Dear Mar Shiprim readers, We hope your 2024 has been off to a good start! In resuming our regular programming, we offer you new titles in Assyriology and related fields shared through the Agade mailing list between September 1st and December 31st in 2023. Please let us know via marshiprim@iaassyriology.com, Read more…
Congratulations to this year’s IAA prize winners! by Pavla Rosenstein Two dissertation prize winners for 2023 This year’s dissertation prize was awarded to two winners, Clélia Paladre for “Les sceaux-cylindres proto-élamites: productions d’un phénomène revisité” and Tomoki Kitazumi for “Übersetzungstätigkeit und Übersetzungsverfahren im hethitischen Reich.” Paladre, who completed her Read more…
Change of editor At the 68th RAI held in Leiden we announced that Stefania Ermidoro is retiring from her role as Editor of Mar Shiprim. Since taking up the post in 2019, Stefania led several wonderful initiatives to bridge the gap between the various disciplines in Ancient Near Eastern Studies Read more…
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, we are back with our column entitled “In the Spotlight”! This time, we travel to Argentina: thanks to Federico Luciani, to whom we are very grateful, we can learn more about what’s going at the Universidad Nacional de Litoral in Santa Fe, and elsewhere in Argentina. Read more…
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, happy 2023! We celebrate the New Year offering you our list of recent publications in the fields of Assyriology and Mesopotamian Archaeology. Below you can find titles that have been notified in the Agade mailing list between October, 1st and December, 31th 2022. Please write to Read more…
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, we are very happy to introduce to you a project which, we believe, will be of great interest to many of us! The “Virtual Cuneiform Tablet Reconstruction (VCTR) Project” is an international collaboration inspired by the ambition to support virtual access to cuneiform artefacts and to Read more…
Directly from Jack M. Sasson’s Agade mailing list, here we offer you a list of recent publications in the fields of Assyriology and Mesopotamian Archaeology. Please note that this list only includes titles that have been notified between July, 1st and September, 30th 2022. Feel free to contact us at Read more…
Did you know that the Ancient Near East can be found also.. in Kentucky? Learn everything about it in this new contribution, sent to us by Christy Spurlock – to whom we are indeed very grateful! She nicely shows us how Universities and Museums can cooperate to create activitites that Read more…
As every Assyriologist now, July is the month of the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale! This year we will finally meet again in Mainz, thanks to our hosts: the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. We are grateful to the RAI organizers, who have sent Read more…
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, while we head into the summer months, we are back with a new list of recent publications in the fields of Assyriology and Mesopotamian Archaeology. Please note that this list only includes titles that have been notified by Jack M. Sasson’s Agade mailing list between April, Read more…