Director

Prof. Dr. Michael P. Streck

researchers

Stefan Putzier, M.A. (retired)
Marco Stockhusen, M.A.

 

other Phases of research:

2004–2008

Project Group B: Conflict and Control, Project B4

Space and Mobility in the Time of the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empire

Programme

The project “Space and mobility in Mesopotamia at the time of the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empire”, managed by Prof. Dr. M. P. Streck and Stefan Putzier, M.A. (retired) and Marco Stockhusen, M.A. respectively, closely cooperates with the SFB 586 sub-project B7 “Space and mobility in Syro-Palestine at the time of the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empire”. Prof. Dr. A. Berlejung of the Institut für Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft is in charge of this sub-project. Both sub-projects complement each other and complete the analysis of the mutual reactions between nomads and settled population in the Ancient Near East started during the previous phases of research.

The project B4 is comprised of two parts:

  1. a general introductory part A: Space and mobility in the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empire,
  2. a main part B (case study): Nomads and tribes at the time of the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empire


The introductory part A summarizes the aspects space and mobility in the mentioned empires and prepares the widespread specialist literature for audiences from other academic disciplines. In addition to this, different methodical approaches like concepts of space, operative and symbolic dimensions of space and different modes of mobility will be considered. This part is designed to establish a historical background and a reference point for the following case study. The broad interpretation should answer the question, if the relations between nomads and settled people in Babylonia at the time of the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empire were manifested in common patterns or special interactions.

The main part B again consists of two parts:

  1.  A lexicon of the Aramean, Chaldaean and Arabian tribes in Babylonia. This part will deal with the examination of the cuneiform sources concerning history and historical topography. The crucial questions are: geographical distribution of the tribes, their integration in the Assyrian and Babylonian provincial system, and the interrelations of the tribes between each other as well as with the ruling empires.
  2. A statistical analysis of the Aramean toponyms in Babylonia from the 9th to the 6th century BCE. On the basis of selected regions in Babylonia a chronologically differentiated general view on the distribution of the Aramean toponyms shall be established. The aim of main part B/2 is to investigate the arrangement of the Aramean settlement areas und their development.


The projects B4 and B7 will work out a combined outline of their results.

PubliCations

Prof. Dr. Michael P. Streck

with A. Berlejung (eds.), Aramaeans, Chaldeans, and Arabs in Babylonia, Syria and Palestine in the First Millennium B.C., Leipziger Altorientalische Studien 3 (in print).

„Aramaeans in Babylonia“, in: H. Niehr (ed.), The Aramaeans in Syria (Manuscript 20 pages, in print).

„Akkadian and Aramaic Language Contact“, in: S. Weninger/G. Khan/M. P. Streck/J. Watson (eds.), Handbook of Semitic Languages, Berlin-New York 2011, pp. 416-424.

„Steppe, Wüste (steppe, desert)“, in: M. P. Streck (ed.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie – Band XIII, Berlin 2011, pp. 146-149.

with U. Pietruschka (eds.), in connection with B. Eschment, Symbolische Repräsentation und Wirklichkeit nomadischen Lebens, Nomaden und Sesshafte 12 (2010).

Die akkadischen Verbalstämme mit ta-Infix = Alter Orient und Altes Testament 303 (2003). xii, 163 pp.

Das amurritische Onomastikon der altbabylonischen Zeit. Band 1: Die Amurriter. Die onomastische Forschung. Orthographie und Phonologie. Nominalmorphologie = Alter Orient und Altes Testament Band 271/1 (2000). 414 pp.

Die Bildersprache der akkadischen Epik = Alter Orient und Altes Testament Band 264 (1999). 258 pp.

Zahl und Zeit. Grammatik der Numeralia und des Verbalsystems im Spätbabylonischen = Cuneiform Monographs Band 5. Styx Publications, Groningen 1995 (= PhD Dissertation München 1992). xxix, 293 pp.


Marco Stockhusen, M.A.

„Nomadisierende Stammesverbände im Babylonien der neuassyrischen und neubabylonischen Zeit: das Beispiel der Damūnu“ (Manuscript 29 pages), in: A. Berlejung/M.P. Streck (eds.), Aramaeans, Chaldeans, and Arabs in Babylonia, Syria and Palestine in the First Millennium B.C., Leipziger Altorientalische Studien 3 (in print).


Catharina Papperitz, M.A.

Die Araber in neuassyrischer Zeit (unpublished MA-thesis, Leipzig 2011).