About the Faculty

Eckart Frahm
Assistant Professor of Assyriology
Yale University
Office: SML 319
eckart.frahm@yale.edu
Phone: (203-)432-5584

CURRICULUM VITAE

Academic

1996: Ph.D. at Goettingen University. Dissertation topic: Einleitung in die Sanherib-Inschriften (Introduction to the inscriptions of Sennacherib). Oral comprehensive exam in Assyriology, Egyptology, and Islamic Studies.
1989: B.A. ("Zwischenpruefung") in Assyriology, Egyptology, and Semitic Studies at Heidelberg University.

Employment

since 2002: Assistant Professor of Assyriology at Yale University.
2001-2002: Assistant Professor of Assyriology at Heidelberg University.
1998-2001: Research Assistant at the Department for Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Heidelberg University within a research project, directed by Prof. S. M. Maul, on the pantheon, cultic topography, and cultic calendar of Assur (realized within the Leibniz Program of the German Research Council).
1997-1999: Lecturer for Akkadian at Mainz University, Fachbereich 15 (Philology).
1992-1996: Assistant at the Department for Cuneiform Studies, Goettingen University.
1988-1989: Assistant at the Department for Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Heidelberg University.

Research and Fieldwork

Fall 2001: Epigrapher of the German archaeological mission at Assur (Qal'at Sherqat), Iraq.
since 1993: Several month-long stays at the British Museum, London, and the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin. Extensive travels in the Middle East.

Grants

1996-1998: Grant of the German Research Council for a post-doc position in the "Graduiertenkolleg" ([post-]graduate school) "Religion and Normativity" (founded by Prof. J. Assmann and Prof. Th. Sundermeier) at Heidelberg University.
1993: Grant of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) for a three-months period of work at the British Museum, London.
1988-1993: Full scholarship and stipend by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Merit Foundation).

Teaching

Organization of Conferences, Workshops, and Panel Discussions

• Co-Organizer of the panel discussion "Iraq Beyond the Headlines," Yale University, April 1st, 2003.
• Organizer of the conference "Occidentalism? Appropriation, Modification and Rejection of Western Models of Thought and Action in Non-Western Cultures," Heidelberg, June, 27th-28th, 1998.
• Organizer of the workshop "Commentaries Compared: Forms and Techniques of Commentaries in the Middle East and in China," Heidelberg, October 17th-18th, 1997, with a contribution of my own.
• Co-organizer of the international conference "New Beginnings: The Staging of Cultural and Religious Innovations," Heidelberg, November 9th-11th, 1997.

Service

• Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University, 2003/2004, 2004/2005.
• Member Humanities Degree Committee, Yale University, 2004.

PUBLICATIONS (published, in press, or in preparation)

A. Monographs:

• Einleitung in die Sanherib-Inschrifte (Introduction to the Inscriptions of Sennacherib), Archiv fuer Orientforschung, Beiheft 26, Wien 1997
• [Together with Michael Jursa] Late Babylonian Letters from the Yale Babylonian Collection, Yale Oriental Series (in preparation)
• An Introduction to Assyrian and Babylonian Text Commentaries (in preparation)
• Keilschrifttexte aus Assur historischen Inhalts (Historical Inscriptions from Assur) (in preparation)

B. Articles:

• "Zwischen Dichtung und Wahrheit: Assur und Assyrien in den Augen der Nachwelt" (Between Fiction and Truth: Ashur and Assyria in the Views of Posterity), in: J. Marzahn, B. Salje (eds.), Wiedererstehendes Assur: 100 Jahre deutsche Ausgrabungen in Assyrien, Mainz 2003, 19-28.
• "Images of Ashurbanipal in Later Tradition," Eretz Israel 27 (Hayim and Miriam Tadmor Volume), Jerusalem 2003, 37-48
• "Zerstoerer, Bauherr, Reformer: der assyrische Koenig Sanherib" (Destroyer, Builder, Reformer: The Assyrian King Sennacherib), in: DAMALS, Magazin fuer Geschichte und Kultur, Oktober 2003, 24-29
• "Fuer immer verloren? Die Pluenderung des Irak-Museums in Bagdad" (Forever Lost? The Looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad), in: ANTIKE WELT 3/2003, 269-271
• "Assur 2001: Die Schriftfunde" (Ashur 2001: The Texts), in: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 134, Berlin 2002, 47-86
• "Zwischen Tradition und Neuerung: Babylonische Priestergelehrte im achaemenidenzeitlichen Uruk" (Between Tradition and Innovation: Babylonian Scholars and Priests in Achaemenid Uruk), in: R. G. Kratz (ed.), Religion und Religionskontakte im Zeitalter der Achaemeniden, Guetersloh 2002, 74-108
• "Ein krypto-sumerischer Text Koenig Adad-apla-iddinas aus Uruk" (A Crypto-Sumerian Text of King Adad-apla-iddina from Uruk), in: Baghdader Mitteilungen 32, Berlin 2001, 175-199, Tf. 1-4
• "Wie 'christlich' war die assyrische Religion?" (How "Christian" Was the Assyrian Religion?) (Review article of: S. Parpola, Assyrian Prophecies, SAA 9 [Helsinki 1998]), in: Die Welt des Orients 31, Tuebingen 2000/01, 31-45
• "Die Wiege der Zivilisation in den Stuermen der Zeit" (The Cradle of Civilization in the Storms of the Ages), in: ANTIKE WELT 3/2001, 265-270
• "Die Akitu-Haeuser von Ninive" (The Akitu Houses of Nineveh), in: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, Paris 2000, No. 66
• [together with R. Da Riva, Barcelona:] "Shama·-shumu-ukin, die 'Herrin von Ninive' und das babylonische Koenigssiegel" (Shamash-shumu-ukin, the "Lady of Nineveh," and the Babylonian Royal Seal), in: Archiv fuer Orientforschung XLVI/XLVII, Wien 1999/2000, 156-182
• "Perlen von den Raendern der Welt" (Beads from the Margins of the World), in: K. Van Lerberghe, G. Voet (eds.), Languages and Cultures in Contact . At the Crossroads of Civilizations in the Syro-Mesopotamian Realm (Proceedings of the 42th RAI), Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 96, Leuven 1999, 79-99
• "Eine Feldkaufurkunde aus Munbaqa?" (A Field Contract from Munbaqa?), in: Ugarit-Forschungen 31, Muenster 1999 (appeared 2000), 175-185
• [together with E. Braun-Holzinger, Mainz:] "Liebling des Marduk . Koenig der Blasphemie. Große babylonische Herrscher in der Sicht der Babylonier und in der Sicht anderer Voelker" (Favourite of Marduk . King of Blasphemy: Great Babylonian Rulers in Babylonian and Foreign Perspectives), in: J. Renger (ed.), Babylon: Focus mesopotamischer Geschichte, Wiege frueher Gelehrsamkeit, Mythos in der Moderne, CDOG, Bd. 2, Saarbruecken 1999, 131-156
• "Nabû-zuqup-kenu, das Gilgamesch-Epos und der Tod Sargons II." (Nabû-zuqup-kenu, the Gilgamesh Epic, and the Death of Sargon II), in: Journal of Cuneiform Studies 51, Atlanta 1999, 73-90
• "Kabale und Liebe: Die koenigliche Familie am Hof zu Ninive" (Love and Intrigue: The Royal Family and the Nineveh Court), in: W. Seipel, A. Wieczorek (eds.), Von Babylon bis Jerusalem: Die Welt der altorientalischen Koenigsstaedte, Bd. 2 (exhibition catalogue, Mannheim), Milan 1999, 312-323
• "704 v. Chr." (704 B.C.), in: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, Paris 1998, no. 116
• "Humor in assyrischen Koenigsinschriften" (Humor in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions), in: J. Prosecky (ed.), Intellectual Life of the Ancient Near East (Papers Presented at the 43rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Prague, July 1-5, 1996), Prague 1998, 147-162
• "The End of an Oddity," in: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, Paris 1998, No. 12
• "Anmerkungen zu den alu-Kommentaren aus Uruk" (Remarks on the alu Commentaries from Uruk), in: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, Paris 1998, No. 11
• "Die Beine der Missgeburt" (The Legs of the Anomaly), in: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, Paris 1998, No. 10
• "Sanherib und die Tempel von Kuyunjik" (Sennacherib and the Temples of Kuyunjik), in: S. M. Maul (ed.), tikip santakki mala basmu ... Eine Festschrift fuer Rykle Borger zu seinem 65. Geburtstag am 24. Mai 1994, Cuneiform Monographs 10, Groningen 1998, 107-121
• "Ton vom Ton des Heiligen Huegels" (Clay from the Clay of the Holy Hill), in: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, Paris 1995, No. 9
• "Imaginaere Gottheiten" (Imaginary Deities), in: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, Paris 1994, No. 56
• "Die Bilder in Sanheribs Thronsaal" (The Images in Sennacherib.s Throne Room), in: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, Paris 1994, No. 55
• "Royal Hermeneutics: Observations on the Commentaries in Ashurbanipal.s Library at Nineveh," Iraq 66, London (in press)
• "Vier Urkunden aus Umma" (Four Administrative Documents from Umma), in: H. Waetzoldt (ed.), Fs. G. Pettinato, Heidelberg (in press)
• [together with E. Payne] "A Sumerian Votive Inscription from Shuruppak," Archiv fuer Orientforschung L, Wien (in press)
• "Headhunter, Buecherdiebe und wandernde Gelehrte: Anmerkungen zum altorientalischen Wissenstransfer im ersten Jahrtausend v. Chr." (Headhunters, Book Thieves, and Ambulating Scholars: Remarks on the Transfer of Knowledge in First Millennium Mesopotamia), in: H. Neumann (ed.), Wissenskultur im Alten Orient, CDOG, Bd. 2 (in press)
• "Hochverrat in Assur" (High Treason in Assur), in: S. M. Maul (ed.), Heidelberger Assur-Forschungen, Heidelberg (in press)
• "The Hermeneutics of Cuneiform Signs in Divination and in Text Commentaries," in: Proceedings of the Conference on the Fifth Millennium for the Invention of Writing in Mesopotamia, Baghdad (in press[?]; an Arabic version was published in: Magallat Afaq .Arabiya, Baghdad, March 2001)
• "Images of Assyria in the 19th and 20th Centuries, and Their Hidden Agendas," in: S. Holloway (ed.), Assyriology, Orientalism, and the Bible, Sheffield (in preparation)
• "Mensch, Land und Volk: Assur im Alten Testament" (Man, Land, and People: Assur in the Old Testament), in: J. Renger (ed.), Assur: Gott, Stadt und Land, CDOG, Bd. 5 (in preparation)
• "An astronomical diary from 142 B. C." (in preparation)
• Edition und discussion of texts related to the Bavian-Inscription: K 100 (+) DT 166 (+) Rm 403 (in preparation)
• "Two Old Babylonian Documents" (in preparation)
• "The Ashur Recension of "Ishtar.s Descent to the Netherworld" (edition of the text with new join, in preparation)

C. Encyclopedia Entries:

• "Geschichtsschreibung (Alter Orient und Israel)" (Historiography in the Ancient Near East and in Israel), in: Der Neue Pauly, Bd. 4, Stuttgart, Weimar 1998, 990-991
• "Nimrod," in: Der Neue Pauly, Bd. 8, Stuttgart, Weimar 2000, 950-951
• "Ninos," in: Der Neue Pauly, Bd. 8, Stuttgart, Weimar 2000, 951-952
• "Ninyas," in: Der Neue Pauly, Bd. 8, Stuttgart, Weimar 2000, 954
• "Sanherib," in: Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgart, Weimar 2001, 39
• "Semiramis," in: Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgart, Weimar 2001, 378-379
• "Tiglatpilesar," in: Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgart, Weimar (2002), 566-567
• "Tukulti-Ninurta," in: Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgart, Weimar (2002), 898
• "Verschleppung / Deportation (Alter Orient und AEgypten)" (Deportation in the Ancient Near East and in Egypt), in: Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgart, Weimar 2003, 92-95
• "Entzifferung (Alter Orient und AEgypten)" (Decipherment [Ancient Near East and Egypt]), in: Der Neue Pauly, Rezeptions- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Bd. 13, Stuttgart, Weimar 1999, 956-962
• "Esotericism in Mesopotamian Religions," in S. I. Johnston (ed.), Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide, Cambridge, MA (in press)
• "Ur," in: Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, fourth edition, Tuebingen (in press)
• "Uruk," in: Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, fourth edition, Tuebingen (in press)

D. Book Reviews:

• Review of T. N. D. Mettinger, The Riddle of Resurrection (Stockholm 2001), in: Zeitschrift fuer Assyriologie 93, Muenchen 2003, 294-300
• Review of J. M. Russell, The Writing on the Wall (Winona Lake 1999), in: Bibliotheca Orientalis 60, Leiden 2003, 162-169
• Review of B. Cifola, Analysis of Variants in the Assyrian Royal Titulary from the Origins to Tiglath-Pileser III (Napoli 1995), in: Archiv fuer Orientforschung XLVI/XLVII, Wien 1999/2000, 367-373
• Review of K. Radner, Die neuassyrischen Privatrechtsurkunden als Quelle fuer Mensch und Umwelt, SAAS 6 (Helsinki 1997), in: Die Welt des Orients 30, Tuebingen 1999, 182-188
• Review of M. T. Larsen, The Conquest of Assyria (London 1996), in: Bibliotheca Orientalis 55, Leiden 1998, 799-804
• Review of A. K. Grayson, Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millenium BC. II (858-745), The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Assyrian Periods 3, Toronto, Buffalo, London 1996, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 93, Berlin 1998, 304-318
• Review of H. Tadmor, The Inscriptions of Tiglath-Pileser III, King of Assyria (Jerusalem 1994), in: Archiv fuer Orientforschung XLIV und XLV, Wien 1997/1998, 399-404
• Review of B. Oded, War, Peace and Empire. Justifications for War in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions (Wiesbaden 1992), in: Archiv fuer Orientforschung XLII/XLIII, Wien 1995/1996, 238-244
• Review of L. Verderame, Le Tavolette I-VI della serie astrologica Enuma Anu Enlil (Rome 2002), in: Archiv fuer Orientforschung, Wien (in preparation)
• Review of S. C. Melville, The Role of Naqia/Zakutu in Sargonid Politics, SAAS 9 (Helsinki 1999), in: Archiv fuer Orientforschung, Wien (in preparation)

E. Collaborative Projects:

• Contributions to K. Radner & H. Baker (eds.), The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (Helsinki 1998-):
  
  Entries contributed:
  
  Vol. 1, Part I: A (Helsinki 1998): Adanu, Adinu, Adanu, Ana-Assur-taklak, Assur-belu-usur, Assur-ili-muballissu, Assur-mukannis-ilija, Assur-remu-sukna, Assur-remuti, Assur-resi-sallim, Assur-sakip (Assur-sagibi), Assur-sabat, Assur-sabtanni, Assur-saddűa, Assur-saddűni, Assur-sakin-liti, Assur-sakin-[...], Assur-sarrani-muballissu, Assur-sarru-usur, Assur-sepe-usur, Assur-sezibanni, Assur-si’i, Assur-simti-sima, Assur-sumu-usabsi, Assur-..., Assur-[...]
  
  Vol. 1, Part II: B-G (Helsinki 1999): Barű (Barrű), Baslu, Batanu, Bel-ahhe, Bel-ahhe-iddina, Bel-ahhe-Marduk, Bel-ahhe-sallim, Bel-ahhesu, Bel-ahhe-[...], Bel-ahu-iddina, Bel-ahu-sallim, Bel-ahu-usur, Bel-ahu-[...], Bel-ali, Bel-asared, Bel-Kundi-ilaja, Bel-sar-ahhesu, Ekistura, Eresu, Erisu, Eris, Erisu
  
  Vol. 2, Part I: H-K (Helsinki 2000): Ikausu, Ik-Tessup, Ispakaja, Ispimatu, Janbi, Jabâ, Jabibę, Jabibu, Jadidâ, Jadidu, Jahulę, Jahutu, Jaja, Ja’iru, Jaisi, Jakmini, Jakmisi, Ja’la, Jala[...], Jali, Jaluzu, Japa’, Jaqa-il, Jaqar-ahhe, Jaqirâ, Jaqiru, Jaqisu, Jarban, Jarhi, Jarî, Jasam, Jasime’il, Jasubaju, Jasumu, Jasâ, Jasanimu, Jaskur-ilu, Jasimu, Jatamâ, Jatana-el, Ja’tanu, Jatara, Jatmâ, Jatjahű, Karib-ilu
  
  Vol. 2, Part II: K-N (Helsinki 2001): Lamintu, Lulî, Mangas, Manije, Mansaku, Mantimeanhę, Marduk-nadin-ahhe, Marduk-sakin-sumi, Mattan-Ba’al, Menas(s)ę, Milki-asapa, Mitinti, Nabű-belu-usur, Nabű-sezibanni, Nahkę, Nathi-huru-ansini, Niharu
  
  Vol. 3, Part. I: P-S (Helsinki 2002): Sîn-ahhe-eriba

F. Editorial Work:

• Consulting editor for the September 2004 issue of CALLIOPE (on ancient Assyria)

INVITED LECTURES

• "Babylonian Scholarship in the Achaemenid Period," Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Near Eastern Studies, March 5th, 2004
• "Mensch, Land und Volk: Assur im Alten Testament" (Man, Land, and People: Assur in the Old Testament), invited lecture given at the V. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, Berlin, February 20th, 2004
• "Images of Assyria in the 19th and 20th Centuries, and their Hidden Agendas," invited lecture given at the "Assyriology and the Bible Consultation" of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, Georgia, November 23rd, 2003
• [Together with Karen Foster] "Art, Architecture, War," lecture given at the panel discussion "Iraq beyond the Headlines II," Yale University, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, October 28, 2003
• "Bombs over Babylon," lecture given at the panel discussion "Iraq beyond the Headlines," Yale University, Suder Hall, April 1st, 2003
• "The Arabs in Cuneiform Sources: New Perspectives and Old Problems," Oriental Club of New Haven, February 13th, 2003
• "Intertextualitaet und Re-enactment: Ueberlegungen zur Rezeptionsgeschichte der mittelassyrischen historischen Epen" (Inertextuality and Re-enactment: Reflections on the Reception History of the Middle-Assyrian Historical Epics), Berlin, Freie Universitaet, May 3rd, 2002
• "The Transfer of Knowledge and the Recruitment of Scholars in Assyria and Babylonia," Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University, February 28th, 2002
• "Headhunter, Tafelraeuber und wandernde Gelehrte: Anmerkungen zum altorientalischen Wissenstransfer im ersten Jahrtausend v. Chr." (Headhunters, Tablet Robbers, and Ambulating Scholars: Remarks on the Transfer of Knowledge in First Millennium Mesopotamia), invited lecture at the IV. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, Muenster, February 21st, 2002
• "Alles wimmelt von Kommentaren: Anmerkungen zu den pragmatischen und esoterischen Dimensionen der assyrisch-babylonischen Hermeneutik" (Commentaries Everywhere: Remarks on the Pragmatic and Esoteric Dimensions of Assyrian and Babylonian Hermeneutics), Altorientalisches Seminar, Berlin, February 1st, 2001
• "Sanheribs Kampf mit Babylon und das Tukulti-Ninurta-Epos: Anmerkungen zu den politischen und literarischen Dimensionen einer imitatio" (Sennacherib.s War with Babylon, and the Tukulti-Ninurta Epic: Remarks on the Political and Literary Dimensions of an imitatio), Mainz University, Fachbereich 15, January 5th, 2000
• "Die Entzifferung der Keilschrift und die Wiederentdeckung der ersten Haelfte der Geschichte" (The Decipherment of Cuneiform Writing and the Rediscovery of the First Half of History), lecture given on the occasion of an "open house" at Heidelberg University, November 9th, 1999 (repeated June 20th, 2000)
• "Die Vorteile der babylonischen Sprachverwirrung" (The Advantages of the Babylonian Confusion of Tongues), inivited lecture given in the frame of an interdisciplinary series of talks ("Ringvorlesung") on "Language, Script, Writing," Goettingen, December 1st, 1998
• "Zwischen Philologie und Kabbalistik: Anmerkungen zu den babylonischen und assyrischen Textkommentaren" (Between Philology and Kabbalah: Remarks on Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries), Seminar fuer Orientalistik, Vienna, June 8th, 1998
• "Zwischen Tradition und Neuerung: Babylonische Priestergelehrte im achaemenidenzeitlichen Uruk" (Between Tradition and Innovation: Babylonian Scholars and Priests in Achaemenid Uruk), invited lecture given at the conference "Mesopotamien in der Achaemenidenzeit," organized by the association "Altorientalisch-hellenistische Religionsgeschichte des ersten Jahrtausends v. Chr." of the Wiss. Ges. f. Theologie, Sektion AT, Goettingen, Theologicum, April 25th, 1998
• [Together with E. Braun-Holzinger, Mainz:] "Liebling des Marduk . Koenig der Blasphemie. Groß babylonische Herrscher in der Sicht der Babylonier und in der Sicht anderer Voelker" (Favourite of Marduk -- King of Blasphemy: Great Babylonian Rulers in Babylonian and Foreign Perspectives), invited lecture at the II. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, Berlin, March 24th, 1998

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• "Celebrating Atrocities: The Assyrian Rhetoric of War", paper given at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, January 9th, 2004
• "Royal Hermeneutics: Observations on the Commentaries in Ashurbanipal.s Library at Nineveh", paper given at the 49e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, "Nineveh," at London, July 8th, 2003
• "The Hermeneutics of Cuneiform Signs in Divination and in Text Commentaries," paper given at the conference "The Fifth Millennium for the Invention of Writing in Mesopotamia," Baghdad, March 25th, 2001
• "Images of Ashurbanipal in the 19th and 20th century," paper given at 45e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, "Historiography," Cambridge, MA, July 7th, 1998
• "Wenn der Koenig im Feindesland faellt. Zur religioes-literarischen Bewaeltigung eines historischen Ungluecksfalls" (When the King Dies in the Enemy.s Country: Religious and Political Strategies to Overcome a Historical Calamity), paper given at 44e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, "Landscapes . Territories, Frontiers and Horizons in the Ancient Near East," Venice, July 9th, 1997
• "Humor in assyrischen Koenigsinschriften" (Humor in Assyrian Royal Inscriptions), paper given at 43e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, "Intellectual Life of the Ancient Near East," Prague, July 4th, 1996
• [Together with C. Peust, Goettingen:] "Aegyptische Hieroglyphen und babylonisch-assyrische Keilschrift . Warum komplexe Graphiesysteme 'leistungsfaehiger' sind als Alphabetschriften" (Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Babylonian-Assyrian Cuneiform Writing: Why Complex Writing Systems are More Productive than Alphabetic Scripts), paper given at 18. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft, panel: Multiliteralismus: fremde Schriften, Fremdes schreiben und Schriftwechsel, Freiburg, February 28th, 1996
• "Sabaeische Schaetze am assyrischen Hof" (Sabaean Treasures at the Assyrian Court), paper given at 42e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, "Languages and Cultures in Contact . At the Crossroads of Civilizations in the Syro-Mesopotamian Realm," Leuven, July 6th, 1995
• "Sanheribs agrarische Aktivitaeten nach veroeffentlichten und unveroeffentlichten Inschriften" (Sennacherib.s Agricultural Projects according to Published and Unpublished Inscriptions), poster presented at the 41e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, "Landwirtschaft im Alten Orient," Berlin, July 4th-8th, 1994

FUTURE PROJECTS

• Edition of a series of introductions to important text genres from first millennium Mesopotamia (in cooperation with Michael Jursa, Vienna)
• Full edition of the economic and administrative texts found during the excavations in Assur, Iraq, in 2001.
• Edition and discussion of the writings of the Assyrian scholar and royal advisor Nabű-zuqup-kenu (in cooperation with Ann Guinan, Philadelphia, Nils Heessel, Heidelberg, and Laurie Pearce, Berkeley)