# Richard Dumbrill · Person

> Archaeomusicologist, co-founder of ICONEA, who reads the Babylonian system as nine-note and has published his own transcription of h.6. In The Hurrian…

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# Richard Dumbrill

Archaeomusicologist, co-founder of ICONEA, who reads the Babylonian system as nine-note and has published his own transcription of h.6. **Born 1947.**

[The Hurrian songs of Ugarit](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs)[1 event][1 source]

Richard Dumbrill is french-born British archaeomusicologist (born 1947), Institute of Musical Research, University of London; co-founder of ICONEA with Irving Finkel (born 1947), and appears in the record of Hurrian songs of Ugarit as archaeomusicologist, co-founder of ICONEA, who reads the Babylonian system as nine-note and has published his own transcription of h.6.

One event on the site involves Dumbrill: Hagel proposes that the numerals are durations; Dumbrill's second edition argues for a nine-note system (2005).

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## In the mysteries

**The Hurrian songs of Ugarit**

Archaeomusicologist, co-founder of ICONEA, who reads the Babylonian system as nine-note and has published his own transcription of h.6. · 1 event

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## What Richard Dumbrill did 1

2005[Hagel proposes that the numerals are durations; Dumbrill's second edition argues for a nine-note system](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hurrian-songs/events/EVT0DEDRGFPZSRS/hagel-proposes-that-the-numerals-are-durations-dumbrills)

## Sources 1

[The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJAFW5JGZ/the-archaeomusicology-of-the-ancient-near-east)

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French-born British archaeomusicologist (born 1947), Institute of Musical Research, University of London; co-founder of ICONEA with Irving Finkel

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