The Oriental department of Vienna University (Institut für >Orientalistik Wien) asks for applications for an assistant position in Assyriology (Sumerology, half-time). The call is open but will end mid-march 2014, at the latest. Please pass this information to any suitable candidate. We appreciate especially application with a research schedule in Read more…
lm Fachbereich 07 – Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften, Institut für Altertumswissenschaften -, ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt die Stelle einer Universitätsprofessorin oder eines Universitätsprofessors für Vorderasiatische Archäologie (NF Otto) (Bes.Gr. W 2 LBesG) zu besetzen.Die Stelleninhaberin bzw. der Stelleninhaber soll das Fach in seiner ganzen Breite in Lehre und Forschung vertreten.Die engagierte Mitwirkung der Stelleninhaberin Read more…
The Department of Near Eastern Studies at the Faculty of Philology and Cultural Studies invites applications for a position of University Assistant in the field of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, with a focus on Assyriology (PhD). The position, which is half-time (50{518531fadeb811ae8faec8ba5977a8511c844f925d504d488b0d90b6c297e400}) is offered for the duration of 6 years, Read more…
The Faculty of Philosophy of Heidelberg University invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in Assyriology with a focus on Sumerology, to begin in March 2015. Habilitation or published Ph.D. dissertation and a second book are required. The applicant is expected to cover the entire range of Assyriology in research and Read more…
The Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe” at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, invites applications for Research on the (trans-)formation of religious traditions in the context inter-religious contact during the academic year October 2014 through September 2015. What we can offer: Time and space for research in an Read more…
Cette recherche porte sur l’organisation, l’administration, le recrutement, l’équipement, l’entrainement, les techniques et le matériel de combat ainsi que les missions remplies par l’armée néo-assyrienne. L’objectif principal de ces travaux est de comprendre en quoi la machine de guerre des rois néo-assyriens leur a permis de diriger une grande partie Read more…
The research project aims at clarifying the social organization, the way of living and the relationship with the surrounding environment of the ancient people living in the Zagros Mountains. The attention focuses in particular on the early and mid-1st millennium BC when the interaction between the Mesopotamian lowlands and the Read more…
This research consists of a textual analysis of the political and social interaction between tribes, cities and kingship in times of the Mari cuneiform archive. This interplay, in a socio-economic context of a pastoralist society, is a hallmark of the political developments in Syria-Mesopotamia during the third and second millennia Read more…
This work aims at providing a systematical study of the cult of the Storm-Gods in Anatolia during the 2nd millennium BCE. The first part of the research will focus on the origins of the cult of this deity called Taru and Tarhun(t) in Hittite cuneiform sources but more generally expressed Read more…
The thesis concerns the emergence of the standard weight system in ancient Mesopotamia and is part of the graduate research program ‘Value and Equivalence’ at the University of Frankfurt/Main. Sources under consideration include Sumerian and Akkadian written documents from Archaic, Early Dynastic, and Sargonic periods (c. 3200-2200 BC) of Mesopotamian Read more…