With thanks to Lidewij E. van de Peut The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) organised on December 1st 2014 ZAGROS, a mini-conference on recent archaeological research conducted in the Kurdish Region of Iraq. Of course the archaeological project of NINO on the Rania Plain, at the foot of the Zagros, was the inspiration […]
On behalf of Jim Eisenbraun: Dear members of the International Association for Assyriology, Eisenbrauns is very happy to announce that the latest proceedings of the Rencontre, RAI 57 = Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East, edited by Alfonso Archi, is being published this week. As a member of the IAA, you are eligible […]
Anatolica 40. (2014). NINO: Leiden. Aruz, J., Graff, S. and Rakic, Y. (eds) (2014) A Third-Millennium Miscellany of Cuneiform Texts. Assyria to Iberia. CDL Press: Bethesda, Maryland. Bieliński, P., Gawlikowski, M., Koliński, R., Ławecka, D., Sołtysiak, A. and Wygnańska, Z. (eds) (2014) Proceedings of the 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near […]
As some of you may have noticed, both the IAA website and the Mār Šiprim-website, have been inaccessible for a while from some locations; especially in the United States. We have been working hard to solve this problem, and as it seems at the moment, the websites are now accessible again. If for whatever reason […]
IAA Prizes and Awards We would like to remind everyone that the entry deadline for the awards and prizes of 2015, is coming up. All applications have to be entered by MARCH 1st 2015. To further encourage young researchers to engage with the scientific community, the IAA, in cooperation with other parties, has started some […]
Dear IAA-members, a new year has started, and with that a new membership year for the IAA. Some of you may have already received an email about the payment of the IAA membership fees for 2013 and 2014, but we would like to remind everyone again to pay their dues for 2015. The IAA has […]
Rencontre 2015, Geneva and Bern From June 22 to June 26th, the 61st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale will take place, hosted by the universities of Geneva and Bern. (Please be reminded that IAA-members receive a discount on Rencontre entrance-fees!). The first circular has been published by the organizing committee, with information on this year’s theme, papers, […]
Alexandra Kleinerman is a faculty research associate in the Jonathan and Jeannette Ancient Near Eastern Studies Tablet Collection at Cornell University. She is collaborating with Prof. Alhena Gadotti (Towson University) to publish close to 800 Old Babylonian Sumerian scribal exercise texts currently housed at Cornell. These exercises are primarily lexical, and so represent the elementary […]
By: Merel Brüning, research assistant to Dr. Bleda Düring In 2011, Dr. Bleda Düring of the Faculty of Archaeology in Leiden, obtained a European Research Council Starting Grant for his project “Consolidating Empire – Reconstructing Hegemonic Practices of the Middle Assyrian Empire at the Late Bronze Age Fortified Estate of Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria, ca. […]
“I’d like to think that the living Aboriginal culture makes Australians more curious to investigate the ancient world, both in terms of Australian history and world history” Can you tell the readers something about yourself? I grew up in Sydney, and in a country region of Australia; my final years […]