Zoltan Niederreiter

Zoltan Niederreiter has been a lecturer at ELTE Budapest since 2013. From 2007 to 2012 he was assistant professor at ELTE Budapest.  He holds a degree in Advanced Studies from the University of Paris VIII. He has worked on History and Knowledge of Civilizations, specializing in the Ancient Near East (2005).

The project

Title: Study of Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian objects kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Musée du Louvre

"I would like to work on a catalogue dealing with a temporary exhibition organised in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. In addition, I would like to study the objects lent by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Musée du Louvre to the exhibition that I co-curate and which would feature in the exhibition catalogue co-edited and author by me.
Since April 2022, we have been planning the temporary exhibition entitled Mesopotamia: Kingdom of Gods and Demons that will take place in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, between 26 September 2024 and 2 February 2025. Our main objective is to present the ancient Mesopotamian heritage, the culture that represents the cradle of civilisation, constituting the cultural reservoir for the Bible and thus exerting an indirect influence on European culture."

Hosting institution: Maison René-Ginouvès : HAROC (Histoire et Archéologie de l'Orient Cunéiforme) - ArScAn (UMR7041)

Selective Bibliography

Niederreiter, Z.: Catalogue of the Cylinder Seals in the Royal Museums of Art and History, I: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Periods (Circa 1000–500 B.C.), (Antiqua et Orientalia 7 – Assyriologia 10) Budapest 2020.

– Niederreiter, Z.: “19) A Neo-Assyrian seal depicting "Ištar, worshipped by an Assyrian King and Queen" and a scorpion as well: Notes on the BM WA 2002–05–15, 1 stamp seal, formerly kept in the Southesk Collection” Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires 2021/1, 42–49.

– Niederreiter, Z.: “Ištar at Nippur and Her Cult Place (Ebaradurĝarra, the Temple of Ungal-Nibru) in the Kassite and Later Periods” Archiv für Orientforschung 54 (2021) 358–371.– Niederreiter, Z.: “A Long-Forgotten Cylinder Seal of a Neo-Assyrian Eunuch” Revue d’Assyriologie et d’Archéologie Orientale 116/1 (2022) 167–171.

– Niederreiter, Z.: A Legal Text Dated to the Reign of Kandalānu kept in the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels” in: Philippe, C. – Monerie, J. (eds.) L’empreinte des empires au Proche-Orient ancien: Volume d’hommage offert à Francis Joannès, Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2023, 170-176.