About Jacob Lebovitch Dahl
Jacob L. Dahl is a specialist of the pre-Classical cultures and languages of the Near East.
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I am a specialist of the pre-Classical cultures and languages of the Near East. I have written on early Babylonian socio-economic history, early Near Eastern writing systems, and Sumerian literature. I work on the decipherment of proto-Elamite, the last undeciphered writing system from the ancient Near East with a substantial number of sources (more than 1600 tablets divided between the Louvre Museum and the National Museum of Iran). Initially inspired and influenced by archaic cuneiform from Mesopotamia, proto-Elamite was a very short-lived writing system (ca. 3100 - 2900 BC) used across much of what today constitute the Islamic Republic of Iran. As a co-PI of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative I seek to document and safeguard Mesopotamia’s contribution to our shared world history by making its ancient records available freely online.
Source: orinst.ox.ac.uk on 04/18/2020
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Core CDLI:Wiki data
| Name | Dahl, Jacob L. |
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| CDLI:Wiki | CDLI: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative | |
| Website | Website | |
| 2007 | 1998 | |
| Contributor | Contributor | |
| More info | More info |
Authored works by Jacob Lebovitch Dahl
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Role: Editor
Role: Translator
Role: Contributor
CDLI:Wiki data for Jacob Lebovitch Dahl
Jacob Lebovitch Dahl has a dedicated entry page on CDLI:Wiki with the name 'Dahl, Jacob L..' Included data from this source may provide the person's name, date of birth, date of death, major works, obituaries, and compiler remarks.
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CDLI:Wiki Est. 2007The CDLI:Wiki is an extension of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) project. It provides useful information about cuneiform studies: lists of artifacts, scholar biographies, and a list of abbreviations related to Assyriology.
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| CDLI:Wiki ID | cdli:jacob_l_dahl |
Cuneiformist profile
| Name | Dahl, Jacob L. |
| Remarks | Jacob Dahl is an editor of the cdli:wiki, and associate professor of assyriology at the University of Oxford. |
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Jacob Dahl is an editor of the cdli:wiki, and associate professor of assyriology at the University of Oxford.
[[http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/staff/eanes/jdahl.html|institutional homepage]]
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| Retrieval date | Apr. 19, 2020 |
| Copyright | CDLI:Wiki @ UCLA |
Bibliography
Renn, Jürgen, Jacob L. Dahl, et al. "CDLI: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative." Los Angeles, CA: The University of California, Los Angeles. Accessed June 13, 2019. https://cdli.ucla.edu.
Renn, Jürgen, Jacob L. Dahl, et al. "CDLI:Wiki." Los Angeles, CA: The University of California, Los Angeles. Accessed June 13, 2019. http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki.
