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, This month we thank Prof. Paul-Alain Beaulieu for shining a light on The Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations (NMC) at the University of Toronto in Canada. Are there other institutions hosting scholars in Assyriology and related fields about which you would like to learn 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
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, See below for new titles in Assyriology and related fields shared through the Agade mailing list between April 1st and June 30th, 2025. Please get in touch with any corrections or additions via marshiprim@iaassyriology.com. With best wishes, Pavla Rosenstein Mar Shiprim Editor Abed B. and Read more
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, This month we thank Jana Mynářová at Charles University in Prague for talking to us about Czech Assyriology’s past, present and future ahead of the 70th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (RAI), taking place in Prague 7th – 11th July this year. Looking forward to seeing you there! 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