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The collection holds Babylonian clay tablet YBC 7289 (c. 1800–1600 BC). [1] The tablet displays an approximation of the square root of 2 . Comprising some 45,000 items, the Yale Babylonian Collection is an independent branch of the Yale University Library housed on the Yale University campus in Sterling Memorial Library at New Haven ...
the Babylonian Collection at Yale University. Tablets from the Yale Babylonian Collection have been published by G.M. Beckman in the Catalogue of the YBC [2] and by Oded Tammuz [3] [4] [5] of Ben Gurion University many dated to the reign of Samsuiluna, the Böhl Collection at The Netherlands Institute for the Near East [6] [7] at Leiden University,
Nawal Nasrallah is a U.S.-based Iraqi food writer, food historian, English literature scholar, and translator from Arabic into English. [1] She is best known for her cookbook featuring Iraqi cuisine, entitled Delights from the Garden of Eden, and for editions of medieval Arabic cookbooks, including Annals of the Caliphs’ Kitchens, an annotated translation of the tenth-century, Abbasid-era ...
Ettalene Mears Grice (March 25, 1887 – December 4, 1927) was an American educator, curator, and scholar of ancient Assyria and Babylonia. In 1917, she was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in Assyriology at Yale University, and was acting curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection from 1925 to 1926.
This is a list of ancient dishes, prepared foods and beverages that have been recorded as originating in ancient history. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with Sumerian cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing from the protoliterate period around 3,000 to 2,900 years BCE.
The Al-Yahudu Tablets provide among the first Babylonian transcriptions of Israelite names. Earlier, the Assyrians, whom the Babylonians had usurped, had made several inscriptions which featured names of Israelite or Judahite provenance, including Omri , [ 9 ] Hezekiah , [ 10 ] Pekah and Hoshea , [ 11 ] Jehoiachin , [ 12 ] and Yahu-Bihdi . [ 13 ]
In 1910, Clay became the William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale University. [2] In 1909, J. Pierpont Morgan funded the founding of the Yale Babylonian Collection at Yale University. Clay served as its first curator, a position which he held until his death in 1925.
Babylonian Temple List [p 13] Birds, archaic word-list; Canonical Temple List, a theological list extant from the Library of Ashurbanipal [p 13] Cattle, archaic word-list; Cities/god list, early dynastic tablet found in single exemplar from Ur with two simple lists [13]: 390 Dimmir = dingir = ilum, Emesal vocabulary, an Assyrian list [MSL IV [p ...