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• 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.
• 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…
• 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)