Die kulturelle und ethnische Identität von Griechen in den Gesellschaften Mesopotamiens und seiner Nachbarregionen

Diplomazia e propaganda in epoca imperiale ittita

The dissertation aims to examine formal and practical aspects of diplomacy and propaganda in the period of the Hittite empire in order to provide a fuller picture of the cultural and ideological history of the Near East in the Late Bronze Age. In addition, the study is meant to lead to a better ...

Forms of Expressing Dimensionality in Hurrian

The project "Forms of Expressing Dimensionality in Hurrian", conducted within the research cluster 264 TOPOI as part of the graduate student group "The Conception of Spaces in Language" (C-I-1), aimed to investigate the systematic interaction of linguistic coding of spatial relationships in ...

Johannes Bach - On the Transtextual Poetics of Assyrian Royal-Narrative Texts

The dissertation project attempts to apply the transtextual theory of Gérard Genette to the field of Assyrian royal inscriptions and related narrative texts. One of the aims is to understand their formation as a literary history of derivations from earlier texts and to define the repertoire of ...

L’amministrazione dei giardini (ĝeškiri6) a Ĝirsu durante il periodo neosumerico (Administration of Gardens (ĝeškiri6) in Ĝirsu during the Neo-Sumerian Period)

The dissertation covers the organization and administration of gardens, Sumerian ĝeš kiri 6 , in the province of Ĝirsu during the Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 2112–2004 v. Chr.). The gardens, including palm gardens and orchards, were an important economic source for Mesopotamian ...

Multilingualism and Multiscriptualism in the Transmission of the Hittite Empire

The archives of the Hittite capital at Hattuša is characterized by an unusual variety of structurally quite diverse languages (Sumerian, Akkadian, Hurrian, Hittite, Luvian, Palaic, and Hattic). Some of these languages found written form for the first time through the works of Hittite scholars, ...

Nerik: A Cultic Center in Northern Anatolia in the Hittite Period and Its Survival

The dissertation examines the written sources for the Hittite city of Nerik in Northern Anatolia, which has for many years been connected with the site of Oymaağaç Höyük. Nerik is referred to in countless texts of various genres, most of which come from the Hittite capital at Ḫattuša ...

Netanel Anor - "'The Babylonian Extispicy Rituals: Theory and Practice"

Persuading the Divine: The Emergence and Development of Hittite Prayers

The Hittite prayers, which are often very long and personal in style and content, are the focus of this PhD research. The main goal of the prayers was to ask the addressee(s) for help of some kind. Therefore, it is possible to study these texts as rhetorical monologues intended to persuade the ...

Studies on Scribal Culture in Mesopotamia in the 1st Millenium BC

The dissertation examines the production and producers of Ancient Near Easter scribal culture. The materiality of scribal products plays an important role in the investigation. The study examines various aspects of scribal cultural: the appearance of tablets inscribed with cuneiform, the ...

Study of Cuneiform Texts from the Third Dynasty of Ur

The Third Dynasty of Ur lasted for nearly a century (2112-2004 B.C). Five Sumerian kings ruled this dynasty and their reigns witnessed prosperity in all aspects of life; political, administrative, economic, architectural, artistry and literary. Thousands of Ur III cuneiform texts were scattered ...

Talbot's Tools

The dissertation examines the question of how handwritten notes functioned in the context of the humanities, particularly through philological notation and research. Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877), known today primarily as a pionier in the field of photomechanical methods, was a typical Victorian ...

The Aleppo hinterland

This dissertation is an attempt to provide a picture as complete as possible of the Aleppo hinterland in Antiquity from a combined archaeological and historical point of view. Specifically, the present work stems from the need to provide a wider context to one of the most important archaeological ...

The Practice of Body Marking in Akkadian Texts of the 2nd and 1st Millennia

The dissertation project will examine the Akkadian evidence for tattooing, branding, and other forms of markingand modifying the body. In contrast to the Sumerian sources, the considerable evidence from more recent Mesopotamian sources has never been subject to a systematic investigation. The ...

Translation and Translation Techniques in the Hittite Empire

The dissertation will show how scribes in the Hittite empire dealt with the practice of "translation". Though the practice of translation in neighboring Mesopotamia has long been known, there are few areas of the ancient world in which scribes were so regularly and intensively confronted with ...

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