ANTIC ORIENT (AO)

I am Professor of Prehistory at the University of Barcelona and an internationally recognised as an expert in various First Millennium BCE text genres and history. My research lines focus on answering current questions in philological, historical and archaeological research: the political and social history of Babylonia; Late Babylonian temple and literary texts; palaeography; religion; royal inscriptions. I have studied cuneiform tablets in museums in Europe, the US and the Middle East for the past two decades. I have directed a good number of research projects and I have participated in up to 20 national and international research. I have been awarded the ICREA Acadèmia Prize for Excellence in Research (Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) in 2008, 2014 and 2022. I collaborate with research teams on cuneiform inscriptions in Germany (Project RINBE, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Humboldt Stiftung, and Gerda Henkel Stiftung); and on southern Transjordan in the Iron Age in Jordan (German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman) and in Switzerland (Universität Zürich). At present, I am editing the corpus of cuneiform poetry (Divine Love Lyrics) with Nathan Wasserman (Hebrew University, Jerusalem). I am active in academic and scientific networks and scientific associations: Melammu Project, DOG, IAA, Alumni Network of JMU, OIMEA of LMU. In addition to my teaching at the University of Barcelona, I have been a faculty member at Venice International University (2015-2019). I have been visiting professor at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2022) and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2018, 2022). I have had Erasmus+ Mobility Grants for teaching at Yarmouk University-Irbid (Jordan) in 2017-2010 (Erasmus + KA107) and Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany), in 2019 (Erasmus+ 103). 

My current research project is called: Religious networks, sacred travelers and itineraries in late First Millennium BCE Babylonia: a view from temple and private archives (RelNet): www.ub.edu/relnet