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…
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 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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…