2015. július 23., csütörtök

Doktori, posztdoktori helyek Münchenben

Ismét a Graduate School Distant Worldsben: 8 doktori és 2 posztdoktori helyet hirdettek.

Kadmos 53 (2014)

A tartalomból:

A ‘new old reading’ of the Lycian inscription TL 42
Adiego, Ignasi-Xavier

From the predicaments of grammatology to the origin of the Lydian (and other) scripts
Rizza, Alfredo

I limiti della regolarità grafematica: alcuni esempi dall’anatolico
Giusfredi, Federico

2015. július 22., szerda

Anatolian Studies 65 (2015)

A tartalomból:

New perspectives on stone bead technology at Bronze Age Troy (Geoffrey Ludvik et al.)

A Hittite treaty tablet from Oylum Höyük in southeastern Turkey and the location of Ḫaššu(wa) (Ahmet Ünal)

Phoenician and Luwian in Early Iron Age Cilicia (Ilya Yakubovich)

Addendum to ‘Phoenician and Luwian in Early Iron Age Cilicia’ by Ilya Yakubovich (J.D. Hawkins)

Adanawa or Ahhiyawa? Reply to the addendum by J.D. Hawkins (Ilya Yakubovich)

Two new inscribed Storm-god stelae from Arsuz (İskenderun): ARSUZ 1 and 2 (Belkıs Dinçol et al.)

A goddess among Storm-gods. The stele of Tavşantepe and the landscape monuments of southern Cappadocia (Anna Lanaro)

‘Heroa’ and the city. Kuprlli’s new architecture and the making of the ‘Lycian acropolis’ of Xanthus in the early Classical period (Catherine M. Draycott)

2015. július 21., kedd

Current Research of the Hungarian Archaeological Mission in Thebes

Egy nagyon fontos kiadvány jelent meg: a Publications of the Office of the Hungarian Cultural Counsellor sorozat első kötete, Current Research of the Hungarian Archaeological Mission in Thebes címmel, mely kötetet a magyar egyiptomi régészeti kutatások aktuális eredményei bemutatásának szenteltek. A sorozat szerkesztője Kovács Renáta, a kairói magyar kulturális tanácsos.

A tartalom:

2015. július 13., hétfő

Új magyar egyiptológia blog

Egy új blog indult, Egyiptológia címmel, amelynek célja, hogy "hogy az érdeklődő nagyközönséggel megismertessük a hazai egyiptológia történetét, hagyományait, tevékenységét, életét, eredményeit, valamint beszámoljunk az éppen aktuális eseményekről, kiadványokról." A blog szerzői az ELTE BTK tanszék oktatói és hallgatói közül kerülnek ki. Ezen a linken lehet olvasgatni.

2015. július 2., csütörtök

Doktori ösztöndíj (asszíriológia)

PhD position in Assyriology

1.0 fte (full-time), 4 years
Specialization in Neo-Babylonian
Faculty of Humanities, VU Amsterdam
Vacancy number: 15177
Application deadline: 16 July 2015

The research project “Paying for All the Kings’ Horses and All the King’s Men: A Fiscal History of the Achaemenid Empire”, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), conducted under the leadership of Kristin Kleber is seeking to fill a PhD position in September 2015. The project aims to investigate taxation and administration in the Achaemenid Empire. Currently one PhD candidate (Mark Tamerus) works on the Elamite texts from Persepolis. The prospective PhD candidate will share the work on Babylonian archives with K. Kleber and an additional post-doctoral scholar who is to join the project from 2016 on for two years (a job advertisement will follow in due time). 

Job description
The PhD candidate will independently read and analyze published (often only in cuneiform) and unpublished texts from Neo-Babylonian private archives and write a dissertation on taxation (types, basis for taxation), administration and the spending of tax money in Babylonia during the Persian period. He or she will collect all quantitative information but will also work qualitatively by conducting an analysis of the underlying administrative structures. The candidate will get the chance to travel to collections of cuneiform tablets to make collations and possibly transliterations of new texts. 
The candidate will furthermore present a work-in-progress paper on a meeting of the Neo-Babylonian Network Initiative and a scientific paper at the project’s international workshop in 2018. The latter will be published in conference proceedings. 

According to the new PhD regulations of VU University all PhD candidates are required to take 30 ECTS of education during the four-year position. Some of these study points can be acquired through regular courses in Akkadian, project-meetings, presentations at the Neo-Babylonian Network workshop and a course in reading and copying original cuneiform tablets. The candidate may be asked to teach one course per year during his/her second and third year or to contribute in knowledge transfer to a general public (e.g. by giving a presentation for a wider audience or writing and posting information for a general public on the project’s website which is currently under construction). 

Requirements: 
The prospective PhD candidate: 
• has an MA in Assyriology (or a comparable Ancient Studies degree with a specialization on the Ancient Near East) at hand by 31 August 2015; 
• has acquired knowledge on Neo-Babylonian archival studies during his/her previous education; 
• is able to place texts and data into their historical context; 
• is able to write a dissertation and papers in good scholarly English; 
• has evident communicative and organisational skills. 
Familiarity with Neo-Babylonian texts is essential for this position. Applicants are requested to mention courses they took or papers they wrote on Neo-Babylonian topics during their BA and MA-education. It will be appreciated if the BA-thesis, a larger term paper or the MA-thesis on a Neo-Babylonian topic is submitted along with the letter of application (max. two pages), a transcript (list of courses and grades), and a CV. 

Other relevant details
PhD candidates at Dutch Universities are employees and receive the full benefits that the institution offers its personnel. The initial employment contract will have the duration of one year. After a positive evaluation the contract will be prolonged for three years. The contract will end on 31 August 2019. 

Salary
The salary will be in accordance with university regulations for academic personnel in education. It ranges from € 2125 gross per month in the first year up to € 2717 in the fourth (salary scale 85). The project is seeking to fill the vacancy as of 1 September 2015. 

Information and application
For additional information you can contact Dr. K. Kleber via e-mail. 
Applicants are requested to write a letter in which they describe their abilities and their motivation, accompanied by their curriculum vitae, a transcript (list of courses and grades), and a written sample on a Neo-Babylonian topic. Applications should be sent attached to an e-mail to k.kleber at vu.nl until 16 July 2015. The letter of application can be addressed to: 

Dr. K. Kleber 
VU University Amsterdam 
Faculty of Humanities 
De Boelelaan 1105 
1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Any other correspondence in response to this advertisement will not be dealt with.

2015. július 1., szerda

Az Isba'l-felirathoz

A tegnapi bejegyzésben olvashatóak voltak a legújabb és természetesen a médiumok által is felkap(at)ott Khirbet Qeiyafa-i szöveget közlő dolgozat adatai. Aki a felirat valódi jelentőségének és kontextusának rövid, de annál megbízhatóbb értékelésére vágyik, az olvassa el Christopher Rollston blogbejegyzését erre.