Dr. Christina Tsouparopoulou
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Address
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Vorderasiatische Archäologie
Marstallhof 4
69117 Heidelberg
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
- Oct 2011 - present: Postdoctoral Researcher SFB 933: C01 Near Eastern Archaeology
- Dec 2008 – July 2011: Postdoctoral Researcher. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin - Germany. Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) at UCLA. Editor of online Database for Ancient Near Eastern seals, sealings and seal impressions
- Jan 2008 - Dec 2008: Researcher. Institute of Asian and African Studies, Department of Assyriology. University of Helsinki, Finland. Editor of online Melammu Database. Funded by a Finnish Government Scholarship (CIMO)
Education
- 2009 PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Thesis title: “The material face of bureaucracy: Writing, sealing and archiving tablets for the Ur III state at Drehem”. Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge. Supervisor: Dr. Augusta McMahon. Examiners: Prof. Nicholas Postgate, Dr. Magnus Widell
- 2003 MPhil in World Archaeology. Thesis title: “Gender issues in Mycenaean and Mesopotamian archaeology: the case of the textile industry”. Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. Supervisor: Dr. Augusta McMahon
- 2002 BA honors in Archaeology and History of Art. Department of History and Archaeology. University of Athens, Greece. Areas of concentration: Mycenaean Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean
Publications
Monograps/ Edited Volumes
- The Ur III seals impressed on cuneiform documents from Puzrish-Dagan (Drehem) (forthcoming)
- The material face of bureaucracy: Writing, sealing and archiving tablets for the Ur III state at Drehem, PhD thesis, University of Cambridge 2009
- Materiality of Writing in Early Mesopotamia - edited volume, with Th. E. Balke, Materiale Textkulturen Series, Vol xx. Berlin: De Gruyter. In Preparation
Articles in journals/ contributions to books
- “Hidden messages under the temple: Foundation deposits and the restricted presence of writing in 3rd millennium BCE Mesopotamia”, in: Tobias Frese, Wilfried E. Keil, Kristina Krüger (eds), Verborgen, unsichtbar, unlesbar - Zur Problematik restringierter Schriftpräsenz, Reihe Materiale Textkulturen Band 2 Berlin: De Gruyter 2014: 23-38.
- "Progress report: an online database for the documentation of seals, sealings and seal impressions in the Ancient Near East", Studia Orientalia Electronica 2014. In Print.
- “Spreading the royal word: the (im)materiality of communication in early Mesopotamia”, in Enderwitz, S and R. Sauer (eds). Communication and Materiality in Pre-modern societies. Impacts of Materiality on Written and Unwirtten Forms of Communication, Materiale Textkulturen Series Vol 8. Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming)
- “Deconstructing textuality, reconstructing materiality in third millennium Mesopotamia”. In Balke, Th. E. and C. Tsouparopoulou (eds), Materiality of Writing in Early Mesopotamia, Materiale Textkulturen Series Vol xx, Berlin: De Gruyter (forthcoming)
- “On Ur III administrative procrastination”, Cuneiform Digital Library Notes 2014: 9.
- “Reflections on paratextual markers in Ur III administrative documents”, Textual Cultures 8.2 (2013) (forthcoming)
- “On the Aesthetics of Text: A personal note”, Material Text Cultures Blog 2013/5.
- “A reconstruction of the Puzrish-Dagan central livestock agency”, Cuneiform Digital Library Journal 2013/2: 1-20.
- “Killing and skinning animals in the Ur III period: The Drehem office managing dead animals and slaughter by-products”, Altorientalische Forschungen 40/1 (2013): 150-182.
- “On the journey to eternity: Memoirs of a cuneiform tablet and its tag”, Material Text Cultures Blog (2013/2)
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“The K-9 Corps of the Third Dynasty of Ur: the dog handlers at Drehem and the army”, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 102 (2012): 1-16
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“3D-Scans von Keilschrifttafeln - ein Werkstattbericht”, in 26. DV-Treffen der Max-Planck-Institute, 22 - 24. September 2009 in Berlin Assmann, W., C. Hausmann-Jamin, and F. Malisius (eds.), Göttingen: Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung (2010), p. 41-62 (with J. Kantel, P. Damerow, and S. Köhler)
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“Namnine-hedu: yet another Ur III princess”, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 56 (2008): 7-13E
In Preparation
- “Materialität”, in Sauer, R., M. Ott, T. Meier (eds.) Materiale Textkulturen. Konzepte – Materialien – Praktiken, Materiale Textkulturen Series Vol 1, Berlin: De Gruyter (with A. Hornbacher, A. Karagianni, and J.P. Schwindt)
- “Ton”, in Sauer, R., M. Ott, T. Meier (eds.) Materiale Textkulturen. Konzepte – Materialien – Praktiken, Materiale Textkulturen Series Vol 1, Berlin: De Gruyter (with T. E. Balke, S. Maul, D. Panagiotopoulos and A. Sarri)
- “Artefakt”, in Sauer, R., M. Ott, T. Meier (eds) Materiale Textkulturen. Konzepte – Materialien – Praktiken, Materiale Textkulturen Series Vol 1, Berlin: De Gruyter (with T. Meier)
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“An inscribed Mesopotamian foundation figurine in the National Archaeological Museum of Greece”
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“On the acculturation and/or transmutation of symbols, or how did we get from the power crown to the party crown”
Electronic Entries
- Database of seals, sealings and seal impressions of the Ancient Near East at http://cdlitest.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/search/seals/ (beta version)
- Short contributions to the online database of the Melammu Project http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/database
