This dissertation focuses on a unique corpus of cuneiform tablets from southern Babylonia written during the Seleucid period (roughly 3rd- 2nd c. BCE) that preserve …
This dissertation examines secrecy statements, the so-called cryptographic cuneiform texts, and foundation deposits in first millennium BCE Mesopotamia, linking them through the network of people …
This dissertation investigates the evolution of the imperial policies of the Egyptian 18th Dynasty (ca. 1550-1295 BC) in the northern Levant (i.e. Syria and Lebanon), …
Over the course of the late second and early first millennia BCE, the elite classes of the Assyrian empire received and appropriated Babylonian traditions of …
Modern scholars of the ancient Near East are only now beginning to appreciate the complex role commentaries played in ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). This dissertation …