Dear Mar Shiprim readers, Please join us in congratulating Evelyne Koubková for winning this year’s IAA Dissertation Prize for her dissertation on the Mesopotamian exorcist’s self-presentation. Applications are now open for next year’s prizes. For more information, see https://iaassyriology.com/awards. With best wishes, Pavla Rosenstein Mar Shiprim Editor Congratulations to this year’s Read more
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, This month we meet Prof. Philippa Steele at the University of Cambridge who shares with us the goals and current activities of the VIEWS (Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems) project. With warm wishes, Pavla Rosenstein Mar Shiprim Editor VIEWS (Visual Interactions in Early Writing Read more
List of Publications: January – March 2026 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, 2026. Please get in touch with any corrections or additions via marshiprim@iaassyriology.com. With best wishes, Pavla Read more
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 for 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