M., Whiting R.M. Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite

The University of Chicago Press, 1980. — 673 p. — (Assyriological Studies 21).Our knowledge of non-Akkadian Semitic dialects that we conventionally call Amorite is based almost exclusively on the analysis of proper names. The bulk of these names appears in cuneiform texts, while about 100 are found in Egyptian inscriptions. The Computer-aided Analysis of Amorite lists 6,662 names excerpted from Sumerian and Akkadian texts dating mainly from the Old Babylonian period. Most names from earlier sources come from Sumerian administrative texts of the Ur III period. No Ebla material is reported. Names from post-Old Babylonian sources, such as Alalakh IV, Ugarit, and Qatna, are adduced only in cases where a point weakly documented in the Old Babylonian times needs bolstering from additional evidence.