Departments and Collections List
Aug 6, 2007 2:26:57 GMT -5
Post by us4-he2-gal2 on Aug 6, 2007 2:26:57 GMT -5
Thread Orientation: This thread is intended as a loose correspondence of Ancient Near Eastern Departments, their resident Faculty, and any Cuneiform Tablet Collections that may be associated with a given university.
In the best case scenarios, Ive been able to include some information about an ANE department, its faculty, and associated cuneiform collection these are listed under "Departments and Collections". However If a department doesnt have a tablet collection (or Ive been unable to observe one) it is listed under "Departments". On the other hand, if a tablet Collection is not associated ANE department, Ive mentioned them still lower under "Collections." All correction and allusion to specific blunder will be welcome.
The information below is more or less the result of a personal survey of an obscure field via the www, so it's not imagined to be to be authoritative. The result is a reference guide of sorts, which I hope will be of some use here, I know I'll be using it. There is some significant information redundancy with certain areas of the CDLI wiki, especially in terms of collection information.
***UPDATED APRIL 2012: My listing of faculty follows the data given at each campus website - I have limited my listing to those I identify as being directly involved with Mesopotamian work, archaeological or philological - respectfully saving those involved with i.e. art history and so on to a more comprehensive list. Please contact me with corrections!
Loose Definitions:
Departments: For this list Ive included only those departments in which Ive been able to confirm Sumerian or Akkadian is taught. For example although Princeton has an Near East department, as I havent observed these language as being offered there Ive given no mention of this department.
Collections: I am attempting here to give mention to any Cuneiform tablet collection, regardless of size, affiliation, or research value.
CDLI: Collection names and Museum identifiers with the newer cdli user in mind.
Publications: When present, Ive listed here a few choice reference's to publications treating tablets in a given collection. These references arent inclusive nor are they endorsements, just a sampling.
Notes: Indicate the host of major ANE projects i.e ePSD or DCCLT.
Lastly as this list is just a loose personal survey, if you have something pressing it would be wise to take advantage of the given urls to investigate certain choice details. Ive started with the U.S, still to come the U.K, Germany and others.
Yale University:
Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations - www.yale.edu/nelc/ [Sumerian]
Faculty listed:
-Benjamin R. Foster (Curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection)
Eckart Frahm (Director of Graduate Studies Assyriology)
Kathryn Slanski (Assyriology)
-William W. Hallo ( Emeritus Professor)
Associated Collection: www.library.yale.edu/libraries/babylonian.html
The Yale Babylonian Collection, consisting of six groups 1. (YBC) Yale Babylanian Collection, 2. (NBC) Nies Babylonian Collection 3. (MLC) Morgan Library Collection 4. Goucher College Collection (GCC) 5. (NCBT/NCBS) Newell Collections of Babylonian Tablets and of Babylonian Seals 6. (RBC) Rosen Babylonian Collection.
CDLI: With the exception of GCC, all of the above abbreviations will load cdli entries when entered into the "Museum Number" field.
Publications: BIN - Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies, BRM - Babylonian Records in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan, YOS/YOSBT - Yale Oriental Series, YOSR - Yale Oriental Series, Researches, TBC - Texts from the Babylonian Collection, GCCI - Goucher College Cuneiform Inscriptions, YNER - Yale Near Eastern Researches
Pennsylvania University:
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations - www.sas.upenn.edu/nelc [Sumerian]
Faculty listed:
-Grant Frame (Associate Professor of Assyriology in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations)
-Stephen J. Tinney (Clark Research Associate Professor of Assyriology; Associate Curator, Babylonian Section, University Museum (Sumerian language and literature)
-Richard L. Zettler (Department Chair; Associate Professor; Associate Curator-in-Charge, Near Eastern Section of the University Museum)
-Åke W. Sjøberg (Emeritus Clark Research Professor of Assyriology; Emeritus Curator, Tablet Collection, University Museum (Sumerian))
-Erle V. Leichty (Emeritus Clark Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Emeritus Curator, University Museum (Akkadian))
Note: The ePSD an effort begun by Åke W. Sjøberg, is currently being directed by Stepen J. Tinney, and is housed in the Babylonian section of Penn Museum.
psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/index.html
History: www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?555&soc
Associated Collection:
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Babylonian section
CDLI: "University of Pennsylvania" in the Collection field, museum siglum "CBS"
University of Chicago:
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations - nelc.uchicago.edu/
Faculty listed:
-McGuire Gibson (Mesopotamian Archaeology)
- Walter Farber (Professor of Assyriology)
- Martha T. Roth (Cuneiform Studies)
- Andrea Seri (Cuneiform Studies)
- Matthew W. Stolper (Cuneiform Studies)
- Theo van den Hout (Cuneiform Studies)
- Christopher Woods (Cuneiform Studies)
-Robert D. Biggs (Emeritus Professor of Assyriology)
-Miguel Civil (Emeritus Professor of Sumerology)
Associated Collection:
The Oriental Institute, tablet collection - oi.uchicago.edu/museum/collections/tablet/
CDLI: Enter "Oriental Institute" in the Collection field.
Publications: oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/
Note: Houses Abzu, JNES
Cornell University:
Department of Near Eastern Studies, www.arts.cornell.edu/nes/index.html [Sumerian]
Faculty listed:
-David I. Owen - Bernard and Jane Schapiro Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic Studies,
-Alexandra Kleinerman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Assyriology
Associated Collection:
Cornell University Kroch Library - cdli.ucla.edu/collections/cornell/cornell_lib_intro.html
CDLI: Enter "Cornell" into the Collection field
Publications: See above link "Bibliography"
University of Michigan:
Department of Near Eastern Studies, www.lsa.umich.edu/neareast/ [Sumerian}
Faculty listed:
- Gary Beckman (Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies)
-Piotr Michalowski - George G. Cameron Professor of ancient Near Eastern languages and civilizations, www-personal.umich.edu/~piotrm/cv1.html
- Norman Yoffee (Professor (Emeritus))
Associated Collection:
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey
CDLI: Enter "Kelsey Museum" into the Collection field, museum siglum "KM"
Publications: MVN 09, 160, Snell, Daniel C., 1979; MVN 15, 206, Owen, David I., 1991; AfO 27, 176, Stolper, Matthew W., 1980
University of California, Berkeley:
Department of Near Eastern Studies, neareastern.berkeley.edu/ [Sumerian]
Faculty Ive heard of/read:
-John L. Hayes (Lecturer in Arabic and Comparative Semitics.
Semitic linguistics, Arabic, Akkadian, Sumerian)
- Laurie Pearce (Lecturer in Akkadian. Assyriology, Akkadian, and Cuneiform)
- Francesca Rochberg (Professor of ancient Near Eastern history, history of science with a focus on ancient astronomy and astrology)
-Niek Veldhuis - Associate Professor of Assyriology
-Wolfgang J. Heimpel (Emeritus), Professor of Mesopotamian and Sumerian cultures.
Note: Hosts the Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical texts (DCCLT) cuneiform.ucla.edu:16080/dcclt/
University of California (Los Angeles):
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, www.nelc.ucla.edu/ [Sumerian]
Faculty listed:
- Lance Allred (Research Fellow, Assyriology and Sumerology)
-Robert K. Englund - Professor of Assyriology & Sumerology, www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Englund.htm
Note: Hosts the Cuneiform Digital Library Project (CDLI) cdli.ucla.edu/
Associated Collection:
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/
CDLI: Enter "Berkeley" inter the Collection field, museum siglum "HMA"
Publications: Refer to the above link
Johns Hopkins University:
Department of Near Eastern Studies, www.jhu.edu/neareast/
Faculty listed:
- Jacob Lauinger (Assistant Professor of Assyriology)
- Paul A. Delnero (Assistant Professor of Assyriology)
-Jerrold S. Cooper - W. W. Spence Professor in Semitic Languages, www.jhu.edu/neareast/cooperpublications.htm
Note: Hosts the Digital Hammurabi Project, www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi/
Associated Collection:
The Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Collection arthist.jhu.edu/Archaeology%20Collection/index.html
CDLI: Enter "Hopkins" in the Collection field, museum siglum "JHU"
Publications:
MVN 15, 168, Owen, David I., 1991, also Fs Pettinato 215, JHT 102/103&104, Neumann, Hans, 2004
Harvard University:
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations www.nelc.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do
Faculty listed:
- Peter Machinist (Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages)
- Piotr Steinkeller (Professor of Assyriology)
- Jason A. Ur (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences)
Associated Collection:
The Semitic Museum at Harvard University www.semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu/
CDLI: "Semitic Museum" in the Collection field, museum siglum "SM"
Publications: Sources for the publication Harvard Semitic Studies
Brandeis University:
Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, www.brandeis.edu/departments/nejs/courses/ [Sumerian]
Faculty listed:
-Tzvi Abusch, Ph.D - Assyriology, Religion, Hebrew Bible, Magic and Mythology of the Ancient Near East
see www.brandeis.edu/facguide/ under "A" for Abusch's key publications
Collection: The Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare book Collections originally "The John Frederick Lewis Collection"
CDLI: Enter "Free Library of Philadelphia" in the Collection Field, museum siglum "FLP"
Publications: 1975 The John Frederick Lewis Collection Texts from the Third Millennium in the Free Library of Philadelphia (Materiali per il Vocabolario Neosumerico, Vol. 3). Rome: Unione Accademica Nazionale - Multigrafica Editrice. Pp. 33 + cvi plates (copies) + 19 plates (photos).
2. 1994 The John Frederick Lewis Collection, Vol. 2 (Materiali per il vocabolario neosumerico, Vol. 13) (with Marcel Sigrist and Gordon D. Young). Roma: Unione Academica Nazionale - Multigrafica Editrice, 1984. Transliterations via oasis.leidenuniv.nl/ub/sta/sta.htm [site down]
Collection: Princeton Theological Seminary, Special Collections
CDLI: Enter "Princeton theological Seminary" in the Collection field museum siglum "PTS"
Publications: Sigrist, Marcel. Tablettes du Princeton Theological Seminary: Époque d'Ur III. Philadelphia: Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund, 10, 1990.
Collection: Siegfred H. Horn Museum [HAM] 128.97.154.154/cdli/horn/horn.html
CDLI: See above link or enter "Horn" into the collection list, Museum Siglum AUAM
Publications: www.andrews.edu/ARCHAEOLOGY/pubs/books/assyrian_pub.html
Collection: University of Southern California, Archaeological Research Collection 128.97.154.154/cdli/usc/usc.html
CDLI: Enter "Southern California"into the Collection field, museum siglum "USC"
Publications:
Unpublished?
Collection: the Walters Art Museum, cdli.ucla.edu/collections/wam/wam.html
CDLI: Enter "Walters" in the collection field, museum siglum "WAM"
Publications:
First Impressions 44-45, Collon, Dominique, 1987 [Cylinder Seals]
The Fertile Crescent WAG Dorothy Kent, 1944 [Royal/Monumental]
oi.uchicago.edu/research/lab/map/maps/iraq.html
oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/MesDir.pdf
cuneiform.library.cornell.edu/
oracc.museum.upenn.edu/gkab/
www.nelc.ucla.edu/
www.peust.de/SumerianBibliography.pdf
In the best case scenarios, Ive been able to include some information about an ANE department, its faculty, and associated cuneiform collection these are listed under "Departments and Collections". However If a department doesnt have a tablet collection (or Ive been unable to observe one) it is listed under "Departments". On the other hand, if a tablet Collection is not associated ANE department, Ive mentioned them still lower under "Collections." All correction and allusion to specific blunder will be welcome.
The information below is more or less the result of a personal survey of an obscure field via the www, so it's not imagined to be to be authoritative. The result is a reference guide of sorts, which I hope will be of some use here, I know I'll be using it. There is some significant information redundancy with certain areas of the CDLI wiki, especially in terms of collection information.
***UPDATED APRIL 2012: My listing of faculty follows the data given at each campus website - I have limited my listing to those I identify as being directly involved with Mesopotamian work, archaeological or philological - respectfully saving those involved with i.e. art history and so on to a more comprehensive list. Please contact me with corrections!
Loose Definitions:
Departments: For this list Ive included only those departments in which Ive been able to confirm Sumerian or Akkadian is taught. For example although Princeton has an Near East department, as I havent observed these language as being offered there Ive given no mention of this department.
Collections: I am attempting here to give mention to any Cuneiform tablet collection, regardless of size, affiliation, or research value.
CDLI: Collection names and Museum identifiers with the newer cdli user in mind.
Publications: When present, Ive listed here a few choice reference's to publications treating tablets in a given collection. These references arent inclusive nor are they endorsements, just a sampling.
Notes: Indicate the host of major ANE projects i.e ePSD or DCCLT.
Lastly as this list is just a loose personal survey, if you have something pressing it would be wise to take advantage of the given urls to investigate certain choice details. Ive started with the U.S, still to come the U.K, Germany and others.
The United States
(status- still building)
- - Departments and Collections - -
Yale University:
Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations - www.yale.edu/nelc/ [Sumerian]
Faculty listed:
-Benjamin R. Foster (Curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection)
Eckart Frahm (Director of Graduate Studies Assyriology)
Kathryn Slanski (Assyriology)
-William W. Hallo ( Emeritus Professor)
Associated Collection: www.library.yale.edu/libraries/babylonian.html
The Yale Babylonian Collection, consisting of six groups 1. (YBC) Yale Babylanian Collection, 2. (NBC) Nies Babylonian Collection 3. (MLC) Morgan Library Collection 4. Goucher College Collection (GCC) 5. (NCBT/NCBS) Newell Collections of Babylonian Tablets and of Babylonian Seals 6. (RBC) Rosen Babylonian Collection.
CDLI: With the exception of GCC, all of the above abbreviations will load cdli entries when entered into the "Museum Number" field.
Publications: BIN - Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies, BRM - Babylonian Records in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan, YOS/YOSBT - Yale Oriental Series, YOSR - Yale Oriental Series, Researches, TBC - Texts from the Babylonian Collection, GCCI - Goucher College Cuneiform Inscriptions, YNER - Yale Near Eastern Researches
Pennsylvania University:
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations - www.sas.upenn.edu/nelc [Sumerian]
Faculty listed:
-Grant Frame (Associate Professor of Assyriology in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations)
-Stephen J. Tinney (Clark Research Associate Professor of Assyriology; Associate Curator, Babylonian Section, University Museum (Sumerian language and literature)
-Richard L. Zettler (Department Chair; Associate Professor; Associate Curator-in-Charge, Near Eastern Section of the University Museum)
-Åke W. Sjøberg (Emeritus Clark Research Professor of Assyriology; Emeritus Curator, Tablet Collection, University Museum (Sumerian))
-Erle V. Leichty (Emeritus Clark Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Emeritus Curator, University Museum (Akkadian))
Note: The ePSD an effort begun by Åke W. Sjøberg, is currently being directed by Stepen J. Tinney, and is housed in the Babylonian section of Penn Museum.
psd.museum.upenn.edu/epsd/index.html
History: www.upenn.edu/researchatpenn/article.php?555&soc
Associated Collection:
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Babylonian section
CDLI: "University of Pennsylvania" in the Collection field, museum siglum "CBS"
University of Chicago:
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations - nelc.uchicago.edu/
Faculty listed:
-McGuire Gibson (Mesopotamian Archaeology)
- Walter Farber (Professor of Assyriology)
- Martha T. Roth (Cuneiform Studies)
- Andrea Seri (Cuneiform Studies)
- Matthew W. Stolper (Cuneiform Studies)
- Theo van den Hout (Cuneiform Studies)
- Christopher Woods (Cuneiform Studies)
-Robert D. Biggs (Emeritus Professor of Assyriology)
-Miguel Civil (Emeritus Professor of Sumerology)
Associated Collection:
The Oriental Institute, tablet collection - oi.uchicago.edu/museum/collections/tablet/
CDLI: Enter "Oriental Institute" in the Collection field.
Publications: oi.uchicago.edu/research/pubs/
Note: Houses Abzu, JNES
Cornell University:
Department of Near Eastern Studies, www.arts.cornell.edu/nes/index.html [Sumerian]
Faculty listed:
-David I. Owen - Bernard and Jane Schapiro Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic Studies,
-Alexandra Kleinerman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Assyriology
Associated Collection:
Cornell University Kroch Library - cdli.ucla.edu/collections/cornell/cornell_lib_intro.html
CDLI: Enter "Cornell" into the Collection field
Publications: See above link "Bibliography"
University of Michigan:
Department of Near Eastern Studies, www.lsa.umich.edu/neareast/ [Sumerian}
Faculty listed:
- Gary Beckman (Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies)
-Piotr Michalowski - George G. Cameron Professor of ancient Near Eastern languages and civilizations, www-personal.umich.edu/~piotrm/cv1.html
- Norman Yoffee (Professor (Emeritus))
Associated Collection:
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey
CDLI: Enter "Kelsey Museum" into the Collection field, museum siglum "KM"
Publications: MVN 09, 160, Snell, Daniel C., 1979; MVN 15, 206, Owen, David I., 1991; AfO 27, 176, Stolper, Matthew W., 1980
University of California, Berkeley:
Department of Near Eastern Studies, neareastern.berkeley.edu/ [Sumerian]
Faculty Ive heard of/read:
-John L. Hayes (Lecturer in Arabic and Comparative Semitics.
Semitic linguistics, Arabic, Akkadian, Sumerian)
- Laurie Pearce (Lecturer in Akkadian. Assyriology, Akkadian, and Cuneiform)
- Francesca Rochberg (Professor of ancient Near Eastern history, history of science with a focus on ancient astronomy and astrology)
-Niek Veldhuis - Associate Professor of Assyriology
-Wolfgang J. Heimpel (Emeritus), Professor of Mesopotamian and Sumerian cultures.
Note: Hosts the Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical texts (DCCLT) cuneiform.ucla.edu:16080/dcclt/
University of California (Los Angeles):
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, www.nelc.ucla.edu/ [Sumerian]
Faculty listed:
- Lance Allred (Research Fellow, Assyriology and Sumerology)
-Robert K. Englund - Professor of Assyriology & Sumerology, www.nelc.ucla.edu/Faculty/Englund.htm
Note: Hosts the Cuneiform Digital Library Project (CDLI) cdli.ucla.edu/
Associated Collection:
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/
CDLI: Enter "Berkeley" inter the Collection field, museum siglum "HMA"
Publications: Refer to the above link
Johns Hopkins University:
Department of Near Eastern Studies, www.jhu.edu/neareast/
Faculty listed:
- Jacob Lauinger (Assistant Professor of Assyriology)
- Paul A. Delnero (Assistant Professor of Assyriology)
-Jerrold S. Cooper - W. W. Spence Professor in Semitic Languages, www.jhu.edu/neareast/cooperpublications.htm
Note: Hosts the Digital Hammurabi Project, www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi/
Associated Collection:
The Johns Hopkins University Archaeological Collection arthist.jhu.edu/Archaeology%20Collection/index.html
CDLI: Enter "Hopkins" in the Collection field, museum siglum "JHU"
Publications:
MVN 15, 168, Owen, David I., 1991, also Fs Pettinato 215, JHT 102/103&104, Neumann, Hans, 2004
Harvard University:
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations www.nelc.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do
Faculty listed:
- Peter Machinist (Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages)
- Piotr Steinkeller (Professor of Assyriology)
- Jason A. Ur (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences)
Associated Collection:
The Semitic Museum at Harvard University www.semiticmuseum.fas.harvard.edu/
CDLI: "Semitic Museum" in the Collection field, museum siglum "SM"
Publications: Sources for the publication Harvard Semitic Studies
Departments
:Brandeis University:
Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, www.brandeis.edu/departments/nejs/courses/ [Sumerian]
Faculty listed:
-Tzvi Abusch, Ph.D - Assyriology, Religion, Hebrew Bible, Magic and Mythology of the Ancient Near East
see www.brandeis.edu/facguide/ under "A" for Abusch's key publications
Collections
:Collection: The Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare book Collections originally "The John Frederick Lewis Collection"
CDLI: Enter "Free Library of Philadelphia" in the Collection Field, museum siglum "FLP"
Publications: 1975 The John Frederick Lewis Collection Texts from the Third Millennium in the Free Library of Philadelphia (Materiali per il Vocabolario Neosumerico, Vol. 3). Rome: Unione Accademica Nazionale - Multigrafica Editrice. Pp. 33 + cvi plates (copies) + 19 plates (photos).
2. 1994 The John Frederick Lewis Collection, Vol. 2 (Materiali per il vocabolario neosumerico, Vol. 13) (with Marcel Sigrist and Gordon D. Young). Roma: Unione Academica Nazionale - Multigrafica Editrice, 1984. Transliterations via oasis.leidenuniv.nl/ub/sta/sta.htm [site down]
Collection: Princeton Theological Seminary, Special Collections
CDLI: Enter "Princeton theological Seminary" in the Collection field museum siglum "PTS"
Publications: Sigrist, Marcel. Tablettes du Princeton Theological Seminary: Époque d'Ur III. Philadelphia: Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund, 10, 1990.
Collection: Siegfred H. Horn Museum [HAM] 128.97.154.154/cdli/horn/horn.html
CDLI: See above link or enter "Horn" into the collection list, Museum Siglum AUAM
Publications: www.andrews.edu/ARCHAEOLOGY/pubs/books/assyrian_pub.html
Collection: University of Southern California, Archaeological Research Collection 128.97.154.154/cdli/usc/usc.html
CDLI: Enter "Southern California"into the Collection field, museum siglum "USC"
Publications:
Unpublished?
Collection: the Walters Art Museum, cdli.ucla.edu/collections/wam/wam.html
CDLI: Enter "Walters" in the collection field, museum siglum "WAM"
Publications:
First Impressions 44-45, Collon, Dominique, 1987 [Cylinder Seals]
The Fertile Crescent WAG Dorothy Kent, 1944 [Royal/Monumental]
oi.uchicago.edu/research/lab/map/maps/iraq.html
oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/MesDir.pdf
cuneiform.library.cornell.edu/
oracc.museum.upenn.edu/gkab/
www.nelc.ucla.edu/
www.peust.de/SumerianBibliography.pdf
*hugs*