Lectures in Summer Term 2025
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Long-term Academy Project on the Research on Seals and Seal Impressions starts in 2025
In spring 2025, the Academy Project KIŠIB. Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings will be launched at the Institute of for Near Eastern Archaeology.
The jointly realised academy project of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) in Munich and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Berlin is allotted to two institutes, one at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (under the direction of Prof. Dr. Adelheid Otto) and one at the Freie Universität Berlin (under the direction of Prof. Dr. Elisa Roßberger).
Within the specified project duration of 16 years, the interdisciplinary team of researchers in Near Eastern Archaeology, Assyriology, Digital Humanities, and IT will study and establish a representative digital corpus of ca. 80,000 seals and generate a well-structured annotated dataset of the seals’ pictorial and textual components.
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FARA - Iraq
After in-depth surveys from 2016-2018 and magnetometer prospections in 20218 and 2022 (Team Faßbinder), first excavations were conducted in 2022 and 2024. The project is directed by Prof. Dr. Adelheid Otto (LMU München), in cooperation with Prof. Abbas al-Hussainy (University Al-Qadissiyah).