I am an Assyriologist, a specialist in the cuneiform languages of ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). My specialty is the Sumerian language, one of the world's oldest known languages. My other specialties include digital humanities, artifact documentation and curation, primary source editing, philology, and academic research and publishing. My professional background has engendered a keen eye for detail and a passion for taking no evidentiary source or line of inquiry for granted. My dissertation focused on the conception of animals in the Sumerian language, and I have published a book about a list of hundreds of different gods that was studied in the ancient city of Nippur around 1800 B.C.E. I have a primary interest in clay cuneiform tablets as physical artifacts, and have devoted a great deal of time to reconstructing and documenting them. My second book was devoted to the identification of tablet fragments belonging to Sumerian literary compositions in the collection of the University Museum in Philadelphia, and my subsequent publications have focused on the recovery of new Sumerian compositions. As an artist, I create reproductions of ancient clay tablets using a best approximation of ancient techniques (for sale at www.ancienttextmoderntablet.com). In the past decade I have worked on digital cuneiform textual corpus projects for the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania, including the lexical texts from the famous royal library of King Ashurbanipal of Assyria (668-627 B.C.E.) and the Sumerian literary texts from the city of Ur (which is mentioned in the Bible).

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