Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Research Fellows

Graham Cunningham

Graham Cunningham

Research Fellow, The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia: A Diachronic Analysis of Four Scholarly Libraries

Research interests: Mesopotamian intellectual history, languages and culture

Principal publications

Books

  • With Jarle Ebeling (eds.), Analysing Literary Sumerian: Corpus-based Approaches. London: Equinox (2007).
  • With Jeremy Black, Eleanor Robson, and Gábor Zólyomi, The Literature of Ancient Sumer. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2004; paperback 2006).
  • Religion and Magic: Approaches and Theories. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (1999).
  • Research assistant, A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (1999).
  • 'Deliver me from evil': Mesopotamian Incantations 2500-1500 BC (Studia Pohl SM 17). Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute (1997).

Websites

Articles

  • 'Sumerian religion', in Michele Salzman and Marvin A. Sweeney (eds.), Cambridge History of Ancient Religions. New York: Cambridge University Press (in press).
  • 'Sumerian word classes reconsidered', in Heather D. Baker, Eleanor Robson and Gábor Zólyomi (eds.), Your Praise is Sweet: A Memorial Volume for Jeremy Black from Students, Colleagues and Friends. Oxford: Griffith Institute (in press).
  • 'Hero and villain: analyses of Sargon and Ur-Zababa', in Fredrik Hagen et al. (eds.), Literary-Linguistic Approaches to Narrative: the Ancient Near East (including Egypt), and Neighbouring Regions. Leuven: Peeters (in press).
  • 'Identifying Sumerian compound nouns', in Robert D. Biggs, Jennie Myers and Martha T. Roth (eds.), Proceedings of the 51st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, University of Chicago, 2005 (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 62), 17-23. Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (2008).
  • 'In the company of ni2 "self" and "fear(someness)"', in Jarle Ebeling and Graham Cunningham (eds.), Analysing Literary Sumerian: Corpus-based Approaches, 70-104. London: Equinox (2007).
  • 'A catalogue of Sumerian literature (based on Miguel Civil's catalogue of Sumerian literature)', in Jarle Ebeling and Graham Cunningham (eds.), Analysing Literary Sumerian: Corpus-based Approaches, 351-411. London: Equinox (2007).
  • 'Sumerian', in Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics vol. 12, 271-274. Oxford: Elsevier (2006).
  • 'Summoning the sacred in Sumerian incantations', Studi epigrafici e linguistici sul Vicino Oriente antico 15, 41-48 (1998).

Principal conference papers

  • 'Introducing the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature', The British Epigraphy Society Autumn Colloquium. Oxford (November 2005).
  • 'Sumerian lemmatisation', Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. Chicago (July 2005).
  • With Jarle Ebeling, 'Lemmatising the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature', Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues Workshop. Paris (May 2005).
  • 'Lemmatising Sumerian: problems and possibilities', The British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology Conference. Oxford (January 2005).
  • 'The syntax of Sumerian multiword verbs', Syntax of the World's Languages Conference. Leipzig (August 2004).