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    Prof. Rocio Da Riva

    Prof. Rocio Da Riva

    Full Professor of Prehistory at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Barcelona

    Born in Madrid, Rocío Da Riva studied in Madrid, Ghent, Erlangen and Würzburg. She obtained her PhD at the University of Würzburg and is currently full professor in the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Barcelona. She has worked on the cuneiform collections of museums in Europe, North America and the Middle East (British Museum, Ashmolean Museum, Vorderasiatisches Museum, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Istanbul Archaeological Museum, Musée du Louvre and the Yale Babylonian Collection, among others). She has studied and edited Babylonian cuneiform texts, including the corpus of the Neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions. Her main research interests are Neo-Babylonian administrative and historical texts, the political history of Babylonia in the First Millennium BCE, temple ritual texts from Hellenistic Babylonia and literary texts from the Late Babylonian period, including the Divine Love Lyrics (in co-edition with Nathan Wasserman). Da Riva has published many books and articles on these topics, given lectures and seminars at the top universities and research centers around the world, and has also served as a visiting professor at the Venice International University. In addition, she has been a visiting researcher and has taught courses in several international institutions (Universität Wien, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Armenian State University, etc.)

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