BAGG Ariel M.
Private Lecturer
University of Heidelberg (Germany)
Antiquity
BIOGRAPHY
Main areas of research
History of technology of the Ancient Near East // Historical geography of the Ancient Near East //
Hydraulic installations in the Ancient Near East // Ships and navigation in the Ancient Near East
Since 2012 he is Private Lecturer at the Seminar for Ancient Near Eastern Languages and
Cultures/Assyriology, University of Heidelberg (Germany). Since 2010 he is chercheur asocié at the
Centre François Viète (Épistémologie, Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques), Brest/Nantes
(France).
Between 2009 and 2012 he was Private Lecturer at the Assyriological Institute, University of Leipzig
(Germany). At the same time, he was researcher in the project “Space and Mobility in Syro-Palestine
at the Time of the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empire” at the Institute for Old Testament
Studies, University of Leipzig.
Before he joined the Free University of Berlin as a private lecturer, he received his Habilitation at the
Free University of Berlin with a work about the Assyrians and the West.
For 6 years he was Associate Professor at the Assyriological Institute, Free University of Berlin.
Between 1999 and 2001 he was researcher in the project „Historical Geography of Mesopotamia“,
Assyriological Seminar, University of Tübingen (Germany).
Education
1997 // PhD with a dissertation about the Assyrian hydraulic installations at the University of
Tübingen.
1991–1996 // Study in Assyriology, University of Tübingen.
1991 // M.A. in History with a work about the destinataries in Polybius’ work. Faculty of Arts,
University of Buenos Aires (Argentina).
1984–1991 // Study in History (Classical History, Clasical Philology, Hebrew and American History)
at the Faculty of Arts, University of Buenos Aires.
1983–1990 // Senior Engineer at the Department of Steel Structures, Techint SACIFI.
1983 // Graduation as Civil Engineer. 1977–1983 Study in Civil Engineering at the Faculty for
Engineering Sciences, University of Buenos Aires.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Monographs
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Assyrische Wasserbauten, Mainz, 2000.
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Die Orts- und Gewässernamen der neuassyrischen Zeit. Teil 1: Die Levante, Wiesbaden,
2007.
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Die Assyrer und das Westland. Studien zur historischen Geographie und Herrschaftspraxis in
der Levante im 1. Jt. v. u. Z., Leuven, 2011.
Selected papers
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Irrigation in Northern Mesopotamia. Water for the Assyrian capitals (12 –7
Irrigation and Drainage Systems 14, 2000, 301–324.
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Dealing with water rights in the Ancient Near East, in: C. Ohlig et al. (ed.), Cura Aquarum in
Israel, Siegburg, 2002, 223–232.
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Assyrian Hydraulic Engineering. Tunnelling in Assyria and Technological Transfer, in: H.-D.
Bienert/J. Häser (eds.), Men of Dikes and Canals. The Archaeology of Water in the Middle
East, Rahden, 2004, 355–364.
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Technische Experten in frühen Hochkulturen: Der Alte Orient, in: W. Kaiser/W. König (eds.),
Geschichte des Ingenieurs. Ein Beruf in sechs Jahrtausenden, München-Wien, 2006, 4–31
(together with E. Cancik-Kirschbaum).
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Ancient Mesopotamian sewage systems according to the cuneiform sources, in: G. Wiplinger
(ed.), Cura Aquarum in Ephesus, Leuven, 2006, 273–279.
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Zisternen im Ostjordanland, in: M. van Ess/B. Faist/R. Dittmann (eds.), „Es ist schon lange
her. Das freut uns um so mehr“. Vorderasiatische Beiträge für Uwe Finkbeiner, Mainz, 2006,
611–631.
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Götter und Heroen als Wasserbauingenieure: Deiche und Kanäle in der sumerischen
Literatur, in: Ch. Ohlig (ed.), Cura Aquarum in Jordanien, Siegburg, 2008, 215–225.
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Mesopotamische Bauzeichnungen, in: G. Selz
altorientalischer Forschungen, Wien, 2011, 543–586.
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Brücken im Alten Orient: 2000 Jahre Brückenbaugeschichte, in: Bayerische Gesellschaft für
Unterwassearchäologie (ed.), Archäologie der Brücken, Regensburg, 2011, 42–47.
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Floods in the desert: How Nabataeans managed catastrophes, in: A. Berlejung (ed.), Disaster
and Relief Management, Tübingen, 2012, 311–330.
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Irrigation, in: D. T. Potts (ed.), A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East,
Malden-Oxford, 2012, 261–278
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