Dr. Greta Van Buylaere

Postdoctoral Researcher (Philology) October 2023 - March 2025

greta.van.buylaere@ uni-muenster.de

Greta Van Buylaere is a postdoctoral researcher on the GoviB project. She specialises in Assyrian and Babylonian literacy, and their political and intellectual history, in particular in relation to the textual record of the first millennium BCE.

Selected Publications

The Cuneiform Tablets from the First Millennium BCE in the Babylon Collection of the Istanbul Archaeological Museums. Forthcoming.

Crime and Punishment according to a Neo-Babylonian Document from Babylon. Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte 29 (2023), 19-40.

Grain Deliveries to the Royal Palace in Babylon during the Reign of Nebuchadnezzar II. Journal of Cuneiform Studies 74 (2022), 139–184.

Von Babylon nach Istanbul. Einblicke in die Babylon Sammlung des Istanbuler Archäologischen Museums. Alter Orient aktuell 19 (2022), 10–18. With A. Schachner and N. P. Heeßel.

Links

Institut für Altorientalistik und Vorderasiatische Archäologie
academia.edu

Dr. Odette Boivin, M.A.

Postdoctoral Researcher (Philology) September 2021 - June 2025

Odette Boivin obtained her PhD in Assyriology at the University of Toronto, where she also worked as a postdoctoral fellow after obtaining her degree. Before coming to Münster to work within the framework of GoviB, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. She specialises in the political and socio-economic history of Babylonia in the 2nd and 1st millennium BCE, with a special focus on the First Sealand Dynasty as well as on Historiography and Memory Studies.

Selected Publications

“Chapter 18: The Kingdom of Babylon and the Kingdom of the Sealand,” in: K. Radner, N. Moeller, and D.T. Potts (eds), 2022, The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East. Vol.2: From the End of the third millennium BC to the Fall of Babylon. Oxford/New York, 566–655.

“The ilku and related fiscal obligations in sixth century Larsa,” in: K. Kleber (ed.), 2021, Taxation in the Achaemenid Empire. Amsterdamer Kolloquium. Classica et Orientalia 26. Wiesbaden, 153–175.

The First Dynasty of the Sealand in Mesopotamia. Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records 20. Berlin/Boston, 2018 [& paperback 2019].

Links

Institut für Altorientalistik und Vorderasiatische Archäologie
academia.edu

MMag. Dr. Martina Schmidl

Postdoctoral Researcher (Philology) September 2021 - February 2023

Martina Schmidl studied Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Religious Studies at the University of Vienna, and obtained her PhD there in 2020 on administrative epistolography in the late sixth and early fifth centuries BCE.

Her research interests include epistolography and historical sociolinguistics, especially the usage of literary and everyday language to express identities, ideas, emotions and world views.

Selected publications

“Mirror, Mirror. Some Remarks on Structuring Devices in the Advice to a Prince”, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 112 (2022).

“Ad Astra: Graphic Signalling in the Acrostic Hymn of Nebuchadnezzar II (BM 55469),” Altorientalische Forschungen 48/2 (2021), 318-326.

“Some Remarks on Language Usage in Late Babylonian Letters”, in Ch. Barbati und Ch. Gastgeber (eds), 2017, Open Linguistics. Topical Issue on Historical Sociolinguistic Philology. De Gruyter Open, 375-394.

With J. Hackl and M. Jursa, with contributions by K. Wagensonner, 2014, Spätbabylonische Privatbriefe. Spätbabylonische Briefe 1. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 414/1. Münster.

Links

Institut für Altorientalistik und Vorderasiatische Archäologie
academia.edu
ORCID

Dr. des. Christine Kainert, M.A.

Postdoctoral researcher (Archaeology) December 2021 - September 2023

Christine Kainert studied Near Easten Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology and Assyriology at the Free University Berlin, where she also obtained her PhD in 2021. In 2018/19, she worked as a curatorial assistant at the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin. This was followed by positions at the German Archaeological Institute and at the Museum für Islamische Kunst Berlin.

Her research interests include the archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula, and the analysis of pottery and small finds as a tool to answer questions about manufacturing technologies, settlement dynamics, trade and interregional interaction.

Selected Publications

with N. Cholidis, Y. El Khoury, J. Eule, H. Gries, B. Helwing and L. Martin, “Der Babel-Bibel-Streit: Politik, Theologie und Wissenschaft um 1900, Eine Sonderausstellung des Vorderasiatischen Museums im Pergamonmuseum,” in: E. Cancik-Kirschbaum and T. L. Gertzen (eds), 2021, Der Babel-Bibel-Streit und die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Beiträge einer internationalen Konferenz vom 4.-6.11.2019 in Berlin. Investigatio Orientis 6, Münster, 249–284.

“The Pottery,” in: P. Drechsler (ed.), 2018, Dosariyah - Reinvestigating a Neolithic Coastal Community in Eastern Arabia. BFSA Monographs No. 19, Oxford, 183–198.

Links

academia.edu

Nina Gavrilyuk, B.A.

Student Assistant July 2021 - June 2022

Peter Scheurer, B.A.

Student Assistant March - December 2022

Peter Scheurer obtained his Bachelor of Arts in the programme for Conservation and Restoration/Excavation techniques at the HTW Berlin, with a focus on field archaeology and excavation techniques. He is currently enrolled in the Master programme Geoinformation at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik to further extend his knowledge on cartography and geoinformation. He took part in excavations in Germany and Turkey, working on surveying and documenting archaeological structures.