Cuneiform Library at Cornell University 
The Jonathan as well as Jeannette Rosen Cuneiform Tablet Collection, including both the library as well as the conservation laboratory, is permanently unopen effective June 30, 2019.
In the twenty years the cuneiform tablet collection was at Cornell, it was studied past times dozens of scholars as well as has led to over iii dozen books as well as articles, amongst to a greater extent than inwards press. We give thank yous all who made this examine possible, including the many students, volunteers, researchers, as well as staff who worked diligently to conserve as well as document these tablets for hereafter generations. We too thank the Rosen Foundation, whose generous back upwards made it all possible.
Through the combined efforts of the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Cornell University Library as well as the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) at UCLA the substantial collection of cuneiform tablets inwards the Jonathan as well as Jeannette Rosen Ancient Near Eastern Seminar inwards the Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University is inwards the procedure of beingness made available every bit an online information set.
David I. Owen, the Bernard as well as Jane Schapiro Professor of Ancient Near Eastern as well as Judaic Studies inwards the Department of Near Eastern Studies as well as Curator of Tablet Collections, together amongst Oya Rieger of the Cornell University Library were instrumental inwards initiating this projection as well as its collaboration amongst the CDLI. It is through their efforts that these pregnant materials are beingness made available to scholars, students as well as the interested populace alike inwards the shape of digitized images as well as transliterations.
The catalogue was initiated past times Nicole Brisch, Rosen Foundation Post-doctoral Faculty Associate inwards the Near Eastern Studies subdivision from 2004-2006 as well as later augmented as well as revised past times Alhena Gadotti, Lance Allred, as well as Alexandra Kleinerman Rosen Foundation Post-doctoral Faculty Associates from 2006-2011. Lisa Kinney-Bajwa, Rosen Foundation Conservator as well as Photographer, as well as her successors, Laura W. Johnson-Kelly as well as Jeffrey R. Zorn , were instrumental inwards conserving as well as cleaning the tablets every bit good every bit making detailed as well as highly specified, enhanced, digital images of the tablets inwards "le technique Owen" (ammonium chloride method) since 2003. The website was designed past times Melissa Kuo, amongst programming back upwards from James Reidy, as well as the Library's Digital Consulting as well as Production Services group.
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