280:(2021, by Eisenbrauns). The volume presents updated English editions with introductory remarks and commentary of 130 royal inscriptions of Sargon II, as well as 11 inscriptions of the royal family and his officials and 10 uncertain inscriptions. These texts are inscribed on various media — including stone wall slabs from his palace, paving slabs, colossi, steles, prisms, and cylinders, among others — originating from all across the ancient Near Eastern world.
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Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations (formerly the Department of Near Eastern Studies) at the University of Toronto. During this time, he contributed to the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project, by serving as
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As a faculty member for many years at the
University of Toronto, Grant Frame contributed to the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project, for as assistant director under the leadership of Professor A. Kirk Grayson. Grayson retired in 2000 and ceded responsibility to Frame. Shifting the
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in order to produce editions in printed volumes and in a fully searchable and indexed online format. The translations cover thousands of texts that survive on clay tablets and cylinders, and in inscriptions on walls, objects, and other materials, from the region corresponding to what is now Iraq,
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and other granting agencies, to translate the royal inscriptions of the rulers of
Assyria from 744 to 609 BC. The RINAP project marks the continuation of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia (RIM) project, which Frame's teacher and mentor,
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focus to examine inscriptions to the Neo-Assyrian period, Frame established the Royal
Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, or RINAP, and assembled a team to translate all known royal inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian kings from the era of
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in southern Iraq, including in the midst of a major rebellion. This private archive from
Babylonia consists of land sale documents, loans with property given as security, and a legal proceeding. The tablets Frame studied come from the
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before earning a B.A. degree in Near
Eastern Studies, with honors, from the University of Toronto. He earned an M.A. degree in Assyriology from the University of Toronto as well. He then pursued his PhD at the
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periods. Since 2008, he has served as
Director and Editor-in-Chief of The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP), an international research project funded by the U.S. government's
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in 627, a period that witnessed the height of the Neo-Assyrian empire as well as the beginning of the collapse of the
Assyrian Empire in Assyria and of the shift of power to Babylonia.
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The archive of Mušēzib-Marduk, son of
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The Archive of Mušēzib-Marduk, Son of Kiribtu and Descendant of Sîn-nāṣir: A Landowner and Property Developer at Uruk in the Seventh Century BC
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Section which contains approximately 30,000 cuneiform clay tablets. From 2017 to 2020 he directed the Center for Ancient Studies at Penn.
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Magic in the Ancient World. An Exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology April 16, 2016 – April 30, 2017
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The Archive of Mušēzib-Marduk, Son of Kiribtu and Descendant of Sîn-nāṣir: A Landowner and Property Developer at Uruk in the Seventh Century BC
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The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC), and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 3
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The Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten published Grant Frame's dissertation as a book in 1992 and issued a second edition in 2007.
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As part of the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period project (see below), Frame authored the second volume of the series entitled,
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Syria, Iran, and Turkey. So far several volumes of translations from the RINAP project have appeared in print from the publisher
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From the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea: Studies on the History of Assyria and Babylonia in Honour of A.K. Grayson
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Rulers of Babylonia: From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157–612 BC),
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