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Kınık Höyük on the cover of the first issue of Near Eastern Archaeology 2020
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 04/07/2020
The cover of the current issue of Near Eastern Archaeology features a view of the ongoing excavations at Niğde-Kınık Höyük (N-KH) under the volcanos of south Cappadocia, Turkey.
Several ISAW members are co-authors of the paper published in the journal:
Lorenzo d’Alfonso is an Associate Professor of archaeology and history of ancient Western Asia at ISAW-NYU and at Pavia University. He has directed the N-KH Archaeological Project since 2011.
Roberta Casagrande is a classical archaeologist and a research affiliate at ISAW-NYU and directs fieldwork of Sector E1 at N-KH .
Lorenzo Castellano is a PhD candidate at ISAW-NYU, currently writing his dissertation on the second and first millennia BCE central Anatolian agropastoral economies. Since 2015 he has directed the fieldwork on the Southern Slope of N-KH (Operation C)
Andrea Trameri is completing his PhD on the history of the kingdom of Kizzuwatna at ISAW-NYU and has directed excavations at N-KH in Sector A1 2013-18.
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ISAW Alumna Dr. Irene Soto Marín Accepts Joint Position at the University of Michigan
by Iris Fernandez | 04/07/2020
We are delighted to congratulate ISAW alumna Dr. Irene Soto Marín, who has accepted a joint position at the University of Michigan as Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Assistant Curator at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
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New Publication on Teaching with Digital Tools available for Download
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 03/26/2020
As many colleges and universities around the United States and around the world move to remote teaching in response to COVID-19, ISAW can share news of the publication of the volume DATAM: Digital Approaches to Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean, edited by Clinical Associate Professor Sebastian Heath. DATAM publishes papers presented at a conference of the same name that took place at ISAW in October of 2018 and that was co-organized by ISAW's Associate Director for Digital Programs Thomas Elliott and ISAW's Head Librarian David Ratzan.
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ISAW Director and Student Receive NEH Grant
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 02/07/2020
Professor Alexander Jones and doctoral candidate David Danzig of ISAW were recently awarded a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to solve this problem. Their project, Shanati, is named after the ancient Babylonian word for “years.” Shanati will achieve precision to the day in reconstructing the ancient Babylonian Calendar from 750 BCE and on, by drawing on over 85,000 business documents, administrative notes, and scholarly treatises, which contain attestations of dates.
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New publication of the latest installment of the Rostovtzeff lectures by Prof. Jean-Luc Fournet
by David Ratzan | 01/27/2020
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the Princeton University Press are very pleased to announce the publication of the latest installment of the Rostovtzeff lectures, The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity by Prof. Jean-Luc Fournet. Fournet holds the Chair of Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology at the Collège de France in Paris and delivered the eighth annual Rostovtzeff lectures at ISAW in 2017.
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ISAW Announces Publication of "Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts" by Roger Bagnall and Alexander Jones
by David Ratzan | 12/16/2019
ISAW announces the imminent publication of the newest volume in the ISAW Monographs series, "Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts: A Codex From Late Antique Business Education."
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Karen Rubinson (Research Associate, ISAW) participates in "Technology, Art and Archaeology – Contacts between East and West in Ancient Gold" conference in Xi’an, China
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 11/04/2019
Karen Rubinson recently participated in an international conference in Xi’an, China: Technology, Art and Archaeology – Contacts between East and West in Ancient Gold, sponsored by the Material Science and Archaeology Research Center of Northwestern Polytechnic University, organized by Dr. Yan Liu, a Center faculty member.
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New ISAW Exhibition: A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 10/18/2019
Built by King Nebuchadnezzar II (r. 604-562 BCE), excavated by German archaeologists and partially re-created at the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin in the early 20th century, the Ishtar Gate has become an icon of ancient architectural achievement. A Wonder to Behold approaches this well-known monument from a fresh perspective: featuring a process-oriented exploration of the gateway’s creation, this exhibition will focus on the role of craftspeople and the magic of materials in ancient Middle Eastern life.
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Dan Potts Announced as Speaker for The Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 10/08/2019
Prof. Dan Potts will deliver the Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series at the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World (UCLA) in March 2020. Supported by a perpetual endowment to UCLA, and inspired by the Quatre Leçons au Collège de France, the Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series serves to promote scholarship in the field of ancient Iranian studies by enabling distinguished members of the academy to present a series of four or five lectures reflecting new perspectives and advances within the wider field of Iranian Studies. The proceedings of the Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series are published as monographs and supported by the lecture series’ endowment. The title of Prof. Potts’ series is ‘Kinship and society in ancient Iran.’ *Videos of the lectures are now available online, click through to the full post for links.
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