PhD Research

Cette recherche porte sur l’organisation, l’administration, le recrutement, l’équipement, l’entrainement, les techniques et le matériel de combat ainsi que les missions remplies par l’armée néo-assyrienne. L’objectif principal de ces travaux est de comprendre en quoi la machine de guerre des rois néo-assyriens leur a permis de diriger une grande partie Read more…

The research project aims at clarifying the social organization, the way of living and the relationship with the surrounding environment of the ancient people living in the Zagros Mountains. The attention focuses in particular on the early and mid-1st millennium BC when the interaction between the Mesopotamian lowlands and the Read more…

This research consists of a textual analysis of the political and social interaction between tribes, cities and kingship in times of the Mari cuneiform archive. This interplay, in a socio-economic context of a pastoralist society, is a hallmark of the political developments in Syria-Mesopotamia during the third and second millennia Read more…

This work aims at providing a systematical study of the cult of the Storm-Gods in Anatolia during the 2nd millennium BCE. The first part of the research will focus on the origins of the cult of this deity called Taru and Tarhun(t) in Hittite cuneiform sources but more generally expressed Read more…

The thesis concerns the emergence of the standard weight system in ancient Mesopotamia and is part of the graduate research program ‘Value and Equivalence’ at the University of Frankfurt/Main. Sources under consideration include Sumerian and Akkadian written documents from Archaic, Early Dynastic, and Sargonic periods (c. 3200-2200 BC) of Mesopotamian Read more…

This PhD research seeks to reconsider the Early Dynastic evidence from the so-called Royal Cemetery and adjacent excavated areas at Ur. The original excavation records stored at the British Museum will be systematically examined in order to clarify the stratigraphy of the site. Also, a bulk of relevant artifacts kept Read more…

Le projet de cette thèse est de présenter de manière concrète comment s’est élaboré puis exercé le droit pénal au Proche-Orient ancien du XXe au XVIe siècle avant notre ère. Ce travail permettra de réunir dans un seul corpus toute la documentation à notre disposition (codes de lois, contrats, procès Read more…

This PhD thesis centers on proposing a more precise reconstruction, than has been available hereto, for the chronology of Assyria in the 13th-12th centuries BCE. Furthermore, the implications of the newly-reconstructed absolute chronology of Assyria for the chronology of other major powers of the Ancient Near East in the 13th Read more…

This doctoral research is a historical analysis of the polity known as the Sealand during its First Dynasty, which appeared in Southern Mesopotamia in the Old Babylonian period and endured until the Early Kassite period. Attention will also be given to the Sealand in the Mesopotamian historiographic tradition. The approach Read more…

Building upon the traditional methods of philological analysis, this dissertation incorporates emerging technologies in text-mining and social network analysis as a new approach for analyzing large blocks of cuneiform text corpora. Working within the Classical period of the Old Akkadian dynasty, the height of Empire’s reach and influence, these digital Read more…