Conversations are thoughts and interactions I have in public or invited spaces.
These sorts of things are easy to misplace, so I made a space for them.
Archival process is a work in progress.
Culture:
They wrote on clay (not stone)
Sumerian and Akkadian identity
Ilī-wēdêku, Mr. My-God-I-am-alone
Did ancient cities have street names?
Buzû Street, Ur
The Lions of Mari
Economy:
Making Old Babylonian Cylinder Seals
The Mice-Catching Industry
Institutions:
Old Babylonian Legal Process: É-Dublamah
On privileged classes, the kidinnū
Divine Activities
Divine Signatures
Ur:
Mapping Ur
Sir Leonard Woolley and the issue of imperialism
The first published Old Babylonian tablet
Tale of the Tell Sifr tablets
Ea-nāṣir
The famed complaint letter: UET 5, 81
Everything we know about Ea-nāṣir
Who was Nanni?
Nippur:
ISAC's Excavation at Nippur
The Temples of Nippur
Five Livestock Receipts
Three Loans from Gods
800 new photographs of tablets at the Iraq Museum
Serendipitous Cuneiform: an ongoing series
Is Kishk kisimmu?
University of Cambridge's Poor Man of Nippur (a film in Akkadian)
Presentation Review: The Flood as Apocalypse for "Stories from the End of the World"