# Anne Draffkorn Kilmer · Person

> Assyriologist at Berkeley who published CBS 10996 (1960), synthesised the Babylonian theory texts (1971) and read h.6 as dyads with repetition counts…

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# Anne Draffkorn Kilmer

Assyriologist at Berkeley who published CBS 10996 (1960), synthesised the Babylonian theory texts (1971) and read h.6 as dyads with repetition counts (1974). **Born 1931.**

[The Hurrian songs of Ugarit](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs)[2 events][2 sources]

Anne Draffkorn Kilmer is american Assyriologist (born 1931), University of California, Berkeley; author of the dyadic realization of h.6 and of Sounds from Silence (born 1931), and appears in the record of Hurrian songs of Ugarit as assyriologist at Berkeley who published CBS 10996 (1960), synthesised the Babylonian theory texts (1971) and read h.6 as dyads with repetition counts (1974).

Two events on the site involve Kilmer, from Kilmer publishes the Nippur list of fourteen string pairs, CBS 10996 (1960) to Kilmer publishes her dyadic reading and h.6 is performed on a reconstructed lyre in Berkeley (1974).

Five questions rest in part on what Kilmer did or said, among them “How do the notation terms align with the sung syllables of the Hurrian text?”, which stands open: no answer ahead yet.

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## In the mysteries

**The Hurrian songs of Ugarit**

Assyriologist at Berkeley who published CBS 10996 (1960), synthesised the Babylonian theory texts (1971) and read h.6 as dyads with repetition counts (1974). · 2 events

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs)

[How do the notation terms align with the sung syllables of the Hurrian text?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVBWBSGK3/how-do-the-notation-terms-align-with-the-sung-syllables-of)Open: no answer ahead yet

[Is the Ugarit notation the same system as the Mesopotamian theory texts describe, or a local adaptation?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVBZTCN1T/is-the-ugarit-notation-the-same-system-as-the-mesopotamian)Open: 2 answers, none ahead

[What do the interval names and numerals in the notation of h.6 instruct a performer to play?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVBCYE714/what-do-the-interval-names-and-numerals-in-the-notation-of-h)Open: 5 answers, none ahead

[Are the syllables repeated at the ends of lines in h.6 refrains, or an artefact of the spiral layout?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/questions/QST0DEDVH8B8A7W/are-the-syllables-repeated-at-the-ends-of-lines-in-h-6)No evidence yet: No evidence yet

## What Anne Draffkorn Kilmer did 2

1960[Kilmer publishes the Nippur list of fourteen string pairs, CBS 10996](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/events/EVT0DEDR0MEZXTF/kilmer-publishes-the-nippur-list-of-fourteen-string-pairs)

1974[Kilmer publishes her dyadic reading and h.6 is performed on a reconstructed lyre in Berkeley](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/events/EVT0DEDRE03VZE7/kilmer-publishes-her-dyadic-reading-and-h-6-is-performed-on)

## Sources 2

[The Cult Song with Music from Ancient Ugarit: Another Interpretation](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHDTPAT2K/the-cult-song-with-music-from-ancient-ugarit-another)

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[The Discovery of an Ancient Mesopotamian Theory of Music](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJRXM604D/the-discovery-of-an-ancient-mesopotamian-theory-of-music)

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1931

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Assyriologist, proposer of the dyad reading

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American Assyriologist (born 1931), University of California, Berkeley; author of the dyadic realization of h.6 and of Sounds from Silence

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