Sumerologyn.
/ˌs(j)uːməˈrɒlədʒi/, U.S. /ˌsuməˈrɑlədʒi/ The study of the Sumerian language and culture.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > branches or types of history
ancient history1566
church story1581
archaeology1607
church history1609
local history1615
mythistory1731
human story1753
intellectual history1755
oral history1827
Assyriology1828
world history1833
hierologya1848
meta-history1854
Hibernologya1869
prehistory1871
proto-history1876
prehistorics1879
earth history1880
Sumerology1897
historiometry1909
black history1920
herstory1932
ethnohistory1938
meta-history1946
Annales1952
Hittitology1952
revisionism1965
longue durée1968
Warburgianism1977
the mind > language > languages of the world > isolates or no known affiliations > [noun] > others > study of
Sumerology1897
1897 Expositor Sept. 162 The firstfruits of his studies in Sumerology.
1963 Amer. Anthropologist 65 1381 This study of the earliest literate inhabitants of southernmost Mesopotamia affords the most complete general introduction to the field of Sumerology to date.
2012 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 41 5/2 I once made the informal suggestion that perhaps I should formally become a student of Sumerology under Jacobsen's mentorship.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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