Jonathan Taylor

Assistant Keeper, Cuneiform collections

Mesopotamia

Department: Middle East

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8382
Email: jjtaylor @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Jon is a curator responsible for the Museum’s outstanding collection of cuneiform texts from the ancient near east. He has a particular interest in education and literacy in the near east.

Prior to his appointment in January 2006, Jon was a Research Fellow on the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, University of Oxford www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/ and then Leverhulme Research Fellow on the Cuneiform Digital Palaeography Project, University of Birmingham www.cdp.bham.ac.uk.

Current British Museum projects

TIME gallery

Babylon exhibition

Umma project

Previous British Museum projects

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External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies

Project associate, Cuneiform Digital Palaeography project, University of Birmingham - www.cdp.bham.ac.uk/index.htm

Project associate, Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts, University of California, Berkeley - http://cuneiform.ucla.edu/dcclt/

Chair of Publications Committee, British Institute for the Study of Iraq - www.britac.ac.uk/institutes/iraq/

Member of Steering Committee, British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology

Board member of the International Association for Assyriology - www.let.leidenuniv.nl/iaa/index.html

Publications

Most recent publications

J. Taylor, 'Babylonian Lists of Words and Signs', in G. Leick (ed.) Babylonian World (New York; London, Routledge, 2007)

J. Taylor, '"A quantitative analysis of the Sumerian proverb collections', in J. Ebeling and G. Cunningham (eds.), Analysing Literary Sumerian: corpus-based approaches (London: Equinox, 2007) pp. 273–315

J. Taylor, Review of The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: Volume 12 P, to appear in the Journal of Semitic Studies (forthcoming)

J. Taylor, 'Lexicographical Study of the Already Ancient in Antiquity', in R. Biggs, J. Myers, M. Roth (eds.) Proceedings of the Fifty First Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Held at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, July 18-22, 2005 (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 62. Chicago, Ill.: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2008)

J. Taylor, 'On the Interpretation of Two Critical Passages in Gilgamesh and Huwawa', in H. Baker, E. Robson, G. Zólyomi (eds.) Your Praise is Sweet. A Memorial Volume Presented to Jeremy Allen Black by Colleagues, Students, and Friends (forthcoming)

J. Taylor, “OB Lu2-azlag2” (2006), "MB Lu", "Lu Long 01-05", and "Lu Short 01-02" (all 2007), Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts (www.cuneiform.ucla.edu/dcclt,)

J. Taylor, “The Sumerian Proverb Collections”, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 99 (2005) pp.13-38