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ISAW PhD Candidate, Alireza Khounani, to Teach New Course: "Money and Market: Past and Present"
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 09/09/2020
ISAW PhD candidate, Alireza Khounani, will teach an undergraduate course at Gallatin School of Individualized Study titled "Money and Market: Past and Present." Alireza focuses in economic history and created this course to be taught to business and marketing undergraduate students.
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First volume of the Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, edited by Dan Potts together with Karen Radner (Munich) and Nadine Moeller (Yale) published
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 09/08/2020
The first volume of the five volume Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, edited by Dan Potts together with Karen Radner (Munich) and Nadine Moeller (Yale) has just been published!
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Naomi Miller Publishes Article on New Interpretation of the so-called "Ram Caught in a Thicket" Statuettes from the Death Pit at Ur, Iraq
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 08/25/2020
Naomi Miller Publishes Article on New Interpretation of the so-called "Ram Caught in a Thicket" Statuettes from the Death Pit at Ur, Iraq.
“A Sacred Landscape of Sumer: Statuettes from Ur Depicting a Goat on a Tree,” by Naomi F. Miller, Philip Jones, Richard L. Zettler, and Holly Pittman
(Journal of Near Eastern Religions 20 (2020) 27–47)
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Student-led International Conference Awarded 2020 NEH Grant for ISAW
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 08/18/2020
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World is pleased to announce the award of a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant in support of an interdisciplinary conference and workshop on ancient medicine/botany, the astral sciences, and divination, Prescription to Prediction: The Ancient Sciences in Cross-Cultural Perspective, to take place in Fall 2021 at Johns Hopkins University. The conference is being organized by ISAW doctoral student Amber Jacob and University of Copenhagen doctoral student Sofie Schiødt, under the direction of Alexander Jones (ISAW) and Richard Jasnow (Johns Hopkins).
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VRS Marcin Kotyl Publishes the Second Volume of P.Giss. II: A Notebook Roll and a Fiscal Codex from the Giessen Papyrus Collection (P.Giss. II)
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 08/10/2020
Visiting Research Scholar, Marcin Kotyl, recently published the second volume of P.Giss. II: A Notebook Roll and a Fiscal Codex from the Giessen Papyrus Collection (P.Giss. II).
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ISAW announces the publication of The House of Serenos, Part I: The Pottery (Amheida V) by Clementina Caputo
by David Ratzan | 07/14/2020
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and NYU Press are pleased to announce the publication of the latest volume from ISAW Monographs: The House of Serenos, Part I: The Pottery (Amheida V) by Clementina Caputo (Dipartimento ABC, Politecnico di Milano) with contributions by Julie Marchand (Histoire et Sources des Mondes Antiques, CNRS) and Irene Soto Marín (Assistant Professor of Classical Studies and Assistant Curator in the Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan).
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VRS Alumnus Dr. Mathieu Ossendrijver Receives Grant for Research on the Cross-cultural Transmission of the Zodiacal Astral Science in Ancient Cultures.
by hnm231@nyu.edu | 06/02/2020
ISAW Visiting Research Scholar Alumnus Dr. Mathieu Ossendrijver received an advanced grant of the European Research Council (ERC) for a historian of science of the Free University Berlina. This grant is for Dr. Ossendrijver's research on the cross-cultural transmission of the zodiacal astral science in ancient cultures.
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Roger Bagnall's 2019 Prentice Lecture at Princeton University "Roman Names and Roman Citizenship in Egypt" Now Available Online.
by Iris Fernandez | 04/22/2020
Roger S. Bagnall (Emeritus Professor of Ancient History and Leon Levy Director Emeritus, ISAW) was recently invited to give the 2019 Prentice Lecture at Princeton University. The Princeton Classics department has now published his talk, "Roman Names and Roman Citizenship in Egypt" online.
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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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