The Dean of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw invites applications for the position of a postdoctoral researcher in the WEAVE-Unisono project “DigEanna: Digitalization of the Eanna Archive” directed by Michael Jursa (project coordinator, Vienna), Johannes Hackl (Jena), and Małgorzata Sandowicz (Warsaw). The successful candidate will join the Warsaw team at the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies of the Faculty of Oriental Studies.

 

Duration of employment: 36 months, starting on 1 October 2024 or shortly thereafter

 Requirements

  • PhD in the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, received no earlier than seven years prior to employment on the project, from an institution other than the University of Warsaw (alternatively, a candidate who has received their PhD in the University of Warsaw and spent at least 10 months in another academic institution)
  • outstanding knowledge of the Neo-Babylonian dialect of Akkadian and the history and culture of first-millennium BCE Babylonia
  • experience in working with cuneiform tablets and their photos
  • experience in database management
  • excellent command of English, oral and written
  • creativity and teamwork skills

 Duties

  • digitalizing and classifying cuneiform documents
  • assembly of prosopographic data
  • research visits to museums
  • publication of academic papers related to the project’s theme
  • co-organization of workshops and scholarly meetings
  • disseminating project results

Salary: 12,000 PLN gross per month (for costs of living in Warsaw, see: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Warsaw, https://welcome.uw.edu.pl/before-you-arrive/living-costs/)

 

How to apply

Please send the below-listed documents by email to: m.e.sandowicz@uw.edu.pl

Deadline for applications: 14 June 2024. Successful candidates will be notified by the end of June 2024.

 

Project description

The Babylonian cuneiform tablets conventionally labeled as the ‘Eanna temple archive’ represent one of the most important text groups from Ancient Babylonia, and they are arguably the most multifaceted collection of archival material from the best documented period of Babylonian history, the long sixth century. Numerous preceding studies notwithstanding, no truly comprehensive investigation of these texts as a body of documentary data, as an ‘archive’, has ever been attempted. DigEanna will close this knowledge gap. Building on previous large-scale projects and significant collections of pertinent data, making full use of pertinent digital methodologies and aligning itself with relevant data-gathering Digital Humanities projects, the project will break new ground in the study of Iron Age Babylonia and the Ancient World in general.

For more details, see https://konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl/api/document/2797/datafile/pdf. In case of further questions, contact Małgorzata Sandowicz at m.e.sandowicz@uw.edu.pl.