http://cdli.ucla.edu/wiki/ Wed, 16 May 2012 11:34:10 -0700 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki http://cdli.ucla.edu/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico http://cdli.ucla.edu/wiki/ http://cdli.ucla.edu/wiki/doku.php/alster_bendt Alster, Bendt Name Alster, Bendt Dates 26 July 1946 - 30 April 2012 Birthplace Denmark Specialization Sumerology, Assyriology Major works Dumuzi's dream. Aspects of oral poetry in a Sumerian myth. Copenhagen: 1972; Proverbs of Ancient Sumer: The World's Earliest Proverb Collections. Bethesda, MD: 1997; Wisdom of Ancient Sumer. Bethesda, Md: 2005. Jacob Dahl Tue, 08 May 2012 15:38:15 -0700 http://cdli.ucla.edu/wiki/doku.php/proto-elamite Proto-Elamite is the last un-deciphered writing system from the Ancient Near East with a substantial number of sources (more than 1600 published texts). It was used for a relatively short period around 3000 BC across what is today Iran. Proto-Elamite is a derived writing system originating from the Uruk invention of writing in southern Mesopotamia during the middle of the 4th millennium BC. Scribes in Susa in southwestern Iran took over a majority of the numerical signs as well as many of the nu… Kathryn Kelley Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:47:59 -0700 http://cdli.ucla.edu/wiki/doku.php/lambert_wilfred_g Name Lambert, Wilfred G. Dates 26 February 1926 - 9 November 2011 Birthplace Birmingham, UK Specialization Assyriology Major works Babylonian Wisdom Literature 1960; Ancient Near Eastern seals in Birmingham Collections (1966); Atra-Hasis: The Babylonian Story of the Flood, with A. R. Millard, and Miguel Civil (Oxford 1969); Babylonian Oracle Questions (2007) Robert K. Englund Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:56:37 -0700 http://cdli.ucla.edu/wiki/doku.php/damerow_peter Name Damerow, Peter Dates 20 December 1939 - 20 November 2011 Birthplace Berlin, Germany Specialization History of Science, Assyriology Major works Abstraction and Representation: Essays on the cultural evolution of thinking, Kluwer 1995; Changing Views on Ancient Near Eastern Mathematics, Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient vol. 19, Dietrich Reimer 2001 (with Jens Høyrup); Informationsverarbeitung vor 5000 Jahren: Frühe Schrift und Techniken der Wirtschaftsverwaltung im alten Vorder… Robert K. Englund Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:35:52 -0700