
RTI Dome 7. Credit: Custom Imaging; https://custom-imaging.co.uk/projects/dome-7/
What: Capture, Model, Interpret: new ways of imaging ancient text artefacts
Who: Jacob Dahl and Kirk Martinez
When: 13:00—14:00, Tuesday 30 May 2017
Where: Weston Library Lecture Theatre (map)
Access: all are welcome
Admission: free

Seal impression on the proto-Elamite tablet Sb 04832 captured from an RTI dome image made in the Louvre. Credit: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative; http://cdli.ucla.edu/P008022.
Jacob Dahl is a specialist of the pre-Classical cultures and languages of the Near East. He has written on early Babylonian socio-economic history, early Near Eastern writing systems, and Sumerian literature. He works on the decipherment of proto-Elamite, the last undeciphered writing system from the ancient Near East with a substantial number of sources (more than 1600 tablets divided between the Louvre Museum and the National Museum of Iran). Initially inspired and influenced by archaic cuneiform from Mesopotamia, proto-Elamite was a very short-lived writing system (ca. 3100 – 2900 BC) used across much of what today constitute the Islamic Republic of Iran.As a co-PI of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative he seeks to document and safeguard Mesopotamia’s contribution to our shared world history by making its ancient records available freely online.
imaging of ancient seals.