The first part of the title of my talk is a quote taken from a Babylonian text from the first millennium BCE: “if a flood of beer is seen in the moat of the city, men’s wives will go mad and murder spouses with weapons.” Babylonian scholars loved to compile […]

Talk by Frank Simons Invited talk at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania Talk: “Commit arson for fun and profit: the Ritual and Incantation Series Šurpu”; Venue: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania. Cancelled due to Corona virus.

Canceled- Talk by Frank Simons Invited talk at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University Talk: “Burn long and prosper: Studies on Šurpu” Venue: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University. The ritual and incantation series Šurpu ‘Burning’ is one of the most important […]

Cancelled Speaker: Prof. Enrique Jiménez, Institut für Assyriologie und Hethitologie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Seminar: “Blessings to the King”.

Talk by Martina Schmidl – Conference Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics, University of Erlangen Talk: “Intra-Writer Variation in Late Babylonian Letters" Conference: Historical Sociolinguistic Network conference 2021 (HiSoN 2021): Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics; Venue: Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Kochstraße 4, 91054 Erlangen; Date:  17 -19 March 2021 Abstract: My talk […]