Persia and Babylonia: Creating a New Context for Understanding the Emergence of the First World Empire

Project Information

Persia and Babylonia

Grant agreement ID: 682241

DOI 10.3030/682241

Project closed

EC signature date 5 July 2016

Start date 1 January 2017

End date 30 June 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 999 733,00

EU contribution € 1 999 733,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN
Netherlands

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Changing Marriage Practices in Babylonia from the Late Assyrian to the Persian Period

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, Issue 7/2, 2020, Page(s) 101-131, ISSN 2328-9562
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/janeh-2020-0006

Writing History Under Empire: The Babylonian Chronicle Reconsidered

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History, Issue 8/1-2, 2021, Page(s) 279-317, ISSN 2328-9562
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/janeh-2020-0015

“And in the fourth year Egypt rebelled ...” The Chronology of and Sources for Egypt’s Second Revolt (ca. 487–484 BC)

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: Journal of Ancient History, Issue 7/1, 2019, Page(s) 32-61, ISSN 2324-8114
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/jah-2018-0023

The Worst Revolt of the Bisitun Crisis: A Chronological Reconstruction of the Egyptian Revolt under Petubastis IV

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Issue 77/2, 2018, Page(s) 157-173, ISSN 0022-2968
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/699243

Becoming Empire: Neo-Assyrian palaces and the creation of courtly culture

Author(s): Melanie Groß, David Kertai
Published in: Journal of Ancient History, Issue 7/1, 2019, Page(s) 1-31, ISSN 2324-8114
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/jah-2018-0026

On Sippar’s Quay: Cuneiform Tablets with Aramaic Inscriptions from the Böhl Collection in Leiden.

Author(s): Still, B.; Sonnevelt, R.
Published in: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie under vorderasiatische Archäologie, Issue 00845299, 2020, Page(s) 94-110, ISSN 0084-5299
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
DOI: 10.1515/za-2020-0008

Other (52)

Review of Karlsson, M. - Alterity in Ancient Assyrian Propaganda.(State Archives of Assyria Studies 26). Penn State University Press - Eisenbrauns, University Park PA, 2017

Author(s): Ivo Dos Santos Martins
Published in: Bibliotheca Orientalis, Issue 78/1-2, 2021, Page(s) 154-156
Publisher: Peeters

A seal is worth a thousand words

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Gephi Guidelines for Cuneiform Archives, Part 3: Data Preparation for Gephi

Author(s): Maarja Seire
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

"Code of the relational database ""Prosobab. Prosopography of Babylonia (c. 620 - 330 BCE)"

Author(s): Bas van Stein; Caroline Waerzeggers; Melanie Gross; Ivo Dos Santos Martins; Julia Giessler; Lidewij Van de Peut; Maarja Seire; Rieneke Sonnevelt; Evelien Vanderstraeten
Published in: 2022
Publisher: zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6642356

Prosobab

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers; Melanie Gross
Published in: 2022
Publisher: DANS Data Archiving and Networking Services
DOI: 10.17026/dans-zvn-eece

Onomastics training week in Venice: Names, names, names

Author(s): Nicky van de Beek; Maarja Seire
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Bayblonia

Launch of “Prosobab” — Our online prosopographical database of Babylonia (620-330 BCE)

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Gephi Guidelines for Cuneiform Archives, Part 4: Data Import for a 2-mode Network

Author(s): Maarja Seire
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

The revival of the Sippar tablets in the Böhl Collection and the stories they tell

Author(s): Melanie M. Gross
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Een Egyptische mummie in Iran?

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Nemo Kennislink

From Iran with Love

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

How Did Ancient Documents Survive the Test of Time?

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

The historical importance of the Bisitun Inscription

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Een film maken over het Perzische Rijk

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Nemo Kennislink

Architecture, Archaeology, and Iraqi Palaces – An Interview with Dr. David Kertai

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Ode aan de kleine wetenschap

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2017
Publisher: Nemo Kennislink

De (zogenaamde) eerste mensenrechtenverklaring ter wereld

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2017
Publisher: Nemo Kennislink

Gamend door het oude Egypte

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2017
Publisher: Nemo Kennislink

Een web van waarschijnlijkheid

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Nemo Kennislink

Waarom een moordzaak op mijn historische onderzoek lijkt

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Nemo Kennislink

Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg: de geboorte van een vak

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2017
Publisher: Nemo Kennislink

Assyriology: an Alice in Wonderland house – An interview with Dr. Seth Richardson

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2017
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Gamen voor de wetenschap

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2017
Publisher: Nemo Kennislink

Zieke koningen en CSI in de oudheid

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: 2017
Publisher: Nemo Kennislink

3D Scanning a Tablet: The Maštuk Family in Leiden

Author(s): Julia Giessler
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Great Adventures of a Small Clay Tablet: LB 1326

Author(s): Lidewij van de Peut
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

The de Liagre Böhl Collection

Author(s): Lidewij van de Peut
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Archives in Context – an outreach initiative of the “Persia & Babylonia” project

Author(s): Melanie Groß
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Tappašar and the death of her husband

Author(s): Lidewij van de Peut
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

A Pending Silver Payment: The Cuneiform Tablet LB 1709

Author(s): Melanie Groß
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Getting to know the Babylonians: Tappašar and the death of her husband

Author(s): Lidewij van de Peut
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Across the Ocean – A trip to the USA in the service of Assyriology

Author(s): Melanie Groß
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Mesopotamia in Marburg: The 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale

Author(s): Maarja Seire
Published in: 2017
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Social Network Analysis and Cuneiform Archives

Author(s): Maarja Seire
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

The Egibi/Nūr-Sîn archive

Author(s): Maarja Seire
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

An Ancient Near Eastern Scholarly Hub in the Capital of the Alps

Author(s): Evelien Vanderstraeten
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Metal, Object, Measure and Cash. Silver in First Millennium BCE Babylonia

Author(s): Ivo Dos Santos Martins
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

The Hunt for Cuneiform Tablets: 19th Century Illicit Digs at Borsippa

Author(s): Evelien Vanderstraeten
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

3D scanning and the future of clay tablets

Author(s): Nicky van de Beek
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Of Museums, Foxes… and Cuneiform

Author(s): Ivo Dos Santos Martins
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Traders, Travellers, Treasure hunters and the birth of Near Eastern Archaeology

Author(s): Evelien Vanderstraeten
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Game of Thrones: conspiracy, treason and murder in Neo-Assyrian times!

Author(s): Evelien Vanderstraeten
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Finding Sepharvaim and Its Tablets: Hormuzd Rassam’s Crowning Achievement

Author(s): Ivo Dos Santos Martins
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Ancient Archival Practices

Author(s): Ivo Dos Santos Martins
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

António de Gouveia and the Fascination with Persepolis

Author(s): Ivo Dos Santos Martins
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Libraries and Archives: Solo or Ensemble?

Author(s): Ivo Dos Santos Martins
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Iran in Assen… An “intentional” exhibition?

Author(s): Ivo Dos Santos Martins
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Gephi Guidelines for Cuneiform Archives, Part 2: Cleaning Your Dataset

Author(s): Maarja Seire
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Gephi Guidelines for Cuneiform Archives, Part 1: Acquiring a Dataset via Prosobab

Author(s): Maarja Seire
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

"""Say eqidu!"" click-clack! Photography in Assyriology"

Author(s): Ivo Martins
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Gephi Guidelines for Cuneiform Archives, Part 5: Transforming a 2-mode Network into a 1-mode Network

Author(s): Maarja Seire
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

100 jaar assyriologie in Leiden

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Persia and Babylonia

Book chapters (9)

Babylonian Entrepreneurs

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire, Vol. 2, 2021, Page(s) 993–1004, ISBN 9781119071860
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
DOI: 10.1002/9781119071860.ch69

‘The total of the crown prince’s revenues’: record-keeping in the Neo-Assyrian palaces

Author(s): Melanie M. Gross
Published in: Accounts and Bookkeeping in the Ancient World, ed. A. Jördens and U. Yiftach, 2020, Page(s) 36-50, ISBN 9783447111980
Publisher: Harrassowitz

Priestly Courses and the Administration of Time in Neo-Babylonian Temples

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: Contextualizing Jewish Temples, 2021, Page(s) 23-48, ISBN 9789004444799
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004444799_004

Craftsmen in the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Author(s): Melanie Groß
Published in: What’s in a Name? Terminology related to the Work Force and Job Categories in the Ancient Near East, 2018, Page(s) 369–395
Publisher: Ugarit

The Prayer of Nabonidus in the light of Hellenistic Babylonian Literature

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: Jewish Cultural Encounters in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern World, 2017, Page(s) 65-74
Publisher: Brill

The network of resistance: archives and political action in Babylonia before 484 BCE

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: Xerxes and Babylonia: The Cuneiform Evidence, 2018, Page(s) 89-133
Publisher: Peeters

Introduction: Debating Xerxers’ Rule in Babylonia

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: Xerxes and Babylonia: The Cuneiform Evidence, 2018, Page(s) 1-18
Publisher: Peeters

Palavra e Imagem: o papel de António de Gouveia e do séc. XVII na redescoberta de Persépolis e da escrita cuneiforme

Author(s): Ivo Martins
Published in: El Próximo Oriente antiguo y el Egipto faraónico en España y Portugal: Viajeros, pioneros, coleccionistas, instituitiones y recepción, 2020, Page(s) 29-47, ISBN 9788491684190
Publisher: Universitat de Barcelona

The day before Cyrus entered Babylon

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: Individuals and Institutions in the Ancient Near East: A Tribute to Ran Zadok. SANER, Issue 27, 2021, Page(s) 79–88, ISBN 9781501514661
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9781501514661-002

Non-peer reviewed articles (10)

Review of Yamada, Neo-Assyrian Sources in Context. Thematic Studies of Textsm History and Culture (2018)

Author(s): Melanie M. Gross
Published in: Bibliotheca Orientalis, Issue 00061913, 2020, Page(s) 110-114, ISSN 0006-1913
Publisher: Peeters

An unfinished duplicate of a marriage contract from the reign of Darius I

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, Issue 2021/119, 2021, Page(s) 280-281, ISSN 0989-5671
Publisher: Sepoa

Review of Bruno Jacobs / Wouter F. M. Henkelman / Matthew W. Stolper (Hgg.): Die Verwaltung im Achämenidenreich / Administration in the Achaemenid Empire

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: Sehepunkte, Issue 18/7, 2018, ISSN 1618-6168
Publisher: Sehepunkte

‘Persianism’: een overbodig -isme? Bespreking van: Persianism in Antiquity, geredigeerd door Rolf Strootman en Miguel John Versluys

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, Issue 131/2, 2018, Page(s) 353-355, ISSN 2352-1163
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Licht op de Babylonische ballingschap

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: Met Andere Woorden, Issue 37/1, 2018, Page(s) 46-55, ISSN 0168-1869
Publisher: Nederlands Bijbelgenootschap

Herodotus, Xerxes en de Babylonische opstanden van 484 v. Chr.

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: Phoenix, Issue 63/2, 2017, Page(s) 48-61, ISSN 0031-8329
Publisher: Peeters

Review of Beckman, G., The babilili-ritual from Hattusa (CTH 718)

Author(s): Lidewij van de Peut
Published in: Bibliotheca Orientalis, Issue 75/3-4, 2018, ISSN 0006-1913
Publisher: Peeters

Collations of CUSAS 28

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: NABU, Issue 3, 2017, Page(s) 154-158, ISSN 0989-5671
Publisher: Société pour l'Étude du Proche-Orient Ancien

Slechte pers: Nadruk op Griekse bronnen vervormde geschiedenis Perzische Rijk

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: Kleio. Tijdschrift van de vereniging van docenten in geschiedenis en staatsinrichting in Nederland, Issue 60, 2019, Page(s) 24-27, ISSN 0165-6449
Publisher: VGN

"""The Revolt of Babylon"" Revisited: The Value of Pap. Amherst 63’s Literary Tale within its Contemporary Context"

Author(s): Uzume Z. Wijnsma
Published in: Hortus Orientalis, Issue 1, 2017, Page(s) 29-58, ISSN 0000-0000
Publisher: Stichting Hortus Orientalis

Monographic books (3)

Xerxes and Babylonia: The Cuneiform Evidence

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers, Maarja Seire
Published in: 2018
Publisher: Peeters

De wilde jeugd der assyriologie

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: 2017
Publisher: Leiden University

At the Heart of an Empire: The Royal Household in the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Author(s): Melanie M. Gross
Published in: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 2020, ISBN 9789042940734
Publisher: Peeters

Conference proceedings (3)

Der königliche Hof in neuassyrischer Zeit

Author(s): Melanie Groß
Published in: Der Palast im antiken und islamischen Orient. 9. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 30. März – 1. April 2016, Frankfurt am Main, 2019, Page(s) 61-71
Publisher: Harrassowitz

Manuscript and archive: who wrote and read Babylonian chronicles?

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: Conceptualizing past, present and future : proceedings of the ninth symposium of the Melammu Project held in Helsinki/Tartu, May 18-24, 2015, 2018, Page(s) 335–346
Publisher: Ugarit

Digital Prosopography of Babylonia: New Horizons

Author(s): Caroline Waerzeggers
Published in: Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue. Volume 1: Sessions 1, 2, and 5 from the Conference Broadening Horizons 6 held at the Freie Universität Berlin, 24-28 June 2019, 2021, Page(s) 81-96
Publisher: Archaeopress