EXERCISE 1. PRONOUNS AND PREPOSITIONS bw poop min ys wap mara ob .1 spb name may 1 NED Tat .2 srotins sy t>ea nay ot mat as x2bn .3 Tt NBO AND .4 ody ay mit xr ya ma RN 3 nerdy om 5 soy mbw J wart am xd ym 6 snp by yaor aot spo> Jb nam .7 Note: gnv3 33 yor xx or NNT 8 poses ct owns yp by .9 spy vais by 5 os 1 921.10 All of the above are taken from genuine Achaemenid Aramaic texts from Egypt. Vocabulary which is given in the skeleton grammar (even if well hidden!) is not repeated here. VocaBULARY: NTN (‘dgdrd), the temple. THOTT (an Iranian deity, for you to identify!) i715 (-élaha), the god [ef. Allah, El]. “WAN (amar, \’MR), he said. NUTR (ard), the earth, ground, land, DUNE (an Iranian official, of interest to this seminar.) NNT (birta), the fortress. M3 (bayta), the house [ef. Beth-lehem, “House of bread’). (NB ‘in the house’ is not S723, but just 8°.) 2° (veb), Elephantine, 77 (vahab, VYHB), he gave, he has given 13M (vihbet, VYHB), I gave, I have given. 5> (Kol), all, every. NBDD (Kaspa), silver, money. 25m (malka), the king [cf. Melchi-zedeq, ‘king of righteousness’, Malchus} JUS (nisrin), Egypt. 8719 (mara), lord [ef. Maran-ath, ‘Come our Lord!"]. NED (sipra), the book, document. 1739 (‘ibder, V“BD), | did, I have done. ilam), perpetuity, (an age). Tw (salah, VSLED, send! (SM imperative). mevSy (salita, VSLT), have authority, power (SF adj.) [ef. Sultan}, bw (salam), peace [ef. Hebrew ‘shalom’, Arabic ‘salaam’] TIM (tama), there.