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Clark Chair in Assyriology: Dr. Tinney

Stephen Tinney

Dr. Stephen J. Tinney has been appointed to the Clark Research Professorship in Assyriology, SAS Dean Samuel H. Preston has announced.

Dr. Tinney has been a member of the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies since 1996. He is also associate curator in the Babylonian section of the University Museum. Before being appointed to a faculty position, he was a research specialist on the Museum's Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project. He now directs this project to create the world's first dictionary of the first written language. He is also a consultant to the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative at UCLA, and to Oxford University's Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature Project.

He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Dr. Tinney is the author of The Nippur Lament: Royal Rhetoric and Divine Legitimation in the Reign of Isme-Dagan of Isin (1953-1935 B.C.); his second book, Elementary Sumerian Literary Texts, is due to appear in the series Mesopotamian Civilisations next year. He is a member of SAS's Learning and Technology Committee and the graduate groups in ancient history, and Asian and Middle Eastern studies (Near Eastern languages and civilizations), linguistics, and religious studies.

The Clark Chair was established in 1902 by Edward White Clark and Clarence H. Clark, both of whom were prominent Philadelphia financiers who developed a deep devotion to Penn and to archaeology and ancient studies. Clarence Clark served as director of the department of archaeology but also had an active career outside academia. Later in life he became president of the Horticultural Society of Philadelphia, a University Trustee, and a member of the Free Library board. Edward Clark, inspired by a visit to Damascus in 1853, developed a lifelong interest in archaeology and helped to found the University Museum; he also served as a Penn Trustee.

 


  Almanac, Vol. 49, No. 32, May 6, 2003

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