The Old Assyrian Text Project

The Old Assyrian Text Project

Welcome to the portal of the Old Assyrian Text Project, a collaborative project designed to produce new editions of Old Assyrian archives and specialized studies of the Old Assyrian period. We intend to provide up-to-date information about the project itself and about Old Assyrian studies in general.

The project is sponsored by The Carlberg Foundation and involves a close collaboration between a group of scholars, at present Gojko Barjamovic, Jan Gerrit Dercksen, Karl Hecker, Thomas Hertel, Bert Kouwenberg, Guido Kryszat, Mogens Trolle Larsen,  Agnete Lassen, Cécile Michel, Nibal Muhesen, Xiaowen Shi, Ed Stratford and Klaas Veenhof.

At present the principal online resource of the OATP is:

Old Assyrian Prosopography Database

The Old Assyrian Text Project is an international scholarly network with the primary objectives to publish Old Assyrian texts (dated to c. 1900-1700 BCE) and conduct research in OA society (see the main OATP site for more information: oatp.ku.dk). The OATP has fostered a number of research projects and publications through the years and has been generously funded by the Carlsberg Foundation since 2000.

The OA Prosopograpy Project (OAPP) was conducted under the OATP by Thomas Hertel between the years 2009-2011. The current site (oatp.zxq.net) presents a selection of data processed during the OAPP in the form of an online, searchable database of Old Assyrian personal names, intended as a research tool for OA studies.

The database currently includes c. 33.000 individual entries drawn from c. 6000 texts out of a total of c. 10.000 available texts, and it will be updated regularly. The database can be queried through the form ‘OA personal names query’ ...