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Thorkild Jacobsen
Born(1904-06-07)7 June 1904
Copenhagen, Denmark
Died2 May 1993(1993-05-02) (aged 88)
Bradford, New Hampshire, U.S.
NationalityDanish
Alma materUniversity of Copenhagen (MA)
University of Chicago (PhD)
Known forThe Treasures of Darkness Sumerian King List
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
Scientific career
FieldsAssyriology
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Harvard University

Thorkild Peter Rudolph Jacobsen (Danish: [ˈtsʰɒːkʰil ˈjɑkʌpsn̩]; 7 June 1904 – 2 May 1993) was a Danish historian specializing in Assyriology and Sumerian literature. He was one of the foremost scholars on the ancient Near East.

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Thorkild Peter Rudolph Jacobsen (Danish: [ˈtsʰɒːkʰil ˈjɑkʌpsn̩]; 7 June 1904 – 2 May 1993) was a Danish historian specializing in Assyriology and Sumerian...

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Thorkild

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for his Slave Trilogy Thorkild Jacobsen (1904–1993), renowned historian specialising in Assyriology and Sumerian literature Thorkild Roose (1874 – 1961)...

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Ancient literature

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University of California press. p. 23. ISBN 9780520248427. OCLC 889165092. Thorkild Jacobsen (1997). The Harps that once--: Sumerian poetry in translation, pp...

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Eshnunna

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Institute of the University of Chicago team led by Henri Frankfort with Thorkild Jacobsen, Pinhas Delougaz, Gordon Loud, and Seton Lloyd. The expedition's field...

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Tiamat

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her (without real proof) with images of a sea serpent or dragon. Thorkild Jacobsen and Walter Burkert both argue for a connection with the Akkadian word...

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Sumer

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a literary language familiar mainly only to scholars and scribes. Thorkild Jacobsen has argued that there is little break in historical continuity between...

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Tell Asmar Hoard

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Asmar and Khafãjah (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939). Thorkild Jacobsen, "God of Worshipper". In Essays in Ancient Civilizations Presented...

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Dilmun

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doi:10.21769/bioprotoc.1010557. ISSN 2331-8325. S2CID 239256795. Thorkild Jacobsen (23 September 1997). The Harps that once: Sumerian poetry in translation...

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Sumerian King List

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from the archaeological record as well as other textual sources. Thorkild Jacobsen argued in his major 1939 study of the SKL that, in principle, all...

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Khafajah

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an Oriental Institute of Chicago team led by Henri Frankfort with Thorkild Jacobsen, Conrad Preusser and Pinhas Delougaz. For two seasons, in 1937 and...

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Inanna

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Hidden in Secret Places: Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Thorkild Jacobsen, edited by Tzvi Abusch, University Park, USA: Penn State University...

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Hursag

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translated as meaning "mountain", "hill", "foothills" or "piedmont". Thorkild Jacobsen extrapolated the translation in his later career to mean literally...

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Abu Salabikh

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Kesh have been suggested as well as Gišgi. Kesh was suggested by Thorkild Jacobsen before excavations began. The Euphrates was the city's highway and...

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Ancient Mesopotamian underworld

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Tiamat, but this interpretation was refuted as unsubstantiated by Thorkild Jacobsen in his essay "Sumerian Mythology: A Review Article" and is not mentioned...

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Hymn to Enlil

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myth to its present form with the latest translations presented by Thorkild Jacobsen, Miguel Civil and Joachim Krecher. The hymn, noted by Kramer as one...

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Enlil

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Enlil in Early Mesopotamia. pp. 6–22. Retrieved 20 December 2020. Jacobsen, Thorkild (1989). "The líl of En-líl". In Berens, H.; Loding, D. M.; Roth, M...

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Ningikuga

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By extension, she functioned as the grandmother of Inanna. While Thorkild Jacobsen assumed that the mother of Ningal and the spouse of Enki were the...

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Eduba

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"The Old Babylonian Eduba" in Sumerological Studies in Honor of Thorkild Jacobsen on His Seventieth Birthday, June 7, 1974, edited by S. J. Lieberman...

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Ancient Semitic religion

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literature. D. Appleton and company. p. 26. Retrieved 27 June 2011. Thorkild Jacobsen (1978). The treasures of darkness: a history of Mesopotamian religion...

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Lilith

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figure is more generally identified as the goddess of love and war: Thorkild Jacobsen identified the figure as Inanna in an analysis based on the existence...

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Jerwan

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an elusive World Wonder traced. (Oxford University Press, 2013). Thorkild Jacobsen and Seton Lloyd.Sennacherib’s Aqueduct at JerwanOriental Institute...

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