Dear Mar Shiprim Readers, Over the next two months, we will take a virtual trip to Iraq, first to visit the Girsu Project in Tello, and next month to learn more about the upcoming RAI 71 in Baghdad. We thank Dr. Sébastien Rey for this month’s insights into excavation, conservation Read more
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, See below for new titles in Assyriology and related fields shared through the Agade mailing list between October 1st and December 31st, 2025. Please get in touch with any corrections or additions via marshiprim@iaassyriology.com. With best wishes, Pavla Rosenstein Mar Shiprim Editor List of Publications: Read more
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, As 2025 draws to a close, we thank the team at the Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary (LAD) for sharing their work on this exciting seventeen-year lexicography project. With best wishes for the holiday season and the new year ahead, Pavla Rosenstein Mar Shiprim Editor In the Read more
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, See below for new titles in Assyriology and related fields shared through the Agade mailing list between July 1st and September 30th, 2025. Please get in touch with any corrections or additions via marshiprim@iaassyriology.com. With best wishes, Pavla Rosenstein Mar Shiprim Editor Arkhipov, I., Bennett, Read more
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, This month we thank Dr. Sergio Alivernini for taking the time to tell us about the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, fresh after this year’s 70th Rencontre in Prague. Wishing everyone a good start to the academic year, Pavla Rosenstein Mar Shiprim Editor Read more
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, Please join us in congratulating Adeline Reynaud, laureate of this year’s IAA Dissertation Prize, Jonathan Beltz,, laureate for this year’s Best Article of an Early Career Scholar Prize and Andrew Pottorf, runner up for the Best Article of an Early Career Scholar Prize. Applications are now Read more
The Call for Applications for the Getty Research Institute’s 2026-27 residential grant opportunity under the theme of Provenance opens July 1, and are due by October 1, 2025 by 5pm PT. See below for further information and how to apply. For the 2026–2027 year, the Getty Scholars Program invites innovative Read more
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, This month we thank Rune Rattenborg & Émilie Pagé-Perron for creating an introductory primer for using the CDLI to browse, search, edit and cite artifacts uploaded to the platform by a team of volunteers going back to three generations of scholars. We hope this primer will Read more
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, See below for new titles in Assyriology and related fields shared through the Agade mailing list between January 1st and March 31st, 2025. Please get in touch with any corrections or additions via marshiprim@iaassyriology.com. With best wishes, Pavla Rosenstein Mar Shiprim Editor Alivernini, S., Bramanti, Read more
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, This month we thank Prof. Mathieu Ossendrijver for sharing updates from the ZODIAC project funded by the European Research Council and hosted at Freie Universität Berlin. The ZODIAC project’s interdisciplinary approach seeks to develop an updated account of the emergence and cross-cultural impact of zodiacal astral Read more