Publications

Monographs

• 2017 Alessia Fassone and Nathan Morello, Spionaggio biblico e nell’impero assiro, Roma.
• 2011 Fortificazioni di frontiera di epoca neo-assira, Ph.D Dissertation, Università degli Studi di Udine.

Editorship

In Preparation

• Beyond Military: Fortifications and Territorial Strategies in the Ancient Near East, Proceedings of the workshop held at the 60th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale “Fortune and Misfortune”, ed. with Cinzia Pappi and Simone Bonzano.

Articles

• Forthcoming N. Morello, “A New Digital Edition of the Assyrian Eponym Lists and Eponym Chronicles, with some philological and historical notes.” In: State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 26 (2020)
• Forthcoming N. Morello, “Israel and Phoenicia in the Assyrian Sources.” In Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, Shuichi Hasegawa, Peter Dubovsky (Hrsg.), Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel (HeBAI) Volume 10/2, Tübingen
• Forthcoming N. Morello, “Joy and Happiness in Mesopotamian Royal Inscriptions.” In: Karen Sonik und Ulrike Steinert (Hrsg.), The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East, London.
• Forthcoming Nathan Morello, “How to Do Things with Writing: Agency Marked by Writing, Levels of Literacy, and the Ashurnasirpal II’s Reliefs from Nimrud,” in J. C. Howard (ed.), The Northwest Palace Reliefs from Nimrud: Architecture, Iconography, Text, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis xx, pp. xxx.
• Forthcoming Nathan Morello, “Beyond the River, Before the Brook. Fortifications and Assyrian Frontier Policies on the Mediterranean coast,” in S. Bonzano, N. Morello, C. Pappi (eds.), Beyond Military. Papers from the Workshop “Beyond Military: Fortifications and Territorial Strategies in the Ancient Near East”, held at the 60th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale “Fortune and Misfortune”, July, 22nd 2014, Warsaw, Ancient Warfare Series, in preparation.
• 2016 Nathan Morello, “A GIŠ on a Tree: Interactions between Images and Inscriptions on Neo-Assyrian Monuments.” In: Hilgert, Markus (ed.) : Understanding Material Text Cultures : A Multidisciplinary View. Materiale Textkulturen, Vol. 9. pp. 31-68
• 2016 Nathan Morello, “Building the Frontier: frontier fortifications in Neo-Assyrian empire”, in Rune Frederiksen, Silke Müth, Peter Schneider and Mike Schnelle (eds.) Fokus Fortifikation. Conference on the Research of Fortifications in Antiquity. International Research Network Fokus Kortifikation (DFG), December 6th-9th 2012 at the Danish Institute at Athens, 43-52.
• 2015 Nathan Morello, “Founding frontier fortifications in the Neo-Assyrian empire. An Introduction”, forthcoming in proceedings of Broadening Horizons 4. 4th Conference of Young Researchers Working in the Ancient Near East, BAR International Series, 241-247.
• 2013 Nathan Morello, “Percezioni sensoriali del paesaggio montano nell’ottava campagna di Sargon II, 714 A.C.”, in S. Magnani (ed.), Le aree montane come frontiere. Spazi di interazione e connettività, Udine, 441–462.
• 2013 Nathan Morello, “Public and Private Archives from Fort Shalmaneser”, in State Archives of Assyria Bulletin vol. XIX, 239-265.
• 2013 Nathan Morello, “L’intelligence degli Assiri”, in Gnosis (Rivista italiana di intelligence) vol. 37, 25–33.
• 2012 Nathan Morello, “New Inscribed Bricks from Nimrud”, in Mesopotamia vol. XLVII, 113-116.
• 2009 Nathan Morello, Apsû, le Acque della Creazione in Mesopotamia, in HERA (Anno X, n° 114), July 2009, pp. 42-45.

Reviews

• Forthcoming: Nathan Morello, review of C. W. Tyson and V. R. Herrmann, Imperial Peripheries in the Neo-Assyrian Period, University Press of Colorado, 2018, in Archiv für Orientforschung 54.
• Forthcoming: Nathan Morello, review of Mattias Karlsson, Alterity in Ancient Assyrian Propaganda, State Archives of Assyria Studies XXVI, Helsinki 2017, in Archiv für Orientforschung 54.
• 2017 Nathan Morello, review of Salvatore Gaspa, Contenitori neoassiri: Studi per un repertorio lessicale, Philippika, vol. 67. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014, in Journal of the American Oriental Society 137.4, 890-891.
• 2013 Nathan Morello, review of Salvatore Gaspa, Alimenti e pratiche alimentari in Assiria: le materie alimentari nel culto ufficiale dell’Assiria del primo millennio a.C., History of the Ancient Near East/Monographs – XIII (S.A.R.G.O.N. Editirice e Libreria, Padova 2012), in Mesopotamia vol. XLVIII, 238–239.
• 2013 Nathan Morello, review of Olivier Rouault, Terqa Final Reports No. 2. Les textes des saisons 5 à 9, Bibliotheca Mesopotamica vol. 29, (Undena Publications, 2011), in Mesopotamia vol. XLVII, 195-196.
• 2011 Nathan Morello, review of Sabrina Favaro, Voyages et voyageurs a l' époque néo-assyrienne (Helsinki 2007), in Mesopotamia vol. XLVI, 191-192.

Digital Publications

• 2019vsaao/SAAS2
  Lemmatization of the Eponym lists, with their manuscripts, and Eponym Chronicles, with their manuscripts. Creation of a composite text for each group of lists. Work based on Alan Millard, The Eponyms of the Assyrian Empire 910-612 BC, State Archives of Assyria Studies Vol. 2
  (http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saas2)
• 2016-2020 RIAo
  Grayson, A. Kirk; Morello, Nathan; Novotny, Jamie, Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/riao/).

• Lemmatization of all the inscriptions edited in A.K. Grayson, Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Assyrian Periods (RIMA) vol. 1–3 (1987-1996). Initial updating of editions and translations.

Supervision of  Masterstudents working on the RIAo Project

• Yehonatan Hershkovitz
• Alexander Kudryavtsev
• Giulia Lentini
• Poppy Tushingham

Introductory historical Pages on historical Texts

Assyrian Kings

• Assyrian King List: introduction, editorial history and main sections
• Assyrian King List (composite text)
• The "Nassouhi List": introduction and complete translation with commentary notes
• The "Khorsabad List": introduction and complete translation with commentary notes
• The "SDAS List": introduction and complete translation with commentary notes
• A Fragment of an Assyrian King List (VAT 11554): introduction and complete translation with commentary notes
• A Fragment of an Assyrian King List (BM 128059): introduction and complete translation with commentary notes
• A Fragment of an Assyrian King List (VAT 9812): introduction and complete translation with commentary notes

Introductory historical pages on Assyrian history (in chronological order). Such pages contain the pages for the rulers and their inscriptions, listed below:

• From Akkad Colony to Independent City-State (ca. 2334-1809 BC)
• Sargonic and Ur III periods (ca. 2334-2025 BC)
• Puzur-Aššur Dynasty
• From Samsī-Addu to Mittani Cilent State (ca. 1808-1364 BC)
• The seventeen rulers who "dwelt in tents" and Samsī-Addu's forfathers
• Samsī-Addu Dynasty
• "Bēlu-bāni Dynasty"
• Assyria under Mittanian hegemony
• The Kingdom of Assyria from Aššur-uballiṭI to Aššur-rēša-iši I (1363-1115 BC)
• The Kingdom of Assyria from Tiglath-pileser I to Tukultī-Ninurta II (1114-884 BC)
• The Assyrian Empire (883-745 BC)

Introductory pages in RIAo (here in alphabetical order), for each ruler and their inscriptions included in the volumes (as author or as supervisor of – in chronological order – Yehonatan Hershkovitz, Poppy Tushingham, Giulia Lentini, Alexander Kudryavtsev).

• Abāzu (?-? BC)
  Adad-nārārī I (1305-1274 BC)
  Adad-nārārī II (911-891 BC)
  Adad-nārārī III (810-783 BC)
  Adāmu (?-? BC)
  Akiya (?-? BC)
  Aminu (?-? BC)
  (?-? BC)
  Apiašal (?-? BC)
  Arik-dīn-ili (1317-1306 BC)
  Ašarēd-apil-Ekur (1075-1074 BC)
  Aššur-apla-īdi (?-? BC)
  Aššur-bēl-kala (1073-1056 BC)
  Aššur-bēl-nišēšu (1417-1409 BC)
  Aššur-dān I (1178-1133 BC)
  Aššur-dān II (934-912 BC)
  Aššur-dān III (772-755 BC)
  Aššur-dugul (?-? BC)
  Aššur-nādin-apli (1206-1203 BC)
  Aššur-nādin-aḫḫē I (?-? BC)
  Aššur-nādin-aḫḫē II (1400-1391 BC)
  Aššur-nārārī I (?-? BC)
  Aššur-nārārī II (1424-1418 BC)
  Aššur-nārārī III (1202-1197 BC)
  Aššur-nārārī IV (1018-1013 BC)
  Aššur-nārārī V (754-745 BC)
  Aššur-rabi I (?-? BC)
  Aššur-rabi II (1012-972 BC)
  Aššur-rêm-nišēšu (1408-1401 BC)
  Aššur-rēša-iši I (1132-1115 BC)
  Aššur-rēša-iši II (971-967 BC)
  Aššur-šaddûni (?-? BC)
  Aššur-uballi ṭI (1363-1328 BC)
  Aššur-uballiṭ II (611–609 BC)
  Ashurnasirpal I (1049-1031 BC)
  Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC)
  Asīnum (?-? BC)
  Azaraḫ(?-? BC)
  Azuzu (?-? BC; reign of Man-ištūšu [2269-2255 BC])
• Bāzāyu (?-? BC)
  Belû (?-? BC)
  Bēlu-bāni (?-? BC)
• Didānu (?-? BC)
• Enlil-kudurrī-uṣur (1196-1192 BC)
  Enlil-nārārī (1327-1318 BC)
  Enlil-nāṣir I (?-? BC)
  Enlil-nāṣir II (1430–1425 BC)
  Erība-Adad I (1390-1364 BC)
  Erība-Adad II (1055-1054 BC)
  Erišum I (1974-1935 BC)
  Erišum II (1828/18-1809 BC)
  (1828/18-1809 BC)
  Erišum III (?-? BC)
• Ḫallî (?-? BC)
  Ḫanû (?-? BC)
  Ḫarḫaru (?-? BC)
  Ḫarṣu (?-? BC)
  Ḫayānu (?-? BC)
• Ikūnum (1934-1921 BC)
  Ilā-kabkabī (?-? BC)
  Ilī-Wēr (?-? BC)
  Ilu-šūma (?-? BC)
  Imṣu (?-? BC)
  Ipqi-Ištar (?-? BC)
  Iptar-Sîn (?-? BC)
  Išme-Dagān I (1775-? BC)
  Išme-Dagān II (?-? BC)
  Ititi (?-? BC)
• Kikkiya (?-? BC)
• Libāya (?-? BC)
  Lullāyu (?-? BC)
• Mandaru (?-? BC)
  Mutakkil-Nusku (?-? BC)
  Mut-Aškur (?-? BC)
• Narām-Sîn (1872-1829/19 BC)
  Nāṣir-Sîn (?-? BC)
  Ninurta-apil-Ekur (1191-1179 BC)
  Ninurta-tukultī-Aššur (?-? BC)
  Nuʾabu (?-? BC)
  Nūr-ili (?-? BC)
  Puzur-Aššur I (ca. 2025 [end of Ur III dominion over Aššur]-? BC)
  Puzur-Aššur II (1880-1873 BC)
  Puzur-Aššur III (?-? BC)
  Puzur-Sîn (?-? BC)
• Rīmu-x (?-? BC)
• Sahlāmu (?-? BC)
  Samānu (?-? BC)
  Samsī-Addu I (ca. 1808-1776 BC)
  Sargon I (1920-1881 BC)
  Šalim-aḫum (?-? BC)
  Shalmaneser I (1273-1244 BC)
  Shalmaneser II (1030-1019 BC)
  Shalmaneser III (858-824 BC)
  Shalmaneser IV (782-773 BC)
  Šarma-Adad I (?-? BC)
  Šarma-Adad II (?-? BC)
  Šamšī-Adad II (?-? BC)
  Šamšī-Adad III (?-? BC)
  Šamšī-Adad IV (1053-1050 BC)
  Šamšī-Adad V (823-811 BC)
  Šū-Nīnua (or Kidin-Nīnua) (?-? BC)
  Son of Urdānum (?-? BC)
  Sulilu (?-? BC)
• Tiglath-pileser I (1114-1076 BC)
• Tiglath-pileser II (966-935 BC)
  Tukultī-Ninurta I (1243-1207 BC)
  Tukultī-Ninurta II (890-884 BC)
• Ušpiya (?-? BC)
• Yakmenu (?-? BC)
  Yakmisu (?-? BC)
  Yangi (?-? BC)
  Yaškur-ilu (?-? BC)
• Zarriqum (?-? BC; reign of Amar-Suena [2046-2038 BC])
  Zū-abi (?-? BC)

Editorial work of "Das Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie", M. P. Streck et al. (ed.) Berlin: De Gruyter, vols 13–15.

Entries for "Das Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie", M. P. Streck et al. (ed.) Berlin: De Gruyter

• 2014–2015 Tīr-Dagān (Tēr-Dagān), RlA XIII (2014), 60.
• Tišnam (Tišam), RlA XIII (2014), 64.
• Tiš-Ulme, RlA XIII (2014), 66–67.
• Turum-natki, RlA XIII (2014), 212–213.
• Uṣi-nawir, RlA XIV/(2015), 506.
• Warassa, RlA XIV (2015), 644-645.
• Watelin, Louis-Charles RLA XIV (2016), 667-668.
• Zar(ša)šu(m), RlA XV (2017), 220-221.