Clay Cuneiform tablet.
Purchased by South Dakota State College President Willis E. Johnson from Dr. Edgar J. Banks in 1923.
Transcribe d by Dr. by Edgar James Banks in an undated letter: Found at Drehem, a suburb of Nippur, where there was a receiving station for the temple of Bel. The inscription is a bill for 7 lambs and 4 kid goats delivered on the 4th day of the month. It is dated in the last three lines about 2350 B.C., or early in the Ur dynasty of kings who ruled from about 2400 to 2100 B.C.
Description by the [Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, UCLA](University of California, Los Angeles Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Found Texts website: https://cdli.ucla.edu/)
Provenience: Puzri-Dagan (mod. Drehem)
Period:Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period
Dates referenced: Amar-Suen.03.06.00
Material: Clay
Language: Sumerian
Genre: Administrative
Obverse: 1. 5(disz) gu4; 2. erin2 he2-bi2-la-at{ki}; 3. mu-kux(DU) / reverse: 1. iti u5-bi2-gu7; 2. mu us2-sa ma2-dara3-abzu ba-ab-du8; 3. u4 2(u) 3(disz)-kam / left: 1. 5(disz) gu4
Clay Cuneiform tablet.
Purchased by South Dakota State College President Willis E. Johnson from Dr. Edgar J. Banks in 1923.
Transcribed by Dr. Edgar J. Banks in an undated letter: Found at Drehem. A record of the receipt of five oxen apparently for the temple offerings. Also on one edge is written "5 oxen." Dated ca. 2350 B.C.
Description by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, UCLA
Provenience: Puzri-Dagan (mod. Drehem)
Period:Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) period
Dates referenced: Shu-Suen.03.0323 (us2 year) ?
Material: Clay
Language: Sumerian
Genre: Administrative
Obverse: 1. 7(disz) sila4 4(disz) masz2; 2. u4 4(disz)-kam; 3. ki ab-ba-sa6-ga-ta; 4. in-ta-e3-a / reverse; 1. ; 3-dab5; 1 line blank; 2. iti ezem-mah; 3. mu {d}gu-za {d}en-lil2-la2 ba-dim2
. Clay Cuneiform tablet.
Purchased by South Dakota State College President Willis E. Johnson from Dr. Edgar J. Banks in 1923.
Transcribed by Edgar James Banks: Found at Drehem. A temple record, sealed and dated about 2300 B.C.
Description by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, UCLA
Provenience: Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)
Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC) / Date referenced: Shu-Suen.01.00.00
Material: clay
Language: Sumerian
Genre: Administrative
Obverse: 1. 6(disz) {gi}pisan im-sar-ra a2 na-da u4 1(u); 2. 4(disz) {gi}pisan im-sar-ra a2 u4 2(disz)-ta; 3. [...] x gesz da; 4. [...] x/ reverse: 1. ki a-gu-ta; 2. kiszib3 hu-wa-wa; 3. sza3 bala-a; 1 line blank; 4. mu {d}szu-{d}suen lugal / seal 1: 1. lu2-eb-gal;2. dub-sar; 3. dumu ur-ge6-par4; 4. gudu4 {d}inanna
Clay Cuneiform tablet.
Purchased by South Dakota State College President Willis E. Johnson from Dr. Edgar J. Banks in 1923.
Transcribed by Dr. Edgar J. Banks in an undated letter: Found at Jokha, the ruin of the ancient city of Umma in Central Babylonia. >This is a typical record of the temple offerings. After the tablet was written, and while the clay was still soft, the temple scribe rolled over the entire tablet his cylindrical stone seal and the seal impression made it impossible to change the record. The seal impression bears in raised characters the name of the scribe and of his father. It is dated about 2300 B.C.
Description by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, UCLA
- Provenience: Umma (mod. Tell Jokha)
- Period: Ur III (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
- Dates referenced: Iggi-Suen.01.00.00
- Material: clay
- Language: Sumerian
- Genre: Administrative
- Obverse: 1. 1(gesz2)# 4(u)# 3(disz) {gesz#}eme szinig; 3. ki e2-ur2-bi-du10-ta; 4. szabra gu4-ke4; 5. szu ba-ti / reverse: 1. a-sza3 KA da?; 2. kiszib3 nimgir-an-ne2; 3. mu {d}i-bi2-{d}suen lugal#
A handwritten note accompanies the photograph describing Turkey winter and Sheyene flax .
List of the mentors for the Oak Lake Retreat from 1993-2015.
Students and mentors discussing material around a table at the Oak Lake Writers' retreat.
Schedule for the Twentieth anniversary conference during the Oak Lake Tribal Writers' retreat.
Leaf from the Biblia Sacra Latina (Vulgate Bible). Handwritten on vellum. Red and blue chapter numerals and other ornamentation. The work contains wide margins and historiated initials.
Announcement for writing workshops at the 20th anniversary conference during the Oak Lake Tribal Writers' retreat.
Group of writers at the Oak Lake Writers' retreat that includes Charles Woodard and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (front row).
The bylaws and official organization of the Oak Lake Writers' Society .
Poster for the Oak Lake Writer's Society readings at the South Dakota Festival of Book in Lead, South Dakota. Ronya Hoblit, Mabel Picotte, Deanna Stands, Kim TallBear, and Lydia Whirlwind Soilier read from 'He Sappa Woihanble.
List of sessions with Kim Blaeser for handouts at the Tribal Writer's Retreat at Oak Lake, South Dakota.
Frank Denholm
List of dialogue questions for the participants on the L/D/Nakota Interpretations of the River and Lewis & Clark at the Oak Lake Writers' Society retreat.
Correspondence from Charles Woodard regarding a mini grant that titles, "Voices From Along the River,' which focuses on the new perspective on Lewis and Clark.
- 1965 - B.S. University of Sioux Falls
- 1968 - M.Div. Central Baptist Theological Seminary
- 1974 - M.Ed. South Dakota State University
- 1980 - Ed.D. University of South Dakota
- 1980-1990 - Assistant Professor, Education
- 1990-1992 - Professor, Graduate Faculty
- 1992-1996 - Professor, Head of Counseling and Human Resource Development, Graduate Faculty
- 2004-2007 - Associate Dean and Professor, Education and Counseling
- 2007-2010 - Interim Dean and Professor, Education and Counseling
- 2011-2023 - Associate Deam Emeritus of the College of Education and Counseling, Professor Emeritus
Frank and Millie Denholm pose for a photograph during a family reunion in Brookings, South Dakota