Ari Kai-Browne - "Dreidimensionale Erfassung der Siedlungsentwicklung der Fundstätte Kale Tepe bei Gönen, Isparta und ihrer weiteren Umgebung - ein Beitrag zur landschaftsarchäologischen Methodenentwicklung"

Courts and Courtiers in the Neo-Elamite Period

It will be the main aim of this research to dissect the manifold segments of the Elamite court (ca. 1000-550 BCE). Beyond offering a mere list of official ranks extant in a hierarchical system and examine them from a linguistic point of view, all these, wherever possible, will be investigated as ...

Cultural DNA: Cultural Identity in Sumerian Literature

Die "Names and Professions List"

The dissertation project investigates the "Names and Professions List". This list is known through representatives from Fāra and Tell Abū Ṣalābīḫ (FD IIIa or Fāra, ca. 2575-2475 BC) and the Palace Archive of Ebla (ca. 2360-2310 BC) and is attributed to the North Babylonian list tradition. ...

Iranian Gods in The Persepolis Fortification Archive: Mesopotamia, Elam, and the Indo-Iranian Tradition

The proposed study aims to illustrate the position of Iranian gods in the Achaemenid pantheon and will serve as a basis for the ongoing research on that Pantheon, which up to now has been mainly focused on its Elamite divinities. Using the Persepolis Fortification Archive as the main source for ...

Roslyn Sorensen - "Identifying Factors Contributing to the Formation of the Hittite State in Bronze Age Central Anatolia"

Studies on the Huwaššanna Texts

The proposed dissertation will present an extensive group of texts from the Hittite corpus which has so far never been subject to philological study. Since the discovery of the sources in Hittite language at the beginning of the 20th century, several thousand texts have come to light which ...

The Recontextualization of Standardized Knowledge: The Case of the Old Babylonian Legal Phrasebooks

Babylonia in the 2nd millennium BC witnessed a process of textualization of epistemic knowledge. As, for example, in the cuneiform sign lists, the process has its roots in the very beginnings of the cuneiform tradition. The Old Babylonian Period, however, also sees the rise of multithematic ...

The global ritual knowledge and the local ritual schools in the Hittite tradition

Magical texts preserved in Hittite archives (16 th - 13 th century BC) testify the intense cultural exchange, that took place in Anatolia since early times. These documents show several cultural influences which originated both from Anatolian regions and from outside the core of the Hittite ...