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 30, 2024. Please get in touch with any corrections or suggestions via marshiprim@iaassyriology.com. Wishing everyone a happy summer! Pavla Rosenstein Mar Shiprim Editor Béranger, Read more
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, With less than a month to go till the 69th Rencontre in Helsinki, we speak to University of Helsinki’s Prof. Saana Svärd about the inspiration behind the theme ‘Politics, Peoples, and Polities in the Ancient Near East,’ the organising process, and the highlights that this year’s Read more
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, Please allow us to introduce a new series, whereby we invite a specialist to provide a primer for their area of expertise, featuring accessible introductory information for scholars who wish to embark on research in a particular sub-field. We thank Dr. Erica Scarpa from the Institute Read more
This month we speak to curator Dr. Agnete Lassen about the Yale Babylonian Collection’s first permanent exhibition space at the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, Connecticut. Interview, images and video by Pavla Rosenstein ____ What has been your path towards Assyriology and your current role? I have my degree Read more
Dear Mar Shiprim readers, Please see below a list of new titles in Assyriology and related fields shared through the Agade mailing list between January 1st and March 31st in 2024. Please get in touch with any corrections or suggestions via marshiprim@iaassyriology.com Pavla Rosenstein Ambos, C., Heeßel, N. P., Read more
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