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

Genre and Cities in the Sumerian City Laments

The five texts, commonly referred to as the Sumerian city laments, detail the destruction of different Sumerian cities, particularly Ur, Nippur, Uruk, and Eridu. This dissertation will compare the similarities and differences between these texts, and between the laments and Sumerian literary texts ...

Governing Water: Legal Practice and Water Management in Southern Mesopotamia

My doctoral research focuses on water law and management in ancient Mesopotamia, from the Ur III to the Old Babylonian period, as documented in a wide range of administrative and legal sources, including law collections, contracts, archival records, and inscriptions. Together, these sources enable ...

Identifying Factors Contributing to the Formation of the Hittite State in Bronze Age Central Anatolia

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 ...

Studien zu den Huwaššanna-Texten

In der geplanten Arbeit soll eine umfangreiche Textgruppe aus dem hethitischen Schrifttum vorgelegt werden, die bisher noch nicht philologisch aufgearbeitet wurde. Seit der Entdeckung der Quellen in hethitischer Sprache zu Beginn des 20. Jhs. kamen mehrere Tausend Tontafeln ans Licht, die uns ...

The Hydrography of Lagash during the Early Dynastic IIIb/Pre-Sargonic period (c. 2475-2315 BC)

Royal inscriptions and archival documents from the Pre-Sargonic city- or petty state of Lagash (c. 2475–2315 BC) offer the earliest cuneiform evidence of an advanced irrigation system. These sources offer valuable insights into the location, structure, construction, use and maintenance of canal ...

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 ...