The Faculty of Philosophy of Heidelberg University invites applications for a Full Professorship (W3) in Assyriology with a focus on Sumerology, to begin in March 2015. Habilitation or published Ph.D. dissertation and a second book are required. The applicant is expected Read more…
The Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe” at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, invites applications for Research on the (trans-)formation of religious traditions in the context inter-religious contact during the academic year October 2014 through September 2015. What Read more…
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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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 Read more…