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Cornell University cuneiform project records

 Collection
Identifier: 14-30-4292

Scope and content

Collection documents work done as part of the project and includes digital images and information on cuneiform tablets. Also correspondence and materials relating to cuneiform tablet research and administrative issues surrounding collections including repatriation.

Dates

  • 2000-2018.

Creator

Language of Material

In English.

Restrictions on Access

Collection is currently closed for research.

Biographical / Historical

The Cornell University cuneiform project documented, with images and text, approximately 10,000 cuneiform tablets through the Jonathan and Jeannette Rosen Ancient Near Eastern Studies Seminar and Tablet Conservation Laboratory. Work on the tablets was curated by David I. Owen, the Bernard and Jane Schapiro Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Emeritus in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. Project work provided access, scholarship, and publications relating to Sumerian and Babylonian language tablets from circa 3350 BCE through the 5th century BCE. The Cornell University Cuneiform Library website is one result of the project.

Extent

3.5 terabytes. (3.5 terabytes.)

Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)