Oliver Robert Gurney
Oxford Assyriologist who published the Ur tuning text UET VII 74 (1968) and first read the string list Nabnitu XXXII. 1911–2001.
Oliver Robert Gurney is british Assyriologist and Hittitologist (1911 to 2001), Oxford; editor of the Ur Excavations Texts volumes that contain the tuning text (1911–2001), and appears in the record of Hurrian songs of Ugarit as oxford Assyriologist who published the Ur tuning text UET VII 74 (1968) and first read the string list Nabnitu XXXII.
Two events on the site involve Gurney, from Gurney and Wulstan publish the Ur tuning text; Laroche publishes the full Hurrian edition in Ugaritica V (1968) to West publishes a melodic reading on a descending scale; Gurney reconsiders the direction (1994).
One question rest in part on what Gurney did or said, among them “Does the Babylonian tuning series, and so the h.6 scale, run upward or downward?”, which stands open: 3 answers, none ahead.
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Mysteries Department. (2026). Oliver Robert Gurney [Person FIG0DEDPFHCBDC7]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/FIG0DEDPFHCBDC7
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