Knowledge Commons | Heather D Baker | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/apkallatu/activity/ Activity feed for Heather D Baker. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:00:00 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ee9c276e15d3db58522dd05c7250851b Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Letizia Savino, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=138 Fri, 05 May 2023 16:46:00 -0400 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 […]

]]> 30a31e1f7149682233719ba2d1c151b7 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Jessica Marchetti, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=135 Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:52:08 -0500 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 […]

]]> aa6924cfc2bc883e0f2400976377a4ee Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Evelyne Koubkova, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=133 Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:41:18 -0500 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 […]

]]> 7e7df33224d18458b06dd52a4020a7fe Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Anthony P. SooHoo, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=131 Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:35:10 -0500 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 […]

]]> f6a6f427d9aa06f53741a57eec1c3d87 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Christie Carr, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=128 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 16:42:11 -0500 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 […]

]]> 18ef251834f13fa4f1ae46b678ccb5ae Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Nimrod Madrer, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=125 Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:20:54 -0500 Title: Existential phrases in Semitic languages

University: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Supervisors: Nathan Wasserman, Steve Fassberg

Abstract: Existential phrases constitute a broad, yet elusive, […]

]]> eaaebc0894ffefaaddaa3b4b9022029f Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Lola Lombard, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=120 Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:16:13 -0500 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 […]

]]> 14c208f7741a8cab010cfbf35db7415c Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Imane Achouche, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=122 Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:15:53 -0500 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 " […]

]]> 4efdbff481de1fd31d82bb81b1071abe Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Dániel Ligeti, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=116 Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:00:48 -0500 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 […]

]]> 75b4392a3f3068b09f1192dac855ba7a Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Andrew Pottorf, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=112 Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:40:39 -0400 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 […]

]]> f1a87d39a63cb292e6bf7aa45f021d53 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Southern Mesopotamian Urbanism, on the site Heather D. Baker https://heatherdbaker.hcommons.org/?p=347 Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:40:21 -0400 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. Online first publication: htt […]

]]> 4e87097d6d1455037494726ff40af9d1 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, (no title), on the site Heather D. Baker https://heatherdbaker.hcommons.org/?p=337 Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:34:33 -0400 Just Published:
Baker, H. D. 2022. “Reconstructing Ancient Babylon: Myth and Reality.” Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies Journal 14: 15–27.

]]> 30aa552dd0cc6d42ba89908e48646370 Heather D Baker's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773438/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:53:06 -0500 0 d7039661bb6f227110916aa19c6c86ce Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Sonia Mazali, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=106 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:41:46 -0500 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 […]

]]> e4e602737debd4f48d49afabb1ef8157 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Publications, on the site Heather D. Baker https://heatherdbaker.hcommons.org/?p=330 Thu, 25 Nov 2021 15:21:28 -0500 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)

]]> 84c326e7b9ebe04641c0fc5ea11b4364 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Virginia Cara Girardi, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=102 Mon, 26 Jul 2021 15:42:28 -0400 Title: The Importance of Boat Transport for the Ur III Economy

University: University of Oxford

Supervisor: Professor Jacob L. Dahl

Abstract:
Using network analysis and similar data approaches to an […]

]]> 23a1b6771feff4022c3da68ae3bba350 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Mathilde Touillon-Ricci, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=99 Tue, 25 May 2021 21:52:25 -0400 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 […]

]]> b2fa8ca64f7312af8281bd58cef4dc80 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Anita Fattori, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=97 Tue, 25 May 2021 21:46:33 -0400 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 […]

]]> 877f43d32c42d30ac24f287c1ea1e37c Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Lucrezia Menicatti, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=95 Mon, 03 May 2021 16:16:32 -0400 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 […]

]]> 1f2f40a7a2744ff5dffc7f084d8ab93b Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Babylonian Houses and Housing, on the site Heather D. Baker https://heatherdbaker.hcommons.org/?p=317 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:31:47 -0400 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 […]

]]> 4a736fe8387f592d30991559831a9d2c Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Maria Teresa Renzi-Sepe, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=93 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 03:21:13 -0400 Title: The Perception of the Pleiades in the Mesopotamian Culture

University: Universität Leipzig

Supervisor: Prof. Michael P. Streck

Abstract: The study aims at analysing the conceptualisation of the […]

]]> 35a17c02955722d9e72c7998e02702cb Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Adam Howe, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=91 Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:11:19 -0400 Title: Conceptions of Transgression and Its Consequences in the Mesopotamian Exorcistic Corpus

University: University of Oxford

Supervisors: Dr Frances Reynolds (Oxford), Prof Daniel Schwemer (JMU Wü […]

]]> 2677d8d9ab840147d9665e4131c71f50 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Antonia Pohl, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=89 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 19:38:33 -0400 Title: Die akkadischen Hymnen der altbabylonischen Zeit

University: Universität Leipzig

Supervisors: Prof. Michael P. Streck; Prof. Nathan Wasserman

Abstract: 

Although the Akkadian hymns from the Old […]

]]> 2efdbe23369f69606a312eaf8a617eda Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Sophie Cohen, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=84 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 12:57:11 -0400 Title: Tablets to Nineveh

University: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

Supervisors: Prof. Enrique Jiménez (LMU), Dr Jonathan Taylor (The British Museum)

Abstract: 

The dissertation, part of the […]

]]> 855f7f78c0407f8f3479f97e9bd56a30 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Tommaso Scarpelli, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=72 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 12:45:53 -0400 Title: Das Wetter in der Mesopotamischen Kulturgeschichte des II. und I. Jahrtausends V. Chr.

University: Universität Leipzig

Supervisor: Prof. Michael P. Streck

Abstract:

The aim of the project is to […]

]]> 64bba072d40336b75938b96cd8abb709 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Luca Volpi, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=70 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 12:40:38 -0400 Title:The “Ubaid” pottery in a regional perspective. Proposals for a re-evaluation of the pottery repertoire of central-southern Mesopotamia and for the identification of pottery regional groups within the “bla […]

]]> 9bef72eed2cfa76cf02c4634a35bf43d Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Etienne Van Quickelberghe, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=67 Mon, 05 Apr 2021 18:32:49 -0400 Title: Le Royaume de Tarhuntassa : nouvelle étude critique des sources

University: Université catholique de Louvain

Supervisor: Prof. Jan Tavernier

Abstract: 

Les sources cunéiformes et glyph […]

]]> 295d715dbad71d1c07edcd270f313206 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Evelien Vanderstraeten, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=64 Mon, 05 Apr 2021 18:20:52 -0400 Title:  Connected through Marriage: A Social History of Marriage in Mesopotamia (c. 934–141 BCE)

University: University of Helsinki

Supervisors: Prof. Saana Svärd, Dr Jason Silverman, Prof. Caroline Waer […]

]]> 6b8b233df4801805288c12e89ee0f7f8 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, František Válek, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=61 Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:25:15 -0400 Title: Life, Society and Politics in Relation to Religion at Ugarit in the Late Bronze Age

University: Charles University, Prague

Supervisor: Dr Dalibor Antalík

Abstract:  Ugarit provides us with ampl […]

]]> e05889ba0ce7466445aa5d0b9ad3e741 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Raphaël Buisson-Rozensztrauch, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=57 Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:19:17 -0400 Title: The Wise Jew and the Foreign King: Study of a Dialectic Narrative Motif in Ancient Jewish Texts

University: Université Catholique de Louvain

Supervisor: Prof. Jan Tavernier

Abstract:

The goa […]

]]> 15b856f9a4eb8c9a48e0423bee319c32 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Jinyan Wang, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=54 Fri, 26 Mar 2021 09:36:03 -0400 Title: The Rise of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (630-582 BC)

University: University of Toronto

Supervisor: Prof. Paul-Alain Beaulieu

Abstract:

My dissertation will present an historical account of the pe […]

]]> 63c2cb9b067155fde73078a9902ea444 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Ivo Martins, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=52 Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:42:11 -0400 Title: Tradition and Innovation. BM 38299 and Late Babylonian Literature  (ca. 539–141 BCE)

University: Leiden University

Supervisors: Prof. Caroline Waerzeggers, Dr Johannes Bach

Abstract:

The prese […]

]]> f530dc1a4e0e1379e88f2639f19abaad Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Eleanor Bennett, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=49 Tue, 16 Mar 2021 13:49:16 -0400 Title: The 'Queens of the Arabs' During the Neo-Assyrian Period

University: University of Helsinki

Supervisor: Prof. Saana Svärd

Abstract:

During the Neo-Assyrian period (approximately 934-612 BCE, ba […]

]]> b7b5de4bae3f884a270c799bbb72ba2f Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Christopher W. Jones, on the site PhD Research in Assyriology https://assyriologyphd.hcommons.org/?p=46 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:24:24 -0400 Title: Power and Elite Competition in the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 745-612 BC.

University: Columbia University

Supervisor: Prof. Marc Van De Mieroop

Abstract:

The Neo-Assyrian Empire in the eighth ce […]

]]> fbbb74cdf4e3872701f1e71a405dac8b Heather D Baker's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1720190/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 03:40:05 -0500 0 9f7cdfb36a4b55c81fb627d768cce60c Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Publications, on the site Heather D. Baker https://heatherdbaker.hcommons.org/?p=308 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 03:31:09 -0500 Just published:

Baker, H.D. 2020. "Management of Resources in Mesopotamia: the View from the First Millennium BC." In J. Mynářová and S. Alivernini (eds), Economic Complexity in the Ancient Near East. Mana […]

]]> aa0e583d7713ad40e1b96755447eee63 Heather D Baker deposited The meaning of ṭuppi in the group Assyriologists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633426/ Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:25:50 -0500 The meaning of the Akkadian term ṭuppi has been hotly debated by Assyriologists for the greater part of a century. The present article argues that ṭuppi, commonly found in temporal expressions, can only refer to a one-year period. This proposal arises out of the observation that, among a substantial corpus of Neo-Babylonian house rental con…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4ffa6761178e79d8b95a5e6141aae2a Heather D Baker deposited The meaning of ṭuppi in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633425/ Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:25:21 -0500 The meaning of the Akkadian term ṭuppi has been hotly debated by Assyriologists for the greater part of a century. The present article argues that ṭuppi, commonly found in temporal expressions, can only refer to a one-year period. This proposal arises out of the observation that, among a substantial corpus of Neo-Babylonian house rental con…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f45c7fe266b9e3e7980ced60da5bb2d Heather D Baker deposited The meaning of ṭuppi https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1633357/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 19:38:32 -0500 The meaning of the Akkadian term ṭuppi has been hotly debated by Assyriologists for the greater part of a century. The present article argues that ṭuppi, commonly found in temporal expressions, can only refer to a one-year period. This proposal arises out of the observation that, among a substantial corpus of Neo-Babylonian house rental con…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8f69b145fd55e5cc6cb7e40ad2ede5d Heather D Baker deposited A waste of space? Unbuilt land in the Babylonian cities of the first millennium BC in the group Urban Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1617291/ Sun, 02 Sep 2018 16:26:48 -0400 This article uses both textual and archaeological evidence to examine the role of unbuilt land in the Babylonian city. Detailed study of such land is vital not only for understanding urban living conditions but also for any attempt to estimate urban population based on density of occupation of residential areas. By classifying and investigating…[Read more]

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]]> 0 7ac0384f9ff61c4fe7cb5517005474ba Heather D Baker's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1610502/ Mon, 11 Jun 2018 21:39:00 -0400 0 5d9d210563e985ffdf75d1cec26c099b Heather D Baker's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1607375/ Sun, 29 Apr 2018 22:32:44 -0400 0 5039dcdec06152f6293a55826f7cb5ed Heather D Baker's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1606995/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:43:28 -0400 0 c1cebff15ca967815e1783f4e1b75ab9 Heather D Baker wrote a new post, Welcome!, on the site Heather D. Baker http://heatherdbaker.hcommons.org/?p=141 Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:53:10 -0400 Journey to the Late Babylonian City: the Final Phases of Mesopotamian Urbanism (conference on Cities in the Ancient World, Penn Museum, 20–21 April 2018)

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