DigEanna

Involved Persons

Hackl, Johannes (PI); Jursa, Michael (PI); Sandowicz, Małgorzata (PI); Lassen, Agnete (Cooperation Partner); Waerzeggers, Caroline (Cooperation Partner); Agut, Damien (Cooperation Partner); Mühl, Simone (Cooperation Partner); Lämmerhirt, Kai (Cooperation Partner); Jiménez, Enrique (Cooperation Partner); Helwing, Barbara (Cooperation Partner)

Research Teams

Jena: Johannes Hackl (PI), Marie Young (postdoc), Hannes Neitzke (student assistant), Sarah Grosser (student assistant), Kira Awege (student assistant)

Vienna: Michael Jursa (PI), Melanie Groß (postdoc), Matthias Adelhofer (postdoc), Jelena Gvozdenović (student assistant), Dylan Schimek (student assistant)

Warsaw: Małgorzata Sandowicz (PI), Julia Giessler (postdoc), Piotr Turowski (student assistant)

Funding

Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria. Project DOI 10.55776/I6927

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany. Project no. 533947529

National Science Centre (NCN), Poland. Project no. 2023/05/Y/HS3/00149

Abstract

The Babylonian cuneiform tablets conventionally labeled as the ‘Eanna temple archive’ represent one of the most important text groups from Ancient Babylonia, and they are arguably the most multifaceted collection of archival material from the best documented period of Babylonian history, the long sixth century. Counterintuitively, and numerous preceding studies (including several by the project coordinators) notwithstanding, no truly comprehensive investigation of these texts as a body of documentary data, as an ‘archive’, has ever been attempted. DigEanna will close this knowledge gap. Building on and extending the predecessor project NaBuCCo, DigEanna will make available the data and new insights as they are gained in this on-line database.