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Papers by Andrew Deloucas

Cuneiform Digital Library Bulletin (CDLB), 2024

This article features the Groton School cuneiform-text collection, including a discussion on its ... more This article features the Groton School cuneiform-text collection, including a discussion on its provenance as well as photographs, transliterations, translations, notes, and commentaries on the three texts in the collection. Two of the texts are from the Ur III period (ca. 2110-2003 B.C.E.), whereas one is from the Late Babylonian period (ca. 5th century B.C.E. through 1st century C.E.). The Ur III texts are an expense report from Puzriš-Dagān and a sealed receipt from an unknown provenience. Their commentaries focus on key terminology such as the term šu-gid 2 in the former and the phrase apin-la 2-ta ba-a in the latter. The Late Babylonian text is a loan document from Sippar concerning silver for a house sale. It is utilized for a detailed reconstruction of the provenance of the Maštuk archive, first postulated by Caroline Waerzeggers (2002). The commentaries for all three texts also highlight prosopographical observations, especially for the Late Babylonian text.

Book Reviews by Andrew Deloucas

Bibliotheca Orientalis (BiOr), LXXIX 5/6, 2022

This review is under embargo until January 2025. See the link for access to the publisher's webpage.

Poster Presentations by Andrew Deloucas

OpenDANES, 2024

This poster presentation details the methodology of my ongoing Ph.D. dissertation, tentatively ti... more This poster presentation details the methodology of my ongoing Ph.D. dissertation, tentatively titled “The Organizational History of Old Babylonian Nippur and Ur". This study advances civic and social organizational analyses of the cities of Nippur and Ur, previously explored by Elizabeth Stone (1987) and Marc van de Mieroop (1992). The objective is to create comparative models of urban organization in southern Babylonia, analogous to those developed for Sippar (Harris 1975) and Assur (Larsen 1976).

To achieve this, I employ a microhistorical approach, utilizing archival research and prosopography. I organize and analyze a corpus of approximately 4,000 entries using relational database management software (Claris’s FileMaker). Data is sourced from online databases such as CDLI, ARCHIBAB, and Ur-Online, as well as museum collections hosted by the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, the Penn Museum, and the British Museum.

The methodologies employed include archival research—focused on excavation, museum collections, and published data—and prosopography. Regarding this second method, I seek to replicate and contribute to the work of scholars such as Kraus (1951), Charpin (1986), and Goddeeris (2016), while also establishing new dossiers. This poster will highlight initial findings from my fourth chapter, which examines texts dated from 2016 to 1841 BCE.

Cuneiform Digital Library Bulletin (CDLB), 2024

This article features the Groton School cuneiform-text collection, including a discussion on its ... more This article features the Groton School cuneiform-text collection, including a discussion on its provenance as well as photographs, transliterations, translations, notes, and commentaries on the three texts in the collection. Two of the texts are from the Ur III period (ca. 2110-2003 B.C.E.), whereas one is from the Late Babylonian period (ca. 5th century B.C.E. through 1st century C.E.). The Ur III texts are an expense report from Puzriš-Dagān and a sealed receipt from an unknown provenience. Their commentaries focus on key terminology such as the term šu-gid 2 in the former and the phrase apin-la 2-ta ba-a in the latter. The Late Babylonian text is a loan document from Sippar concerning silver for a house sale. It is utilized for a detailed reconstruction of the provenance of the Maštuk archive, first postulated by Caroline Waerzeggers (2002). The commentaries for all three texts also highlight prosopographical observations, especially for the Late Babylonian text.

Bibliotheca Orientalis (BiOr), LXXIX 5/6, 2022

This review is under embargo until January 2025. See the link for access to the publisher's webpage.

OpenDANES, 2024

This poster presentation details the methodology of my ongoing Ph.D. dissertation, tentatively ti... more This poster presentation details the methodology of my ongoing Ph.D. dissertation, tentatively titled “The Organizational History of Old Babylonian Nippur and Ur". This study advances civic and social organizational analyses of the cities of Nippur and Ur, previously explored by Elizabeth Stone (1987) and Marc van de Mieroop (1992). The objective is to create comparative models of urban organization in southern Babylonia, analogous to those developed for Sippar (Harris 1975) and Assur (Larsen 1976).

To achieve this, I employ a microhistorical approach, utilizing archival research and prosopography. I organize and analyze a corpus of approximately 4,000 entries using relational database management software (Claris’s FileMaker). Data is sourced from online databases such as CDLI, ARCHIBAB, and Ur-Online, as well as museum collections hosted by the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, the Penn Museum, and the British Museum.

The methodologies employed include archival research—focused on excavation, museum collections, and published data—and prosopography. Regarding this second method, I seek to replicate and contribute to the work of scholars such as Kraus (1951), Charpin (1986), and Goddeeris (2016), while also establishing new dossiers. This poster will highlight initial findings from my fourth chapter, which examines texts dated from 2016 to 1841 BCE.