Department of Near Eastern Studies

Three NES students present their research: Morganne Ottobre, “Between Two Cultures: Translation and Multimodality in the Tel Fekheriyeh Inscription” Faith Myrick, “Networking Seals: A Social Network Analysis Approach to Nuzi Cylinder Seals”  Karlene Shippelhoute, “And Whatever You Need Put Down on a Tablet:” Aspects of Clay Temporality and Transformation on the Amarna Tablets”

Archaeological Institute of America – Baltimore Lecture Series presents Lori Khatchadourian (Cornell University), 'Heritage Forensics: Satellites and Specters in the Contested Caucasus'. This talk will be held on Zoom. Link distributed in advance of the talk by email and postedon the AIA events calendar.

Join us for a museum chat presented by Michael Chapin, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Lucas Freire, graduate student.

Three NES students present their research: Alison Wilkinson, “An Unpublished Letter of Agreement from the Liverpool World Museum: O. LWM 55.82.100” Jay Weimar, “Passover, Bulls, Rabbis, and 1 Esdras: Evidence for Multiple Compositional Layers in 2 Chronicles 35:7–9” Laurel Poolman, “Empires, Sheep, and Shepherds: Animal Subsistence at Three Neo-Assyrian Provincial Centers”

Three NES students present their research: Mason Wilkes, “Houses, Neighborhoods, Complaints: An Emergent Topic in Sumerian Proverb Collection 2.” Jay Weimar, “Slobbering Seer or Sympathetic Rain Magic? Insights on the Biblical NṬP-Prophecy from Ancient South Arabian Texts.” Richard Essam, “The Prisms of House F”

The Near Eastern Studies Department is pleased to welcome Alex de Voogt of Drew University for a department lecture titled ‘The Meroitic Script: Five discussions within the history of writing systems’.