Caleb Howard
Caleb Howard studies the texts, history, and scholarship of ancient Mesopotamia and the Levant. His current book project investigates the mechanics of scribal production of Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions. The basis of this project is first-hand collation and photography of royal inscriptions of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 B.C.) in various museum collections. He is also preparing an updated edition of this king’s royal inscriptions, in cooperation with Jamie Novotny and A. Kirk Grayson. Transcriptions and translations of these inscriptions will be made available to scholars and the public via an online repository of cuneiform texts called Oracc (Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus). His other major project is the documentation and analysis of personal names in cuneiform tablets from the second millennium B.C., especially those of the ancient city of Alalaḫ.