Former Team Members

MMag. Dr. Martina Schmidl

Postdoctoral Researcher (Philology)

Martina Schmidl studied Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Religious Studies at the University of Vienna, and obtained her PhD there in 2020 on administrative epistolography in the late sixth and early fifth centuries BCE.

Her research interests include epistolography and historical sociolinguistics, especially the usage of literary and everyday language to express identities, ideas, emotions and world views.

Selected publications

“Mirror, Mirror. Some Remarks on Structuring Devices in the Advice to a Prince”, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 112 (2022).

“Ad Astra: Graphic Signalling in the Acrostic Hymn of Nebuchadnezzar II (BM 55469),” Altorientalische Forschungen 48/2 (2021), 318-326.

“Some Remarks on Language Usage in Late Babylonian Letters”, in Ch. Barbati und Ch. Gastgeber (eds), 2017, Open Linguistics. Topical Issue on Historical Sociolinguistic Philology. De Gruyter Open, 375-394.

With J. Hackl and M. Jursa, with contributions by K. Wagensonner, 2014, Spätbabylonische Privatbriefe. Spätbabylonische Briefe 1. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 414/1. Münster.

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Institut für Altorientalistik und Vorderasiatische Archäologie
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Dr. des. Christine Kainert, M.A.

Postdoctoral researcher (Archaeology)

Christine Kainert studied Near Easten Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology and Assyriology at the Free University Berlin, where she also obtained her PhD in 2021. In 2018/19, she worked as a curatorial assistant at the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin. This was followed by positions at the German Archaeological Institute and at the Museum für Islamische Kunst Berlin.

Her research interests include the archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula, and the analysis of pottery and small finds as a tool to answer questions about manufacturing technologies, settlement dynamics, trade and interregional interaction.

Selected Publications

with N. Cholidis, Y. El Khoury, J. Eule, H. Gries, B. Helwing and L. Martin, “Der Babel-Bibel-Streit: Politik, Theologie und Wissenschaft um 1900, Eine Sonderausstellung des Vorderasiatischen Museums im Pergamonmuseum,” in: E. Cancik-Kirschbaum and T. L. Gertzen (eds), 2021, Der Babel-Bibel-Streit und die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Beiträge einer internationalen Konferenz vom 4.-6.11.2019 in Berlin. Investigatio Orientis 6, Münster, 249–284.

“The Pottery,” in: P. Drechsler (ed.), 2018, Dosariyah - Reinvestigating a Neolithic Coastal Community in Eastern Arabia. BFSA Monographs No. 19, Oxford, 183–198.

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Nina Gavrilyuk, B.A.

Student Assistant

Peter Scheurer, B.A.

Student Assistant

Peter Scheurer obtained his Bachelor of Arts in the programme for Conservation and Restoration/Excavation techniques at the HTW Berlin, with a focus on field archaeology and excavation techniques. He is currently enrolled in the Master programme Geoinformation at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik to further extend his knowledge on cartography and geoinformation. He took part in excavations in Germany and Turkey, working on surveying and documenting archaeological structures.

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