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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Letizia Savino, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Title: Medicine and physicians abroad. Circulation of experts and expertise in the Second Millennium BCE in the Ancient Near East
University: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Supervisor: Doris […]
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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Jessica Marchetti, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology on Humanities Commons 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Title: The god Nergal in the Sumerian-Akkadian texts (2nd-1st millennia BCE) / Le dieu Nergal dans les textes suméro-akkadiens (IIe-Ier millénaires av. J.-C.)
University: Université de Lille
Supervisor: Ph […]
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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Evelyne Koubkova, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology on Humanities Commons 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Title: The Ritual Means of Empowerment of the Mesopotamian Exorcist
University: Yale University
Supervisor: Eckart Frahm
Abstract:
My dissertation examines the ways in which the Mesopotamian […]
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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Anthony P. SooHoo, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology on Humanities Commons 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Title: Violence against the Enemy in Mesopotamian Myth, Ritual, and Historiography
University: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
Supervisor: Beate Pongratz-Leisten
Abstract:
Evidence […]
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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Christie Carr, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology on Humanities Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Title: Conceptualising the Erotic: Metaphor in the Sumerian “Love Songs”
University: University of Oxford
Supervisor: Jacob Dahl
Abstract:
My thesis analyses the metaphor of the Old Babylonian […]
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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Nimrod Madrer, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Title: Existential phrases in Semitic languages
University: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Supervisors: Nathan Wasserman, Steve Fassberg
Abstract: Existential phrases constitute a broad, yet elusive, […]
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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Lola Lombard, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Title: Les éphémérides du Ier millénaire avant J.-C. au Proche-Orient ancien : fonction, production, transmission
University: Université Lumière Lyon 2
Supervisor: Jwana Chahoud
Abstract:
Cette thèse […]
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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Imane Achouche, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Title: The “death” of statues in the Syro-Mesopotamian area during the Bronze Age
University: Université de Liège, Belgium
Supervisor: Laurent Colonna d’Istria
Abstract:
Imane is studying the ” […]
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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Dániel Ligeti, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Title: Healing deities in Mesopotamian and East-Mediterranean Religions
University: Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Supervisor: András Bácskay
Abstract
The subjects of the dissertation are the medi […]
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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Andrew Pottorf, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
Title: Social Stratification in Southern Mesopotamia during the Third Dynasty of Ur (ca. 2100–2000 BCE)
University: Harvard University
Supervisor: Piotr Steinkeller
Abstract
This dissertation a […]
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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Southern Mesopotamian Urbanism, on the site Heather D. Baker on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
Just published:
Baker, H. D. 2022. “The Later Phases of Southern Mesopotamian Urbanism: Babylonia in the Second and First Millennia BC.” Journal of Archaeological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-022-09174-8 -
Heather D Baker wrote a new post, (no title), on the site Heather D. Baker on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
Just Published:
Baker, H. D. 2022. “Reconstructing Ancient Babylon: Myth and Reality.” Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies Journal 14: 15–27. -
Heather D Baker's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Sonia Mazali, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology on Humanities Commons 1 year, 8 months ago
Title: Les prêtresses et prêtres EN du pays de Sumer, de l’empire d’Akkad jusqu’à la chute du royaume de Larsa (2334 – 1763 av. n. è.)
University: Université de Lille
Supervisor: Philippe Abrahami […]
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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Publications, on the site Heather D. Baker on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Just published:
Baker, H. D. 2021. “Babylon.” Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies, edited by Christopher R. Matthews. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021-11-23. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195393361-0291. (peer-reviewed) -
Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Virginia Cara Girardi, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month ago
Title: The Importance of Boat Transport for the Ur III Economy
University: University of Oxford
Supervisor: Professor Jacob L. Dahl
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Using network analysis and similar data approaches to an […] -
Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Mathilde Touillon-Ricci, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
Title: Individuality and Identity in Writing: Personalising Cuneiform Documentation in the New Sumerian and Old Assyrian Periods (21st and 19th Centuries BCE)
University: SOAS-University of London and The B […]
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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Anita Fattori, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
Title: Tissage de la Trame Sociale : Femmes et Réseaux Commerciaux dans L’ancienne Mésopotamie
University: Universidade of São Paulo/Université Paris 1
Supervisors: Prof. Cécile Michel and Prof. Marcel […]
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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Lucrezia Menicatti, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
Title: An Investigation of Repetition and Analogical Reasoning in Mesopotamian Divinatory Literature from the First Millennium B.C.E.
University: Universität Wien
Supervisor: Prof. Nicla de Zorz […]
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Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Babylonian Houses and Housing, on the site Heather D. Baker on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
In Episode 23 of the podcast “Thin End of the Wedge”, I talk with Jon Taylor about Babylonian houses and housing.
“Many of us have spent a lot of time at home this year. What would that have been like in ancie […]
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