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  2. Samuel Noah Kramer - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Noah Kramer (September 28, 1897 – November 26, 1990) was one of the world's leading Assyriologists, an expert in Sumerian history and Sumerian language. After high school, he attended Temple University , before Dropsie University and the University of Pennsylvania , all in Philadelphia .

  3. Code of Ur-Nammu - Wikipedia

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    The first recension of the code (Ni 3191), an Old Babylonian period copy in two fragments found at Nippur, in what is now Iraq, was translated by Samuel Noah Kramer in 1952. [2] These fragments are held at the Istanbul Archaeology Museums. Owing to its partial preservation, only the long prologue and five of the laws were discernible. [3]

  4. List of Assyriologists - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Noah Kramer (Russian-American, 1897–1990), considered an expert in Sumerian history and language, he studied the Lament for Ur and other texts. Franz Xaver Kugler (German, 1862–1929), mathematician who studied cuneiform tablets and Babylonian astronomy, and worked out the Babylonian theories on the Moon and planets.

  5. Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta - Wikipedia

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    Because it gives a Sumerian account of the "confusion of tongues", and also involves Enmerkar constructing temples at Eridu and Uruk, it has, since the time of Samuel Kramer, [1] been compared with the Tower of Babel narrative in the Book of Genesis.

  6. Bill Kramer (executive) - Wikipedia

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    William Samuel Kramer II [1] is the Chief Executive Officer of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Early life and education

  7. Diane Wolkstein - Wikipedia

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    She collaborated with the Assyriologist Samuel Noah Kramer to translate Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, the story of Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of fertility, love and war. [3] The Library of Congress houses an archive of Wolkstein's photographs, performance events and productions, interviews and other materials. [2] [3]

  8. Samuel Kraemer - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Kraemer (1857–1937) was a rancher, farmer, and businessman who is credited with much of the development of Anaheim, California during the 1920s. [ 1 ] Later known as the Kraemer Building, the American Savings Bank of Anaheim was constructed by Kraemer in 1923 from a design by the architect M. Eugene Durfee .

  9. Death of Gilgamesh - Wikipedia

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    The Death of Gilgamesh is a Sumerian poem about the death of the legendary hero Gilgamesh, best known in later sources from Epic of Gilgamesh.The text was reconstructed by Samuel Noah Kramer, who produced a critical edition and translation of the text in 1944.