Showing posts with label British Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British Museum. Show all posts

Monday, June 15, 2020

Open access journal: Bronze Age Review

[First posted in AWOL 19 February 2009. Updated 15 June 2020 (new URLs0]

Bronze Age Review

The international journal of research into the archaeology of the British and European Bronze Age

Bronze Age Review is a free to access, peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to furthering the understanding of the period about 2500 BC - 800 BC in Britain and neighbouring regions.
It is a free and accessible annual outlet for new discoveries and research, publishing interim excavation reports, reviews, databases and articles to provide an invaluable resource for this period.

Volume 1

Bronze Age Review For our first issue, we’ve brought together a series of discussion articles written by senior Bronze Age scholars debating the research that they would like to see being conducted in Britain.

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Open Access Series: Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum (CT)

[First posted in AWOL 30 June 2014, updated 17 November 2019]

Fifty-eight volumes and the index to volumes 1-50 of the series Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum (CT) were made available online as a part of ETANA Core Texts. There is also a complete list of ETANA Core Texts in AWOL.

Friday, December 25, 2015

The Notebooks of W.G. Lambert Online

 Image of part of Lambert Folio 9034, the first page of Notebook 2
W. G. Lambert (1926-2011) was an Assyriologist who spent much of his research time transliterating and copying cuneiform tablets in museums, especially the British Museum. His Nachlass included eight notebooks filled with handwritten transliterations of Babylonian and Assyrian texts. The notebooks contain more than five thousand transliterations, spread over nearly fifteen hundred pages. They are an astonishing record of sustained first-hand engagement with cuneiform tablets.
The pages of these eight notebooks have been numbered, scanned and indexed by Lambert's academic executor. They are placed online at ORACC as an open-access resource. It should be borne in mind that the transliterations are first drafts. Lambert invited a few colleagues to browse his notebooks during his lifetime but he did not write them for widespread distribution. The transliterations are therefore not to be taken as definitive, nor should any inaccuracies therein be held against their author.

Lambert's notebooks are made available here so that present and future scholars can use them to advantage in their own research. It is hoped that users of the notebooks will be encouraged by his example not to rely unhesitatingly on the work of a colleague but to visit museums and read cuneiform tablets at first hand. Should it be necessary nevertheless to quote the notebooks' contents, the recommended style is "Lambert Folio" followed by page number, e.g. K 9208 (Lambert Folio 9578).

Downloadable Files

Notebook 1 part 1: Lambert Folios 8897-8956 Notebook 1 part 2: Lambert Folios 8957-9029 Notebook 2: Lambert Folios 9034-9124 Notebook 3: Lambert Folios 9128-9379 Notebook 4: Lambert Folios 9393-9545 Notebook 5 part 1: Lambert Folios 9546-9676 Notebook 5 part 2: Lambert Folios 9677-9804 Notebook 6 part 1: Lambert Folios 9807-9939 Notebook 6 part 2: Lambert Folios 9940-10089 Notebook 7 part 1: Lambert Folios 10090-10208 Notebook 7 part 2: Lambert Folios 10209-10330 Berlin notebook: Lambert Folios 18381-18401 Index: Lambert Notebook Index

Thursday, November 12, 2015

The British Museum at Google Cultural Institute

The British Museum at Google Cultural Institute
Discover our interactive experience The Museum of the World
The British Museum’s remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. Over 6 million visitors every year experience the collection, including world-famous objects such as the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, and Egyptian mummies
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

Ashurbanipal Library Project

Ashurbanipal Library Project
 What is the Library?, The Life of the Library, the corpus catalogue
The Library that once belonged to Ashurbanipal, King of Assyria (668-c. 630 BC), is one of most remarkable and fascinating archaeological discoveries ever made. More than 30,000 clay tablets bearing cuneiform inscriptions were excavated by the British Museum between the 1850's and 1930's at the site of the imperial capital, Nineveh. In its day it had been the biggest and most wide-ranging collection of texts yet assembled. Its discovery threw wide open the doors to our understanding of ancient Mesopotamia.  

Saturday, August 31, 2013

British Museum Online Research Catalogues

British Museum Online Research Catalogues
Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt

Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt

Archaeological finds made in late 19th and early 20th century excavations at the site of Naukratis that today are dispersed in museums worldwide.
Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt catalogue 
Asante Gold Regalia

Asante Gold Regalia in the British Museum collection

220 items of gold regalia from the West African state of Asante in modern-day Ghana.
Asante Gold Regalia catalogue 
The Ramesseum Papyri

The Ramesseum Papyri

Surviving papyri from a 13th Dynasty tomb at Luxor later covered by the funerary temple of Ramses II, known as the Ramesseum.
Ramesseum Papyri catalogue 
Ancient Cyprus at the British Museum

Ancient Cyprus at the British Museum

Objects found during 19th century excavations in a growing catalogue of the Museum's entire collection from the island.
Ancient Cyprus catalogue 
Paper money of England and Wales

Paper money of England and Wales

Banknotes, cheques and other paper money issued in England and Wales at the British Museum.
Paper Money catalogue 
Roman Republican Coins

Roman Republican Coins

More than 12,000 coins minted during the Roman Republican period.
Roman Republican Coins catalogue 
Rembrandt and his School

Rembrandt and his School

The British Museum collection of 392 drawings by Rembrandt and artists of his school.
Drawings by Rembrandt and his School catalogue 
Russian Icons in the British Museum

Russian Icons in the British Museum

A collection of 72 Russian icons dating from the fifteenth through to the early twentieth century.
Russian Icons catalogue