PhD Research
Gräff, Andreas – Greek presence in the Ancient Near East between the Neo-assyrian Empire and the end of cuneiform culture
The Disseration aims at discussing all relevant sources for the presence of greek persons in Mesopotamia and Iran and determining the function of these people and changes in the role of greeks in the near east according to cuneiform as Read more…
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Jackson, Samuel (Sydney/Australia) – A comparative look at pre-first-millennium B.C. ancient Near Eastern law collections
The thesis compares various aspects of these collections and attempts to place the differences between them in their cultural/societal context. The results question the assumption of many that the ancient Near East shared a common culture. New insights on the Read more…
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Justel Vicente, Josué-Javier (Zaragoza/Spain) – The Social Position of Women in Syria during the Late Bronze Age
Date of completion: April 25, 2007
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Kapelus, Magdalena(Warsaw/Poland) – Cult of the dead in Hittite Anatolia
I. Introduction. II. Anatolia: 1 Sources philological (texts) and archaeological (cemeteries); 2 Terminology: man (body, soul, spirit), death, to die; 3 Netherworld: a. man after death (body, inhumation, cremation), souls, spirits; b. the way to the Netherworld, the rite Read more…
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Lampasona, Daniele Umberto (Naples/Italy) – Letter-orders in Ur III period (Le letter-order nel periodo Ur III).
In spite of the big number of letter-orders known nowadays (nearly 700), no comprehensive study of this kind of document has been done since the appearance of Sollberger’s TCS 1. The aim of this thesis is to gather all the Read more…
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Lisman, Jan (Leiden/The Netherlands) -Cosmogony, theogony and anthropogeny in Sumerian texts (3000-1600 B.C.E.)
In this research the ideas of the Mesopotamian people with respect to the origin and development of the cosmos, of the gods and of mankind will be studied on the basis of relevant Sumerian myths and other texts and with Read more…
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Patrier, Julie (Strasbourg/France, Venice/Italy) – Conservation et stockage des denrées alimentaires en Anatolie centrale au IIe millénaire av. J.-C.
Cette thèse a pour but de mener une étude sur les habitudes alimentaires des Anciens, notamment sur la façon dont ils se procuraient les ressources nécessaires à leur alimentation ; leurs techniques de stockage et de conservation ; les pratiques Read more…
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Siddall, Luis Robert (Sydney/Australia) – Rethinking the Neo-Assyrian Hiatus: An Historical and Ideological Analysis of the Inscriptions from the reign of Adad-nirari III, King of Assyria (810-783 BCE)
Studies of Assyrian history and royal ideology generally focus on the great kings of the Neo-Assyrian period. This thesis aims to elucidate the political history and ideological principles of a lesser Assyrian monarch, Adad-nirari III. The first part of the Read more…
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Smith, Scobie P. P. (Harvard/USA) – Hurrian Orthographic Interference in Nuzi Akkadian: A Computational Comparative Graphemic Analysis
This study is a focused analysis of Hurrian orthographic influences on the language of the Akkadian dialect of Nuzi, particularly in the expression of stop consonants. Texts examined are those known to belong to scribes of the first generation and Read more…