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
- 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)








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(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)
h 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