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ANE Departments and
Collections inThe United Kingdom
-ANE Departments
and Collections-
Oxford University
Faculty of Oriental
Studies (Near Eastern Studies Programme)
Faculty I've heard of/read: -Graham
Cunningham- Research Officer
- Stephanie
Dalley - Shillito Fellow in Assyriology
-Jarle
Ebeling- Research Officer
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Marc Van De Mieroop - Professor of Assyriology
Notes: Students introduction available here http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/nme/cunei-mphil.pdf
Hosts the Electrontic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/
and The Diachronic Corpus of Sumerian Literature
http://dcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/
Associated Colletion: the Ashmolean
Museum of Art and Archaeology, http://cdli.ucla.edu/collections/ashmolean/ashmolean.html
CDLI: Enter "Ashmolean" in the Collections field, mueum siglum "ashm",
"Bod S" (Bodleian Collection, housed with the Ashmolean).
Publications: AAICAB, Kish , http://www.ashmolean.museum/departments/antiquities/research/pubcats/
University of London
The School of Oriental
and African Studies -SOAS- (Department of the Languages and Cultures of
Near and Middle East)
Faculty I've heard of: - Andrew
George - Professor of Babylonian
Farouk
N H Al-Rawi- Professorial Research Associate
Associated Collection: The British
Museum: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/the_museum/departments/me/history_of_the_collection.aspx
CDLI: Enter "British Museum" in the Collections field, museum siglem "BM"
Publicantions: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/the_museum/departments/me/research/reports_and_publications.aspx
Notes: The Curator here is Irving
Finkel
The University of Birmingham
Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity
(Cuneirform and Ancient Near Eastern Studies Mphil)
Faculty Ive heard of/read: - Alasdair
Livingstone- Reader in Assyriology,
Notes: Hosts the Cuneiform Digital Palaeography
Project, http://www.cdp.bham.ac.uk/index.htm
Associated Collection: Birmingham
Museums and Art Gallery
CDLI: Enter "Birmingham" into the Collections field
Publications: P.J. Watson, Catalogue of cuneiform tablets in Birmingham
City Museum
The University of Cambridge
Department of Asian & Middle Eastern
Studies (Assyriology)
Faculty Ive heard of/read: - Nicolas
Postgate- Professor of Assyriology
- Martin Worthington- Phd in Assyriology
Notes: Produces BSA (Bulletin on Sumerian
Agriculture)
Associated Collection: University
of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
CDLI: Museum siglum “IES”
Publications: TJA - E. Szlechter, Tablettes juridiques et administratives
de la IIIe dynastie d’Ur et de la Ire Dynastie de Babylone ... (Paris
1963)
Fitzwilliam Museum - Cambridge, http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opac/search/searchant.html
(search antiquities field for “cuneiform”)
CDLI: Enter “Fitzwilliam” into the collections field, museum siglum “FM”
Publications: TJA - E. Szlechter, Tablettes juridiques et administratives
de la IIIe dynastie d’Ur et de la Ire Dynastie de Babylone ... (Paris
1963)
-Departments-
(No associated collections found)
The University College, London
Department
of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Faculty Ive heard of/read: - Markham
J. Geller - Jewish Chronicle Professor of Jewish Studies
Notes: Although not an ANE department, it appears Geller does teach Sumerian
from the ULC
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/studentres/syllabi.php
-Collections-
(associated departments not identified yet)
The Schoyen Collection (Oslo/London)
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http://www.schoyencollection.com/
(refer to each category of manuscript, Sumerian listed at top)
CDLI: Schoyen tablets catalgoued at cdli for example MS 3283, appear to
be registered as “Private collection, anonymous”
Publications: According to the website, A. George (possible others) are
in the process of publishing the cuneiform there http://www.schoyencollection.com/infopub.htm
John Rylands Library
at the University of Manchester,http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/specialcollections/collections/guide/atoz/sumerianms/
CDLI: Enter "Rylands" into the collection field, Museum siglum "JRL"
Publications: T. Fish, Catalogue of the Sumerian Tablets in the John Rylands
Library (others availbe at above url)
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
http://www.boltonmuseums.org.uk/about/collections-overview/archaeology
CDLI: N/A
Notes: The above url states “Also from Iraq a nice small group of engraved
cylinder seals and cuneiform tablets came with the gift of the Ragdale
collection “
University of Durham Oriental Museum
http://www.dur.ac.uk/oriental.museum/collections/islamic/
(vague)
CDLI: Museum Siglum “DUROM”
Egypt Centre at the University of Wales, Swansea
CDLI: N/A
Notes: Seems to be a tiny collection the only Sumerian Cuneiform would
seem to be:
http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/egypt.asp?page=item&itemId=W951
http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/egypt.asp?page=item&itemId=W950
Hunterian Museum Glasgow
http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/
Cdli: N/A
notes: Tiny collection, search collections for “cuneiform”
Merseyside County Museums, Liverpool
CDLI: Enter “Meseryside” in to the collections field, museum siglum “liv”
Publications: MCS 4-8, Orient 16
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