The aim of this thesis is to analyze the socio-economic structure of the Urartian state, by using Urartian written sources and archaeological data from excavated sites in eastern Anatolia as well as Armenia and North-West Iran. Date of completion: 30th September 2013
This dissertation studies Akkadian royal letters known only from tablets written after the time in which the letter’s correspondents lived. It will include editions, commentaries and comparisons of the texts in question, comparison with relevant texts outside the corpus, and consideration of questions of historicity and function.
The study aims at illustrating and exploring the idea of sensory perception in Ancient Near Eastern Culture. It shall demonstrate and disclose the emphasis placed on particular senses for the purpose of creating a ranked listing of those senses. For this purpose, the three parts of the study shall cover: Read more…
Wie im gesamten Orient, spielen in Anatolien Textilien eine wichtige Rolle (tägliche Bekleidung, Ehrengewänder, Geschenke u.a.). Da dieses Thema bisher noch nicht monographisch bearbeitet wurde, ist auf jeden Fall grundlegende Forschung zu betreiben und sind wichtige Ergebnisse zu erwarten. Mein Arbeitsplan ist folgendes: 1.Materialaufnahme: Inventare, Ritualtexte, Geschenksliste, Festbeschreibungen, Lexikalische Listen; Read more…
From Herodotus onward, historians tried hard “to reconstruct” a chronology. It was the ancestor of the historical method which then grew richer in information resulting from documents dated in different systems. From the XXth century onward, historians used so-called scientific methods: carbon dating, dendrochronology, astronomy, etc. Although each method has Read more…
According to cuneiform tradition several different types of marks have been placed on both, humans and animals, in Mesopotamia as well as adjacent cultures. In the majority of cases these marks were either applied to slaves, alternatively to livestock in private hands, or to the so-called temple oblates and to Read more…
Tiglath-pileser I was an important Middle Assyrian king who reigned in the late twelfth to early eleventh centuries BCE from his capital city of Assur in northern Mesopotamia. At this time, the Ancient Near East was descending into a “dark age,” when documentation for reconstructing history is fairly scarce. The Read more…
This research project aims at understanding the phenomenon of the wind in the Ancient Mesopotamian world. First, meteorological wind will be examined taking into account modern and ancient records (archaeoclimatology). Secondly, the role of winds in Akkadian and Sumerian literature (mythological, medical, etc.) will be studied. The main purpose of Read more…