Zoltán Niederreiter

Invited Researcher of DEA Programme Stay in France: from September 2th to September 30th, 2022

Training and distinctions of Zoltán Niederreiter

  • 2008 : Doctorat, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest.
  • 2005 : Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies, Université de Paris VIII : History and knowledge of civilizations, specialization: Ancient Near East
  • 2005 : Master of Archeology and 2003: Master of Assyriology, ELTE Budapest

Jobs and education of Zoltán Niederreiter

  • 2013 - : Senior lecturer ELTE Budapest
  • 2007 - 2012 :Assistant Professor ELTE Budapest
  • 2006 - : Non-permanent member - René-Ginovès House: HAROC (History and Archeology of the Cuneiform Orient) - ArScAn (UMR7041)

The project

Title: Study of Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid cylinder seals

Keywords: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian culture, art history of Mesopotamia, historical geography of the Near East

Selected publications

Bácskay, A.: "The Tyszkiewicz Amulet, a Chalcedony Pendant Inscribed with an Incantation on Thorn Bush: Notes on an Early Sumerian Kultmittelbeschwörung" Altorientalische Forschungen 46 (2) 2019, 174–185

Bácskay, A.: "A newly identified fragment of the Ur5-ra Tablet I, kept in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2019/3, 134–137 no. 75.

"Cylinder Seal Showing Pazuzu, Lulal, and Ugallu" In A.W. Lassen – E. Frahm – K. Wagensonner, eds., Ancient Mesopotamia Speaks: Highlights of the Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven – London 2019, 236 no. 58.

"Bead (Neck Stone) of Aššur-iddin, Palace Herald of Shalmaneser, King of Assyria" KASKAL 15 (2018) 69-85.

Benjamin Sass: "On a Neo-Assyrian period cylinder seal with a cult scene and an unusual Aramaic legend" Semitica et Classica 11 (2018) 219-226."The offering of Pirig̃-me, son of Ur-Ning̃irsu I, to the goddess Nin-MAR.KI: Human-faced bison statuettes from the Lagash II Dynasty" Akkadica 139 (2018) 127-158.

Benjamin Sass: "On a cylinder seal with a newly deciphered Arabian legend" Semitica 60 (2018) 273-293.

"Cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, stamp seals and scaraboids in the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo" CLARA: Classical Art and Archaeology 3 (2018) 1-14 and 18-20.

Földi Zsombor: "Addendum: A previously unpublished Old-Babylonian letter at the MCH" CLARA: Classical Art and Archaeology 3 (2018) 15-17.

"Two Pazuzu-head amulets inscribed with the standard B incantation" Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archéologie Orientale 111 (2017) 109-132.

"The offering of Kadašman-Enlil II to Ninurta: Lapis lazuli bead IAA 1965–210, formerly kept in the Sammlung Georg Hahn (Berlin)" Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2017/1, 26-28 no. 15.

"Les sources glyptiques de Tall Šēḫ Ḥamad” Syria 93 (2016) 389-395."A Neo-Assyrian Storage Jar Fragment with Measures of Capacity from Kilizu (Qaṣr Šemāmok), the Capital of an Assyrian Province" Mesopotamia 51 (2016) 55-58.

"An unpublished Neo-Assyrian cylinder seal (“Property of Adad-nasḫira, the eunuch of Bēl-tarṣi-ilumma”) kept in the Harvard Art Museums" Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2016/2, 81-82 no. 50.

"Cylinder Seals of Eleven Eunuchs (ša rēši Officials): A Study on Glyptics Dated to the Reign of Adad-nērārī III" State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 21 (2015) 117-156.

"Imagery of the Divine World: A classification of Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian divine figures" Albright News 20 (2015) 13.

"The Eleventh Archaizing Clay Cone with a Particular Funerary Text" Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archéologie Orientale 109 (2015) 133-141.

"Fourteen Ur III texts belonging to the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal and the Département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques" Akkadica 135 (2014) 73-106.

"Le rôle des insignes votifs et des insignes de pouvoir néo-assyriens (Un parallèle étonnant entre les deux catégories des masses d’armes)" In M. Dietrich - H. Neumann, Hrsg., Krieg und Frieden im Alten Vorderasien. 52e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale. International Congress of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology. Münster, 17.-21. Juli 2006 (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 401) Münster 2014, 567-600.

"La « sainte offrande » de Nergal-ēreš à Aššur et Adad en 775. Une interprétation de l'inscription votive de la masse d'armes Ass 10274 (VA 5929)" Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archéologie Orientale 103 (2009) 91-110.

"Le rôle des symboles figurés attribués aux membres de la Cour de Sargon II (Des emblèmes créés par les lettrés du Palais au service de l'idéologie royale" Iraq 70 (2008) 51-86.

"L'insigne de pouvoir et le sceau du grand vizir Sîn-ah-usur (Les symboles personnels d'un haut-dignitaire de Sargon II)" Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archéologie Orientale 99 (2005) 57-76.

"Un parallèle étonnant entre la légende du Roi de Kutha et une inscription d'Assarhaddon" Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires (2004: no. 1) 6-8

Published at 28 April 2022