Rattenborg, Rune

 

This profile was last modified on 2025-05-14 at 06:15:41

Biography and Research

Rune Rattenborg is an archaeologist and assyriologist, educated at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies of the University of Copenhagen (MA Assyriology 2012) and the Department of Archaeology of Durham University (PhD Archaeology 2017). Working across digital epigraphy and landscape archaeology, his research centres on data-driven perspectives on the materiality of writing in the cuneiform world. His doctoral dissertation presented a comparative study of the scale of six Bronze Age palatial economies in Syria, Iraq and Turkey as viewed through the combined lenses of quantitative data from administrative records and archaeological settlement data. From 2020-2023, he was the co-PI and research coordinator of Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW), a mixed-methods project based at Uppsala University, with the aim of providing a global survey of the cuneiform record, a written corpus counting more than 500,000 artifacts.

Publications

Pagé-Perron, Émilie, and Rune Rattenborg. 2025. “TBD Harrogate.” [Harrogate (Page-Perron_RattenborgTBDHarrogate)]

Rattenborg, Rune, and Troels Pank Arbøll. 2014. “Further on NABU 2001/7: An Administrative Tablet from the 3rd Dynasty of Ur.” NABU, Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2014 (2): 17–19. [Rattenborg & Arbøll NABU 2014/010 (Rattenborg_Arbøll2014)]

Rattenborg, Rune, Carolin Johansson, Seraina Nett, Gustav Ryberg Smidt, and Jakob Andersson. 2021. “An Open Access Index for the Geographical Distribution of the Cuneiform Corpus.” Cuneiform Digital Library Journal 2021 (1): 1–12. https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/articles/cdlj/2021-1. [Rattenborg et al. CDLJ 2021/001 (Rattenborg_et_al_2021)]

Rattenborg, Rune, Gustav Ryberg Smidt, Carolin Johansson, Nils Melin-Kronsell, and Seraina Nett. 2023. “The Archaeological Distribution of the Cuneiform Corpus.” Altorientalische Forschungen 50 (2): 178–205. https://doi.org/10.1515/aofo-2023-0014. [Rattenborg et al. 2023 (Rattenborg_et_al_2023)]

Rattenborg, Rune, and Carolin Johansson. 2022. “The Location of Umm Chatil: A Note on BM 116618.” NABU, Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2022 (1): 1–3. https://sepoa.fr/wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/NABU-2022-1.pdf. [Rattenborg & Johansson NABU 2022/001 (Rattenborg_Johansson2022)]

Rattenborg, Rune. 2016. “On Cereal Crops in the Middle Bronze Age Jazīrah and the Meaning of Burrum.” NABU, Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2016 (2): 67–70. [Rattenborg, NABU 2016/2 (2016) (Rattenborg2016-63BYWPFN)]

Rattenborg, Rune. 2016. “The Scale and Extent of Political Economies of the Middle Bronze Age Jazīrah and the Bilād Al-Šām (c. 1800-1600 BCE).” Phdthesis, University of Durham. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11932/1/Rattenborg_Scale%26Extent_2016DEC24.pdf. [Rattenborg Diss (Rattenborg2016Scale)]

Rattenborg, Rune, Carolin Johansson, Seraina Nett, Gustav Ryberg Smidt, and Jakob Andersson. 2021. “Cuneiform Inscriptions Geographical Site Index (CIGS).” Zenodo. 2021. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4960710. [CIGS (Rattenborg2021)]

Rattenborg, Rune. 2023. “Gone West: Revisiting the Cuneiform Tablet of Thunder-Rolling-Down-the-Mountain.” Cuneiform Digital Library Notes, no. 2023/1. https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/articles/cdln/2023-1. [CDLN 2023/001 (Rattenborg2023_1-1506659)]

Smidt, Gustav Ryberg, Carolin Johansson, Nils Melin-Kronsell, Seraina Nett, and Rune Rattenborg. 2023. “Cuneiform Inscriptions Geographical Site – Assemblage Estimates (CIGS-AE).” Zenodo. 2023. https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.8379793. [CIGS-AE (Smidt2023)]


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Associate at CDLI

Created Type Description Role Status
2025-12-08 at 12:29:36 Artifact Corrected external links identifiers Creator, Reviewer approved
2025-12-08 at 11:56:41 Artifact Corrected confused museum numbers for P216654 and P216629 (see Louvre online collection) Reviewer approved
2025-11-20 at 09:01:22 Artifact Added the metadata of all the texts from AKT 11b Reviewer approved
2025-11-19 at 11:20:03 Artifact Creator, Reviewer, Author approved
2025-11-19 at 10:58:16 Other Entity Creator, Reviewer, Author approved
2025-11-19 at 10:56:53 Other Entity Creator, Reviewer, Author approved
2025-10-22 at 07:54:54 Other Entity Corrected provenience record name Creator, Reviewer approved
2025-10-22 at 07:53:44 Other Entity Updated spelling of place name following proposal from Özdemir June 2025 Creator, Reviewer approved
2025-06-12 at 07:25:39 Artifact Updated language and publications data from GLoW catalogue Creator, Reviewer, Author approved
2025-06-11 at 12:03:32 Artifact Primary artifact record import from GLoW catalogue for Tel Beth Shemesh Creator, Reviewer, Author approved

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Cite this Author

CDLI contributors. 2025. “Rattenborg, Rune - Authors.” Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. December 16, 2025. https://cdli.earth/authors/1196.
CDLI contributors. (2025, December 16). Rattenborg, Rune - Authors. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. https://cdli.earth/authors/1196
CDLI contributors (2025) Rattenborg, Rune - Authors, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Available at: https://cdli.earth/authors/1196 (Accessed: December 16, 2025).
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Cite this Author

CDLI contributors. 2025. “Rattenborg, Rune - Authors.” Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. December 16, 2025. https://cdli.earth/authors/1196.
CDLI contributors. (2025, December 16). Rattenborg, Rune - Authors. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. https://cdli.earth/authors/1196
CDLI contributors (2025) Rattenborg, Rune - Authors, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. Available at: https://cdli.earth/authors/1196 (Accessed: December 16, 2025).
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