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Grant Frame

August 22, 2023

Grant Frame (born 1950[1]) is a Canadian-American Assyriologist, Professor Emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania, and Curator Emeritus of the Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.[2]  He is an expert on Akkadian language and literature and on the history and culture of ancient Mesopotamia in the first millennium BCE, in particular the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods.  Since 2008, he has served as Director and Editor-in-Chief of The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP), an international research project funded by the U.S. government's National Endowment for the Humanities and other granting agencies, to translate the royal inscriptions of the rulers of Assyria from 744 to 609 BC.  The RINAP project marks the continuation of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia (RIM) project, which Frame's teacher and mentor, Albert Kirk Grayson, founded at the University of Toronto in 1978[3] and led until his retirement with support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.[4]

Education and career

A native of Toronto,[5] Grant Frame attended the Royal York Collegiate Institute before earning a B.A. degree in Near Eastern Studies, with honors, from the University of Toronto.  He earned an M.A. degree in Assyriology from the University of Toronto as well.  He then pursued his PhD at the University of Chicago, where he earned a PhD in 1981 for a dissertation entitled, Babylonia 689–627 B.C.: A Political History, which he wrote under the supervision of J.A. Brinkman, Simo Parpola, and Erica Reiner.[1] For this study, Frame analyzed cuneiform tablets from several collections, including the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, the Vorderasiatische Museum in Berlin, and the Louvre.[1] He traced events from the destruction of Babylon by the Assyrian king Sennacherib in 689 to the death of the Babylonian ruler Kandalanu in 627, a period that witnessed the height of the Neo-Assyrian empire as well as the beginning of the collapse of the Assyrian Empire in Assyria and of the shift of power to Babylonia.  

From 1980 to 2006, Grant Frame was a member of the faculty in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations (formerly the Department of Near Eastern Studies) at the University of Toronto.  During this time, he contributed to the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project, by serving as its Assistant Director and at times as Acting Director.[6]

In 2006 he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, initially as an Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and ultimately as full Professor.  During this time, he was also Associate Curator and later Curator of the Penn Museum's Babylonian Section which contains approximately 30,000 cuneiform clay tablets.  From 2017 to 2020 he directed the Center for Ancient Studies at Penn.[6][7]

Research and publications

The Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten published Grant Frame's dissertation as a book in 1992 and issued a second edition in 2007.[8]

As an outgrowth of his work on the University of Toronto's Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia project, Grant Frame published Rulers of Babylonia: From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157–612 BC), in 1995.  The University of Toronto Press reprinted this book in 2002 and issued a paperback in 2015.

Frame edited or contributed to many other volumes and published articles in dozens of journals ranging from the Journal of Cuneiform Studies and the Zeitschrift für Assyriologie to the Journal of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies.  He co-wrote exhibition catalogues, such as for a Penn Museum exhibit on magic in the ancient world,[9] and served on the team that produced the Penn Museum's new Middle East Galleries, which opened in 2019.[10]   He has delivered public lectures on ancient Near Eastern history[11] and has advised media sources. He spoke in a panel in the BBC Radio World Service series on “Babylon, City of Wonders” which aired in June, 2020.[12]

In his book The Archive of Mušēzib-Marduk, Son of Kiribtu and Descendant of Sîn-nāṣir:  A Landowner and Property Developer at Uruk in the Seventh Century BC (2013), Frame published thirty-three cuneiform tablets describing the approximately 45-year career of an individual who bought properties in the city of Uruk in southern Iraq, including in the midst of a major rebellion. This private archive from Babylonia consists of land sale documents, loans with property given as security, and a legal proceeding. The tablets Frame studied come from the British Museum, as well as from the Louvre, the Babylonian collection of Yale University, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the National Museum of Iraq, and the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva.[13]

As part of the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period project (see below), Frame authored the second volume of the series entitled, The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II (721–705 BC) (2021, by Eisenbrauns). The volume presents updated English editions with introductory remarks and commentary of 130 royal inscriptions of Sargon II, as well as 11 inscriptions of the royal family and his officials and 10 uncertain inscriptions. These texts are inscribed on various media — including stone wall slabs from his palace, paving slabs, colossi, steles, prisms, and cylinders, among others — originating from all across the ancient Near Eastern world.

Selected publications:

A.K. Grayson, with the assistance of G. Frame and D. Frayne. Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC (to 1115 BC), by The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Assyrian Periods 1. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987; reprinted 2002.

G. Frame. Babylonia 689–627 B.C.: A Political History. Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul 69. Istanbul and Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 1992; reprinted 2007.

G. Frame. Rulers of Babylonia: From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination (1157–612 BC). The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia: Babylonian Periods 2. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995; reprinted 2002 and 2015.

G. Frame, ed., with the assistance of L.S. Wilding. From the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea: Studies on the History of Assyria and Babylonia in Honour of A.K. Grayson. Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden 101. Istanbul and Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2004.

E. Leichty, with a contribution by Grant Frame. The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 BC). Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 4. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011.

G. Frame, E.V. Leichty, K. Sonik, J. Tigay, and S. Tinney, eds. A Common Cultural Heritage: Mesopotamia and the Biblical World. Studies in Honor of Dr. Barry L. Eichler. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2011.

G. Frame, The Archive of Mušēzib-Marduk, Son of Kiribtu and Descendant of Sîn-nāṣir: A Landowner and Property Developer at Uruk in the Seventh Century BC. Babylonische Archive 5. Dresden: ISLET, 2013.

G. Frame, with the collaboration of A. Fuchs for two inscriptions. The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II (721–705 BC). The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 2. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2021.

G. Frame, J. Jeffers, and H. Pittman, eds. Ur in the Twenty-First Century CE: Proceedings of the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Philadelphia, July 11–15, 2016. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns 2021.

G. Frame and S. Parpola. The Correspondence of Assurbanipal, Part II: Letters from Southern Babylonia. State Archives of Assyria 22. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2023.

J. Novotny, J. Jeffers and G. Frame. The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC), and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 3. The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 5/3. University Park, Pennsylvania: Eisenbrauns, 2023.

Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period: RIM and RINAP Projects

As a faculty member for many years at the University of Toronto, Grant Frame contributed to the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project, for as assistant director under the leadership of Professor A. Kirk Grayson.  Grayson retired in 2000 and ceded responsibility to Frame.  Shifting the focus to examine inscriptions to the Neo-Assyrian period, Frame established the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, or RINAP, and assembled a team to translate all known royal inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian kings from the era of Tiglath-pileser III (who ruled from 744-727 BCE through the era of Sin-shar-ishkun (ruled 627–612 BCE).  RINAP secured funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities in order to produce editions in printed volumes and in a fully searchable and indexed online format.[14][15] The translations cover thousands of texts that survive on clay tablets and cylinders, and in inscriptions on walls, objects, and other materials, from the region corresponding to what is now Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Turkey.[6]  So far several volumes of translations from the RINAP project have appeared in print from the publisher Eisenbrauns.

References

  1. ^ a b c Frame, Grant (1981). Babylonia, 689-627 B.C.: A Political History. PhD Dissertation, University of Chicago.
  2. ^ "Babylonian Section". www.penn.museum. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  3. ^ "The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project | ETANA". www.etana.org. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  4. ^ Grayson, A. Kirk (1993). "Assyrian Officials and Power in the Ninth and Eighth Centuries". State Archives of Assyria Bulletin (SAAB). VII: 1 – via http://www.helsinki.fi/science/saa/7.1%2004%20Grayson.pdf. {{cite journal}}: External link in |via= (help)
  5. ^ Lou, Ethan (2015-06-25). ""A Toronto man is defying ISIS, using neo-Assyrian tablets", The Star". thestar.com. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  6. ^ a b c "Penn Professor Grant Frame Translates Royal Inscriptions of Neo-Assyrian Period". Penn Today. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  7. ^ "Penn Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Faculty Profiles". www.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  8. ^ Frame, Grant. (1992). Babylonia 689-627 B.C. : a political history. Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul. ISBN 90-6258-069-6. OCLC 26645689.
  9. ^ Ousterhout, Robert; Frame, Grant; Freeman, Michael (2016). Magic in the Ancient World. An Exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology April 16, 2016 – April 30, 2017. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
  10. ^ Ermidoro, Stefania (2019-11-19). "In the Spotlight: The New Middle East Gallery at the Penn Museum, by Grant Frame". The International Association for Assyriology. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  11. ^ "Great Wonders: Searching for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon - Digital Collections - Penn Museum". www.penn.museum. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  12. ^ BBC World Service (June 4, 2020). "Babylon, City of Wonders". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-07. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ Frame, Grant. (2013). The archive of Mušēzib-Marduk, son of Kiribtu and descendant of Sîn-nāṣir : a landowner and property developer at Uruk in the seventh century BC. Dresden. ISBN 978-3-9808466-7-7. OCLC 837508831.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  14. ^ "The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period". oracc.museum.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  15. ^ "NEH grant products: Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period". securegrants.neh.gov. Retrieved 2020-08-07.

August 22, 2023
grant, frame, born, 1950, canadian, american, assyriologist, professor, emeritus, university, pennsylvania, curator, emeritus, babylonian, section, university, pennsylvania, museum, archaeology, anthropology, expert, akkadian, language, literature, history, cu. Grant Frame born 1950 1 is a Canadian American Assyriologist Professor Emeritus of the University of Pennsylvania and Curator Emeritus of the Babylonian Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 2 He is an expert on Akkadian language and literature and on the history and culture of ancient Mesopotamia in the first millennium BCE in particular the Neo Assyrian and Neo Babylonian periods Since 2008 he has served as Director and Editor in Chief of The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo Assyrian Period RINAP an international research project funded by the U S government s National Endowment for the Humanities and other granting agencies to translate the royal inscriptions of the rulers of Assyria from 744 to 609 BC The RINAP project marks the continuation of the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia RIM project which Frame s teacher and mentor Albert Kirk Grayson founded at the University of Toronto in 1978 3 and led until his retirement with support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 4 Contents 1 Education and career 2 Research and publications 3 Royal Inscriptions of the Neo Assyrian Period RIM and RINAP Projects 4 ReferencesEducation and career EditA native of Toronto 5 Grant Frame attended the Royal York Collegiate Institute before earning a B A degree in Near Eastern Studies with honors from the University of Toronto He earned an M A degree in Assyriology from the University of Toronto as well He then pursued his PhD at the University of Chicago where he earned a PhD in 1981 for a dissertation entitled Babylonia 689 627 B C A Political History which he wrote under the supervision of J A Brinkman Simo Parpola and Erica Reiner 1 For this study Frame analyzed cuneiform tablets from several collections including the British Museum the Ashmolean Museum the Vorderasiatische Museum in Berlin and the Louvre 1 He traced events from the destruction of Babylon by the Assyrian king Sennacherib in 689 to the death of the Babylonian ruler Kandalanu in 627 a period that witnessed the height of the Neo Assyrian empire as well as the beginning of the collapse of the Assyrian Empire in Assyria and of the shift of power to Babylonia From 1980 to 2006 Grant Frame was a member of the faculty in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations formerly the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Toronto During this time he contributed to the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project by serving as its Assistant Director and at times as Acting Director 6 In 2006 he joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania initially as an Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and ultimately as full Professor During this time he was also Associate Curator and later Curator of the Penn Museum s Babylonian Section which contains approximately 30 000 cuneiform clay tablets From 2017 to 2020 he directed the Center for Ancient Studies at Penn 6 7 Research and publications EditThe Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten published Grant Frame s dissertation as a book in 1992 and issued a second edition in 2007 8 As an outgrowth of his work on the University of Toronto s Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia project Grant Frame published Rulers of Babylonia From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination 1157 612 BC in 1995 The University of Toronto Press reprinted this book in 2002 and issued a paperback in 2015 Frame edited or contributed to many other volumes and published articles in dozens of journals ranging from the Journal of Cuneiform Studies and the Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie to the Journal of the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies He co wrote exhibition catalogues such as for a Penn Museum exhibit on magic in the ancient world 9 and served on the team that produced the Penn Museum s new Middle East Galleries which opened in 2019 10 He has delivered public lectures on ancient Near Eastern history 11 and has advised media sources He spoke in a panel in the BBC Radio World Service series on Babylon City of Wonders which aired in June 2020 12 In his book The Archive of Musezib Marduk Son of Kiribtu and Descendant of Sin naṣir A Landowner and Property Developer at Uruk in the Seventh Century BC 2013 Frame published thirty three cuneiform tablets describing the approximately 45 year career of an individual who bought properties in the city of Uruk in southern Iraq including in the midst of a major rebellion This private archive from Babylonia consists of land sale documents loans with property given as security and a legal proceeding The tablets Frame studied come from the British Museum as well as from the Louvre the Babylonian collection of Yale University the Free Library of Philadelphia the National Museum of Iraq and the Musee d Art et d Histoire in Geneva 13 As part of the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo Assyrian Period project see below Frame authored the second volume of the series entitled The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II 721 705 BC 2021 by Eisenbrauns The volume presents updated English editions with introductory remarks and commentary of 130 royal inscriptions of Sargon II as well as 11 inscriptions of the royal family and his officials and 10 uncertain inscriptions These texts are inscribed on various media including stone wall slabs from his palace paving slabs colossi steles prisms and cylinders among others originating from all across the ancient Near Eastern world Selected publications A K Grayson with the assistance of G Frame and D Frayne Assyrian Rulers of the Third and Second Millennia BC to 1115 BC by The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Assyrian Periods 1 Toronto University of Toronto Press 1987 reprinted 2002 G Frame Babylonia 689 627 B C A Political History Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul 69 Istanbul and Leiden Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten 1992 reprinted 2007 G Frame Rulers of Babylonia From the Second Dynasty of Isin to the End of Assyrian Domination 1157 612 BC The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Babylonian Periods 2 Toronto University of Toronto Press 1995 reprinted 2002 and 2015 G Frame ed with the assistance of L S Wilding From the Upper Sea to the Lower Sea Studies on the History of Assyria and Babylonia in Honour of A K Grayson Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden 101 Istanbul and Leiden Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten 2004 E Leichty with a contribution by Grant Frame The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon King of Assyria 680 669 BC Royal Inscriptions of the Neo Assyrian Period 4 Winona Lake IN Eisenbrauns 2011 G Frame E V Leichty K Sonik J Tigay and S Tinney eds A Common Cultural Heritage Mesopotamia and the Biblical World Studies in Honor of Dr Barry L Eichler Bethesda MD CDL Press 2011 G Frame The Archive of Musezib Marduk Son of Kiribtu and Descendant of Sin naṣir A Landowner and Property Developer at Uruk in the Seventh Century BC Babylonische Archive 5 Dresden ISLET 2013 G Frame with the collaboration of A Fuchs for two inscriptions The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II 721 705 BC The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo Assyrian Period 2 University Park PA Eisenbrauns 2021 G Frame J Jeffers and H Pittman eds Ur in the Twenty First Century CE Proceedings of the 62nd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale Philadelphia July 11 15 2016 Winona Lake Indiana Eisenbrauns 2021 G Frame and S Parpola The Correspondence of Assurbanipal Part II Letters from Southern Babylonia State Archives of Assyria 22 Helsinki Neo Assyrian Text Corpus Project 2023 J Novotny J Jeffers and G Frame The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal 668 631 BC Assur etel ilani 630 627 BC and Sin sarra iskun 626 612 BC Kings of Assyria Part 3 The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo Assyrian Period 5 3 University Park Pennsylvania Eisenbrauns 2023 Royal Inscriptions of the Neo Assyrian Period RIM and RINAP Projects EditAs a faculty member for many years at the University of Toronto Grant Frame contributed to the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project for as assistant director under the leadership of Professor A Kirk Grayson Grayson retired in 2000 and ceded responsibility to Frame Shifting the focus to examine inscriptions to the Neo Assyrian period Frame established the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo Assyrian Period or RINAP and assembled a team to translate all known royal inscriptions of the Neo Assyrian kings from the era of Tiglath pileser III who ruled from 744 727 BCE through the era of Sin shar ishkun ruled 627 612 BCE RINAP secured funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities in order to produce editions in printed volumes and in a fully searchable and indexed online format 14 15 The translations cover thousands of texts that survive on clay tablets and cylinders and in inscriptions on walls objects and other materials from the region corresponding to what is now Iraq Syria Iran and Turkey 6 So far several volumes of translations from the RINAP project have appeared in print from the publisher Eisenbrauns References Edit a b c Frame Grant 1981 Babylonia 689 627 B C A Political History PhD Dissertation University of Chicago Babylonian Section www penn museum Retrieved 2020 08 07 The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project ETANA www etana org Retrieved 2020 08 07 Grayson A Kirk 1993 Assyrian Officials and Power in the Ninth and Eighth Centuries State Archives of Assyria Bulletin SAAB VII 1 via http www helsinki fi science saa 7 1 2004 20Grayson pdf a href Template Cite journal html title Template Cite journal cite journal a External link in code class cs1 code via code help Lou Ethan 2015 06 25 A Toronto man is defying ISIS using neo Assyrian tablets The Star thestar com Retrieved 2020 08 07 a b c Penn Professor Grant Frame Translates Royal Inscriptions of Neo Assyrian Period Penn Today Retrieved 2020 08 07 Penn Near Eastern Languages amp Civilizations Faculty Profiles www sas upenn edu Retrieved 2020 08 07 Frame Grant 1992 Babylonia 689 627 B C a political history Istanbul Nederlands Historisch Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul ISBN 90 6258 069 6 OCLC 26645689 Ousterhout Robert Frame Grant Freeman Michael 2016 Magic in the Ancient World An Exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology April 16 2016 April 30 2017 University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Ermidoro Stefania 2019 11 19 In the Spotlight The New Middle East Gallery at the Penn Museum by Grant Frame The International Association for Assyriology Retrieved 2020 08 07 Great Wonders Searching for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon Digital Collections Penn Museum www penn museum Retrieved 2020 08 07 BBC World Service June 4 2020 Babylon City of Wonders www bbc co uk Retrieved 2020 08 07 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a archive date requires archive url help CS1 maint url status link Frame Grant 2013 The archive of Musezib Marduk son of Kiribtu and descendant of Sin naṣir a landowner and property developer at Uruk in the seventh century BC Dresden ISBN 978 3 9808466 7 7 OCLC 837508831 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo Assyrian Period oracc museum upenn edu Retrieved 2020 08 07 NEH grant products Royal Inscriptions of the Neo Assyrian Period securegrants neh gov Retrieved 2020 08 07 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Grant Frame amp oldid 1167267596, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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