Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology

The Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology at Pacific School of Religion (PSR) is pleased to announce the digital capture and web disseminationof its collection of 15 cuneiform tablets and other inscribedmaterials through the website of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI). Catalogue, images, and available transliterationscan be accessed at http://tiny.cc/djd0y.

John Carnahan of UC Berkeley scanned this small corpus and processed the tablet surface images according to Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative standards to make this largely unknown and underpublished collection accessible to all levels of the academic community. 13 tablets and cones were purchased and donated to the museum by Dr.William F. Badè, John Howell, and a Los Gatos, California, resident in the early 20th century. Several transliterations were provided by Dr.Anne Kilmer, Professor Emeritus of UC Berkeley and students of her Advanced Akkadian class in spring of 2000.

Though somewhat outside the usual materials cataloged by CDLI, the museum is also happy to include an inscribed Middle Elamite fired mudbrick from Chogha Zanbil and a fragmentary bronze circlet excavated at Tell en-Nasbeh (a site ca. 8 miles north of Jerusalem) by Dr. Badè between 1926 and 1935. This addition is part of a larger project to digitally catalog all 5,800 artifacts, archives, and photographs from the Tell en-Nasbeh Collection at the Badè Museum.

Museum staff wish to acknowledge the kind assistance of John Carnahan (UC Berkeley) for image capture and editing, Aaron Brody (Director, Badè Museum) for allowing access and dissemination of the collection, and Niek Veldhuis (UC Berkeley) for encouraging the project. Bob Englund(UCLA) entered the collection to CDLI and helped with transliteration revisions. Anyone interested in preparing an edition of one or more ofthe texts should contact Dr. Aaron Brody directly at abrody@psr.edu.