RAI website - Leiden University - Assyriology

On this page a list is given of all Ph.D. research which is now in progress. New entries are welcome as long as they concern research in Cuneiform Studies (Assyriology, Hittitology, Ugaritology and Near Eastern Archaeology).

Hammurabi's Managed Health Care Circa 1700 B.C.

Adapting the existing edicts, King Hammurabi of Babylon incorporated these managed care precepts in the Codex Hammurabi, a huge stone stele erected about 1700 B.C.:

Rates set for general surgery, eye surgery, setting fractures, curing diseased muscles and other specific health care services.
Fees set according to a sliding scale based on ability to pay.
Owners to pay for health care for their slaves.
Objective outcome measurement standards to assure quality of care.
Outcomes information management to include data collection and evaluation.
Consumer and patient's rights to be publicized, explained and made known to all.

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY

The Journal of the American Oriental Society, ISSN 0003-0279, is published quarterly in March, June, September and December by the American Oriental Society, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor and additional mailing offices

CHICAGO ASSYRIAN DICTIONARY PROJECT

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, initiated in 1921 by James Henry Breasted, is compiling a comprehensive dictionary of the various dialects of Akkadian, the earliest known Semitic language that was recorded on cuneiform texts that date from c. 2400 B.C. to A.D. 100 which were recovered from archaeological excavations of ancient Near Eastern sites. The Assyrian Dictionary is in every sense a joint undertaking of resident and non-resident scholars from around the world who have contributed their time and labor over a period of seventy years to the collection of the source materials and to the publication of the Dictionary.

ELISABETH N. COOPER

My primary research interests lie in the study of the language, history and archaeology of "Greater Mesopotamia," a region consisting of the lands of ancient Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey (8000 - 333 BCE).

Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

History of Mesopotamian Medicine providing a vast number of amzaing links.

Netherlands Institute for the Near East

The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) is located in Leiden, traditionally an important centre of Oriental studies in the Netherlands. Founded in 1939, the NINO has been publishing journals, monographs and other books dealing with the Near East ever since. It houses an extensive library and is host to the departments of Assyriology and Egyptology of Leiden University. In addition, it carries out research programmes in various branches of Near East studies.

The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project

The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, started in 1986, is a long-term undertaking to collect all published and unpublished Neo-Assyrian texts into an electronic database, Corpus of Neo-Assyrian (CNA), and maintain the database as a research tool.

DOCUMENTS

Documents from the Ancient Near East Old Assyrian Divorce Document

Tracing Assyrian Scholarship

Ancient Syria rife with corruption

Dutch archaeologists have unearthed a sprawling 3,400-year-old administrative centre of the Assyrian civilisation and found evidence that bribery was thriving at the time. A special archive of an interior minister was found, listing data about "employees accepting bribes, names of senior officials and the name of an Assyrian princess", the Syrian news agency SANA said. The archive is said to have belonged to Ashour Adein who was considered to be the most powerful man in the Assyrian state after the king in the Middle Kingdom. The ancient Assyrian empire, which developed around the city of Ashur on the Tigris River and south of Nineveh, reached its zenith in the 9th century BC under Ashurnasirpal II.

Associated Press, 11 August 1997

Medieval Sourcebook: SELECTIONS FROM THE ASSYRIAN LITURGY