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	Enheduanna
		Her process of invention is further complicated by the mention of the nuptial chamber alluding to the sacred marriage, a cultic ceremony about which little is known and much has been speculated.
		As Assyriologist Jerrold Cooper says it offers a "titllating scenario." Some scholars believe that it was sexual.3 Enheduanna likely participated in some such service as high priestess.
		Assyriologist Piotr Steinkeller reviewing the evidence for the sacred ceremony quotes with approval, Copper's assessment that it was "a way for the king and through him the people, to establish personal social ties with the gods." (135).
	www.public.asu.edu /~rbinkle/enheduanna.htm (1231 words)

	Assyriology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, training of Assyriologists has followed a traditional historical-philological path - in fact, a PhD apprenticeship, with less attention paid to questions around the philosophy of history, comparative anthropology or other fields which in easier circumstances, might be easier to incorporate in both training and publications.
		Few universities teach advanced Assyriology, and not that many teach, for example, introductory Akkadian which at least provides some orientation to the language and culture of the Latin of the Ancient Near East.
		Noted assyriologists include Austen Henry Layard, Leonard Woolley and Hormuzd Rassam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assyriology (595 words)

	Eden Or Paradise, The Flood - YHWH Sword History
		But later, in the course of centuries, at the period of the kings, and especially at that of the Exile, the archaic tradition of the Mesopotamian Flood was most probably revised and recast, to become, on a final analysis, a sort of moral tale.
		The reader is probably aware that certain Assyriologists pride themselves on having discovered at the site of their excavations very clear traces of the Flood.
		In the present state of our knowledge it would be wise to adopt conclusions like those of Andre Parrot, the Assyriologist: this flood, or rather the floods must be regarded merely as regional inundations due to the breaching of a dyke intended to retain as far as possible the waters of the river.
	www.yahwehsword.org /s-abraham/27_eden_or_paradise.htm (1381 words)

	Salon.com Technology \| Hey, mister -- wanna buy a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet for $10? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Robert K. Englund, an Assyriologist and Sumerologist at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA and a principal investigator on the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, says that many of these artifacts are real, but he wouldn't recommend buying them.
		An Assyriologist parsing an early cuneiform tablet at the Yale Babylonian Collection or the Hermitage would copy the words on each tablet by hand, writing a transliteration in Latin characters of what it said on the same card, noting the relationships between words and characters.
		Assyriologists hope that the new digital archives and dictionaries, online collections of images and documentation that now number in the tens of thousands, will open up their field, if not to laypersons then to other scholars in fields such as economic history.
	www.salon.com /tech/feature/2002/05/11/sumerian/print.html (2070 words)

	History of the History of Math Dept.
		At Chicago he found not only tablets, but Abraham J. Sachs, a brilliant young Assyriologist whom he brought to Brown as a research assistant with the help of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
		Since the Department of Mathematics balked at promoting an Assyriologist to a professorial rank, Brown's then President, Henry Wriston, created the Department of the History of Mathematics for Neugebauer and Sachs, primarily as a research unit, but also with the responsibility to train highly qualified Graduate Students.
		The first of these were Olaf Schmidt, who continued the still flourishing tradition of the Neugebauer approach to the History of Mathematics in Denmark, and Asger Aaboe, who initiated the same tradition (now regrettably dead at his retirement) at Yale.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/History_Mathematics/history.html (522 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Looters May Have Destroyed Priceless Cuneiform Archive
		UCLA Assyriologist Robert Englund noted that while some of the Sippar material was similar, at least in part, to works in earlier finds, "the vast majority of at least 100,000 texts in the archive are unique, very poorly documented and barely studied, if at all.
		The extent of the damage is not yet known, but experts at a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization meeting in Paris yesterday confirmed that looters smashed or stole thousands of tablets.
		While early concern focused on the destruction of world-famous artifacts, the small corps of linguists, Assyriologists and epigraphers who study early writings -- perhaps 200 experts worldwide -- was distraught over the lost texts.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A48178-2003Apr17?language=printer (1134 words)

	Edward_Hincks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Edward Hincks (August 19, 1792 - December 3, 1866), Irish Assyriologist and one of the decipherers of Mesopotamian cuneiform.
		The eldest son of a distinguished Protestant minister, Edward Hincks was born in Cork on 19 August 1792.
		In 1857 the versatile English Orientalist William Henry Fox Talbot suggested that an undeciphered cuneiform text be given to several different Assyriologists to translate.
	www.startrekconvention.com /search.php?title=Edward_Hincks (744 words)

	Some Modern Historians of Ancient Occidental Astral Sciences
		The masterly copies of cuneiform astronomical and astrological texts that the pioneer British assyriologist Theophilus Pinches had made during his employment there between 1895 and 1900, and which had been kept locked in a cupboard for some 50 years, were made available to Sachs.
		Following Deimel's death in 1954 the assyriologist Werner Mayer SJ was put in charge of Strassmaier's material at the Pontificio Istituto Biblico in Rome.
		As a young Assyriologist Ernst Weidner was strongly influenced by the Assyriologist and Panbabylonist Felix Peiser (who was editor of the journal Orientalistische Literaturzeitung).
	members.optusnet.com.au /~gtosiris/page9i.html (7323 words)

	Stephan Maul speaks on campus: 5/99
		Maul, a world-renowned Assyriologist at the University of Heidelberg's Seminar for Languages and Cultures of the Middle East, held the audience at the Cantor Arts Center auditorium in an intense, captivated grip on Monday evening.
		While most Assyriologists concentrate on particular kinds of texts business contracts, wills, lists of rations, grammatical tables, dedications, hymns or prayers and focus on specific time periods, Maul links the specialized subfields and draws the overarching conclusions.
		Maul noted that Assyriologists are "a long way from even starting to be able to understand the complex system of correlations which are inherent in the countless cuneiform texts of all genres."
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/1999/may19/maul-519.html (1459 words)

	George Smith (Assyriologist) - LoveToKnow 1911
		GEORGE SMITH (1840-1876), English Assyriologist, was born on the 26th of March 1840 at Chelsea, London.
		His father was a working man, and at fourteen the boy was apprenticed to Messrs Bradbury and Evans to learn bank-note engraving.
		This page was last modified 08:34, 3 Sep 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /George_Smith_(Assyriologist) (393 words)

	Hey, mister -- wanna buy a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet for $10? - Salon
		An Assyriologist parsing an early cuneiform tablet at the Yale Babylonian Collection or the Hermitage would copy the words on each tablet by hand, writing a transliteration in Latin characters of what it said on the same card, noting the relationships between words and characters.
		Assyriologists hope that the new digital archives and dictionaries, online collections of images and documentation that now number in the tens of thousands, will open up their field, if not to laypersons then to other scholars in fields such as economic history.
		Allowing the data from the documents to be studied and analyzed in the aggregate could lead to new discoveries about how the ancient society functioned.
	dir.salon.com /story/tech/feature/2002/05/11/sumerian/?pn=3 (880 words)

	Genesis merely a rip-off of other ANE lit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This is surprising, since this position hasn't been the 'consensus' position of mainstream Assyriologist scholars in the field--regardless of 'confessional stance!--for over thirty years.
		Assyriologists, who now espoused to a school of thought called 'Pan-Babylonianism', championed by H. Winckler, who argued that all world myths were reflections of Babylonian astral religion which had developed about 3000 BCE.
		There are, of course, other scholars (but very few Assyriologists) who DO see wholesale borrowing-usage (with approval), but the trend today is away from this--and more toward a recognition of the overwhelming differences between any set of proposed parallels.
	www.christian-thinktank.com /gilgymess.html (7760 words)

	The Development, Heyday, and Demise of Panbabylonism
		In 1891 the Reverend Archibald Sayce (1846-1933), a pioneer Assyriologist, was appointed Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford and held the position until 1919.
		The ideas of the German Assyriologist Hugo Winckler (1863-1913), a Cuneiform Philologist and Professor at the University of Berlin, were to lead to the school of thought termed Panbabylonism.
		The German Assyriologist Heinrich Zimmern (1862-1931) collected a mass of material from Babylonian sources which he used in an attempt to prove that the "Christusmythe" is derived from the legends of the Babylonian god Bel-Merodach.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~gtosiris/page9e.html (7218 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Exhibitions
		Among his clients, Géjou mentions professors Ungnad and Delitzsch from Berlin, well-known Assyriologists from the beginning of the 20th century, and Columbia University in New York.
		The tablets that ended up in Europe, most likely, from illegal excavations in Jokha and Drehem, were distributed by Géjou’s office throughout various museums and collections all over the world, and Likhachev’s collection was not the least of these.
		The receipt also states that out of 1,310 tablets, 790 had not yet been published, and 520 were published by M. Nikolsky, the great Russian Assyriologist from the beginning of the 20th century.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/12/2003/hm12_1_16_1.html (1124 words)

	Department of Archaeology - Aramaic Impressions on Bricks from Babylon
		Some of the bricks with Aramaic and figural impressions, are kept in the Berlin Museum.
		I was asked by the museum to undertake the publication of this material together with the museum's Assyriologist Dr. Joachim Marzahn.
		As noted, my aim is the final publication of this rich material - the illustration of all impressions, as well as the study of the palaeographical, chronological, onomastic and historical aspects.
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/archaeology/projects/proj_aramaic.html (607 words)

	Learn about Garden Gnomes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		However, to do the good lady justice, let his attire be never so modest, it gave an effect of barbaric splendor.
		At his left sat hisr Schotte, the Assyriologist, whose features were effectually concealed by the convergence of his hair and beard, and whose glasses were continually falling into his plate.
		This gentleman had removed more tons of earth in the course of his explorations than had any of his confreres, and his vigorous attack upon his food seemed to suggest the strenuous nature of his accustomed toil.
	www.garden-gnomes-need-homes.com /stories/al-hermans-garden-gnome-tale-11.htm (340 words)

	Ramapo Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The 164 texts and fragments that comprise the Museum’s holdings from private family archives written during the first millennium B.C. are presented in a format that includes copies, transliterations, translations, and commentary together with drawings, photographs, and commentary on stamp seal, cylinder seal, and ring impressions.
		Spar is a professor of history and ancient studies and a research Assyriologist at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
		For ten years, he was director of the New Jersey Archaeological Consortium excavation team that unearthed the 3,000 year-old center of Geshurite civilization, located at Tel Hadar, Israel on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
	ramapo.edu /test/content/quick.look/magazine/vol2issue2F01/spar.html (308 words)

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		While carrying on work on the inscriptions of Sargon II for a volume of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia project, I noted the possibility that the inscription at Tang-i Var would need to go in that volume.
		Labat was one of the leading Assyriologists of his time.
		In the spring of 2000 I sought a second opinion from a respected Assyriologist.
	www.kent.net /DisplacedDynasties/Tang-i_Var.htm (8401 words)

	The State Archives of Assyria Project Takes a Bold New Step
		Parpola, the head of the prestigious State Archives of Assyria Project, stated in his letter that they are organizing a long-term research project entitled "The Intellectual Heritage of Assyria in Classical Antiquity".
		Parpola declared that, "we are confident that the project will open many new perspectives, encourage collaboration between Assyriologists, Classicists and historians of religion, and contribute significantly to the history and ethnic identity of the present-day Assyrians".
		In addition to Assyriologists, participants include well known Classicists and Iranists, like Walter Burkert, Martin West, Kurt Raaflaub, Robert Rollinger, and Antonio Panaino, who have made significant contributions to the subject in their past work.
	www.aina.org /releases/helsinki.htm (519 words)

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		The Assyriologist must admit that ironically it was the Bible which helped illuminate the newly found cuneiform documents in the nineteenth century, as it provided transcriptions of five of the names of the Assyrian kings.
		Another Assyriologist interested in biblical connections was A.H. Sayce, an Anglican priest who was a prolific writer who periodically attempted to prove historical details of the Bible from Assyrian and Babylonian sources.
		By the 1920's Assyriologists began to deemphasize the theme of origins, and were now intent to stress the distinctive elements of Mesopotamian civilization.
	www.johnnewtoncenter.org /babel-lecture.doc (5771 words)

	Gazette: Spreading the Word (Jan/Feb 2003)
		The source of Hilprecht’s anguish during that winter of 1889 was a great trove of antiquities, including cuneiform tablets, recently purchased by two members of the Babylonian Exploration Fund.
		As an Assyriologist with a high opinion of his own abilities, he was appalled that his colleagues on the expedition hadn’t even offered him a peek.
		Seven months after setting out, the explorers were still waiting for official permission to excavate at Nippur, and the Wali had just denied them an audience because of a toothache.
	www.upenn.edu /gazette/0103/frith.html (248 words)

	assyriologist - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Assyriologist : Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition [home, info]
		Assyriologist : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=assyriologist&ls=a (95 words)

	The Amarna Letters
		Dating to the 14th century B.C., these letters are primary source material for the political and military situation of Canaan and the ancient Near East roughly in the age of Moses and the Exodus.
		This translation, by Assyriologist and Amarna expert William Moran, is the standard English edition, with introduction, extensive notes, and commentary.
		This work is an essential resource for the study of the Egyptian New Kingdom as well as of Syria-Palestine in the late Bronze Age.
	www.logos.com /ebooks/details/amarna (176 words)

	Online Knowledge Explorer®/Encyclopedia Americana® (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		As a rule, the Assyriologist specializes in the inscriptions and their interpretation, but since it is exceedingly hard to differentiate clearly between inscriptions and their content, and between higher and lower culture, he also becomes historian and sociologist, geographer, and anthropologist, as well as philologian.
		There are now scores of active Assyriologists in the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Iraq, and elsewhere, who are continuing the best traditions of the great German school.
		Owing to the fact that cuneiform was so widely used in antiquity, the Assyriologist finds it necessary to deal with tablets in Akkadian and non-Akkadian cuneiform from many countries around the periphery of Mesopotamia.
	oke.grolier.com /InfoOffset=2427&FFC=F&OEMTag=DW&MajorVersion=14&EAID=0024360-00.ea (4010 words)

	Lit.Org - Writers resources, epublishing, zines, stories, authors, interviews, chat, links and more!
		Sayce was perhaps the foremost Assyriologist of his time; a professor at Oxford, he produced this text originally in 1875 for the purposes of teaching, and to that end it is well suited.
		Until the advent of computer-driven printing services, it was rare indeed for a book such as this to use actual cunieform markings, preferring a substitution method for instruction.
		The grammar follows a fairly standard pattern of setting out pieces -- nouns, numerals, pronouns, verbs, prepositions, adverbs -- then discusses briefly the phonology (however, in many cases, these are educated guesses, based upon knowledge of related modern languages' phonology) and accentuation.
	www.lit.org /bookstore/item/1579109659 (563 words)

	THE CHICAGO ASSYRIAN DICTIONARY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This year, before receiving her B.A. and M.A. in June, she compiled various indices to recently published text editions and noted any newly edited or discussed text in the copies of older publications.
		From those recently published volumes that contain word indices-a rarity, alas!-she was also able to update the card file, without being a trained Assyriologist.
		The fame of the Assyrian Dictionary is attested to by the now annual visit of the Benton Fellows.
	www-oi.uchicago.edu /OI/AR/92-93/92-93_CAD.html (619 words)

	Talbot Correspondence Project: BIRCH Samuel to TALBOT William Henry Fox, 25 Jul 1876 [00985]
		A new French Assyriologist has appeared the Comte de Blaras a young man and pupil of Oppert.
		William St Chad Boscawen (1854–1913), Assyriologist and author.
		Prof Julius Oppert (1825–1905), German Assyriologist, active in Paris.
	www.foxtalbot.arts.gla.ac.uk /corresp/00985.asp?target=75 (172 words)

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