Ettalene M. Grice
Ettalene M. Grice | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 25, 1887 Portsmouth, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | December 4, 1927 (age 40) Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Other names | Ettaline Grice |
| Occupation(s) | Educator, curator, scholar |
Ettalene Mears Grice (March 25, 1887 – December 4, 1927) was an American educator, curator, and scholar of ancient Assyria and Babylonia. In 1917, she was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in Assyriology at Yale University, and was acting curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection from 1925 to 1926.
Early life and education
[edit]Grice was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, the daughter of William Barrett Grice and Louise J. Tomlinson Grice.[1] Her father was a lawyer.[2] She graduated from Portsmouth High School, and in 1908 from the Western College for Women,[3][4] and pursued further studies in Biblical literature at Bryn Mawr College from 1912 to 1914. She completed doctoral studies in 1917, and was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in Assyriology at Yale.[5] Her dissertation was titled "Tablets from Ur and Larsa, Dated in the Larsa Dynasty."[4][6]
Career
[edit]Grice taught school in Ohio from 1908 to 1912. She was the Alexander Kohut Research Fellow at Yale from 1919 to 1925,[7] working as assistant to curator and professor Albert T. Clay,[8] and lecturing on Assyria. She was assistant professor of Assyriology and Babylonian literature.[9] She was acting curator of Yale's Babylonian Collection from 1925 to 1926.[5][10] As Clay's assistant, she worked on several large projects, including a "Historical Palaeography of Babylonia and Assyria", which was "a dreary, endless task, but Miss Grice embarked upon it with patience and competence," according to a recent historian.[8]
Publications
[edit]- Records from Ur and Larsa, Dated in the Larsa Dynasty (1919, her dissertation)[6]
- Chronology of the Larsa Dynasty (1919)[11][12]
- "In Memoriam Albert T. Clay" (1925)[13]
Personal life
[edit]Grice's widowed father lived with her in Connecticut.[8] He moved back to Ohio[2] after she died suddenly in 1927, at the age of 40, in Hartford, Connecticut.[14][15]
References
[edit]- ^ "Last Rites for Miss Ettaline Grice Will be Held Thursday; Class Will Attend in Body". The Portsmouth TImes. December 7, 1927. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Retired Attorney Dies on Monday". Madison County Democrat. February 21, 1933. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Students' Volunteer Convention". The Indianapolis News. March 1, 1906. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Yale University Graduate School (1920). Alumnae, 1894-1920. p. 20.
- ^ a b "Curators, Babylonian Collection". Yale University. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ^ a b Grice, Ettalene Mears. Records from Ur and Larsa Dated in the Larsa Dynasty (Yale University Press 1919).
- ^ "Increases Endowment of Kohut Fellowship". The Lewiston Daily Sun. October 29, 1928. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c Foster, Benjamin (2023-09-01). From New Haven to Nineveh and Beyond: Three Centuries of Near Eastern Learning at Yale. Lockwood Press. pp. 296–320, quote on page 297. ISBN 978-1-957454-92-4.
- ^ "Ettalene M. Grice of Yale Faculty Dead". Morning Union. December 6, 1927. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Stephens, Ferris J. (1962). "History of the Babylonian Collection". The Yale University Library Gazette. 36 (3): 126–132. ISSN 0044-0175.
- ^ Hussey, Mary I. (1920). "Books on Babylonia and Its Relation to Western Asia". The Harvard Theological Review. 13 (3): 296–301. ISSN 0017-8160.
- ^ Grice, Ettalene Mears (1920). Chronology of the Larsa Dynasty. AMS Press. ISBN 978-0-404-60274-1.
- ^ Montgomery, James A.; Grice, Ettalene M. (1925). "In Memoriam Albert T. Clay". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 45: 289–300. ISSN 0003-0279.
- ^ "Miss Ettalene M. Grice". The New York Times. December 6, 1927. p. 29.
- ^ "Miss Ettalene Grice, Former Resident of Portsmouth, Dies in Hartford; Burial Here". The Portsmouth Times. December 6, 1927. p. 17 – via Newspapers.com.