Research Update (2025-2026) 
Verbal Substantives in Proto-Semitic 
Summer 2025, NACAL 48, and Comps 
An Academic Pilgrimage: Germany Summer 2025 
Semester in Review: Spring 2025 at JHU 
A royal brick inscription of Gudea (E3/1.1.7.62; BM No. 90289)
Introduction This post presents my translation of a royal brick inscription of Gudea wherein he documents his achievement of the construction of Ningišzida’s E-girsu temple.... Read More
A royal brick inscription of Gudea (E3/1.1.7.64)
Introduction This post presents my translation of a royal brick inscription of Gudea wherein he documents his achievement of the construction of the temple of... Read More
A royal brick inscription of Ur-Nammu (E3/2.1.1.4; BM No. 90009)
Introduction This post presents my translation of a royal brick inscription of Ur-Nammu wherein he documents his achievement of the construction of the temple of... Read More
A royal clay votive cone inscription of Gudea (E3/1.1.7.8; P232347)
Introduction This post presents my translation of a royal inscription of Gudea inscribed on a clay cone wherein he documents the achievement of his construction... Read More
A royal brick inscription of Ur-Nammu (E3/2.1.1.33; BM No. 90015)
Introduction This post presents my translation of a royal brick inscription of Ur-Nammu wherein he documents the achievement of his construction of the temple of... Read More
Learn to Read Ancient Aramaic: E. Cook (2022), Chapter One, “Introduction: Aramaic and Its Dialects”
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Learn to Read Ancient Aramaic: E. Cook (2022), Chapter One, “Introduction: Aramaic and Its Dialects”
Introduction This post is the first in a series that provides a resource to learn or review the contents of Edward M. Cook’s Biblical Aramaic... Read More
Bir-Hadad Stele (=Melqart Stele; ca. 850-775 BCE; AB B.1.1 = KAI 201)
Description The Bir-Hadad Stele (also known as the Melqart Stele; AB B.1.1 = KAI 201) is a late 9th or early 8th cent. BCE basalt... Read More
Learn to Read Ancient Akkadian: R. Caplice (2002), Prolegomena
Introduction This post is the first in a series that provides a resource to review the contents of Richard Caplice’s Introduction to Akkadian (4th ed.; 2002).... Read More