ICREA Academia Award Winner 2022

Department of History and Archaeology, University of Barcelona

Montalegre 6-8 E-08001 Barcelona, Spain

Tel. + 34 93 403 75 47.

Email: mrdarivam@ub.edu

 

EDUCATION

1990-1993: Studies in Geography and History, Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).

1993-1994: Studies of Ancient History, Autonome University of Madrid (Spain).

1994-1995: Studies in Assyriology, University of Ghent (Belgium), Erasmus-ECTS Programme.

1995-1997: PhD studies, Autonome University of Madrid (Spain), with doctoral fellowships.

1997-1999: PhD studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany), Erasmus-PIC Programme.

1999-2001: PhD studies at the Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg (Germany), Fellowship of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).

2002: PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Assyriology). Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg, Germany (2002). Supervisors: Gernot Wilhelm (Würzburg) and Michael Jursa (University of Vienna). Qualification: opus eximium et summa cum laude.

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2000: Research Assistant in Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Assistentin BAT II a). Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University Julius-Maximilians of Würzburg, Germany.

2003-2007: Ramón y Cajal Researcher. Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Barcelona.

2007-2019: Associate Tenured Professor of Prehistory. Department of History and Archaeology, University of Barcelona.

2019- : Full Professor of Prehistory (Protohistory of the Ancient Near East). Department of History and Archaeology, University of Barcelona.

 

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Very good: English, German, Italian, Spanish and Catalan.

Good: French and Dutch.

Knowledge of ancient Languages: Akkadian, Sumerian, Hittite, Hurrian, Urartean, Latin.

 

RESEARCH

Research lines

Political and social history of Babylonia in the First Millennium BCE; Late Babylonian temple texts; Late Babylonian literary texts; Cuneiform Palaeography; Urban Religion; Mesopotamian Religion; Neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions; Archaeology of the Ancient Near East; Historiography of the Ancient Near East.

Current research project 

Member of the Archaeology Research Group GRACPE 2021 SGR 00232.

Research visibility

Researcher ID (Web of science): H-2609-2014 (Publons)

ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7861-6196

Academia.edu: http://ub.academia.edu/wwwubedu (Rocío Da Riva)

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rocio_Da_Riva

Humanities Commons: https://hcommons.org/members/dariva/

 

Direction of Archaeological Surveys and Excavations

2005-2010: Sites of Nahr el-Kalb, Brisa, Shir as-Sanam and Wadi as-Saba in Lebanon.

2015-: Site of Sela in Jordan.

Social, economic and cultural development of research

• Researcher with experience working with epigraphic material in various museums in Europe (British Museum London, Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin, Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Musée du Louvre Paris), in the United States (Yale Babylonian Collection, Metropolitan Museum of New York, Harvard Semitic Museum, Oriental Institute Museum Chicago) and in the Middle East (Istanbul Archaeological Museum, Istanbul).
• Researcher with numerous visits and research activities with a duration of less than three months in universities and institutions in Europe, North America and the Middle East: British Museum (London, UK); Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, UK); National Archives (Kew, UK); Vorderasiatisches Museum and Altorientalisches Institut Freie Universität (Berlin, Germany); Frobenius Institut, Johan Von Goethe-Universität (Frankfurt aM, Germany); Julius-Maximilians Universität (Würzburg, Germany); Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (München, Germany); Eberhard Karls Universität (Tübingen, Germany); Ca Foscari University (Venice); University of Pennsylvania Museum (Philadelphia, USA); Oriental Institute, University of Chicago (United States); Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Toronto Istanbul Archaeological Museum (Turkey); Museum of Beirut, Directorate General of Antiquities, American University of Beirut National Academy of Sciences , Armenian State University, and Yerevan State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan, Yerevan ; Chuo University, Tokyo (Japan); Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel); Yarmouk-University Irbid (Jordan),
• Organizer of more than 10 international conferences and workshops, participation in more than 70 international conferences and workshops. Participation in more than 70 invited lectures, seminars and guest seminars, and more than 15 public lectures (science popularization).

 

ACTIVITIES AS VISITING RESEARCHER AND VISTING PROFESSOR (selection)

1994-1995: Institut voor Talen en Culturen van het Nabije Oosten en Noord-Afrika. University of Gent (Belgium).

1998– : Research activities at the Vorderasiatisches Museum (Berlin); Musée du Louvre (Paris); Yale Babylonian Collection (New Haven); Istanbul Archaeological Museum (Istanbul), etc.

1998: Near Eastern Department. British Museum, London (United Kingdom).

1999: School of Humanities. University of Western Australia, Nedlands (Australia).

1999-2002: Lehrstuhl für Altorientalistik. Universität Julius-Maximilians Würzburg (Germany).

2008-2009: Visiting Researcher (01.10.2008-31.01.2009), José Castillejo Mobility Research Grant, Spanish Ministry of Education at the Institut für Orientalistik, University of Vienna.

2012: Visiting Researcher (01.06.12-31.08.12), José Castillejo Mobility Research Grant, Spanish Ministry of Education at the Institut für Orientalistik, University of Vienna.

2016: Visiting Researcher (01.07.16-30.09.16) Salvador Madariaga Mobility Research Grant, Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport at the Institut für Altertumswissenschaften, Lehrstuhl für Altorientalistik. Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Julius-Maximilians Würzburg.

2021: Fellow of the Fellowship-Programm der Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe 2615 “Rethinking Oriental Despotism”, Freie Universität Berlin (Oct.-Nov. 2021).

2022: Visiting Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, may 2022.

2022: Fellow of the Fellowship-Programm der Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe 2615 “Rethinking Oriental Despotism”, Freie Universität Berlin (Jun.-Jul. 2022).

2021: Professeur Invité. École d’Histoire de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Nov.-Dec. 2022).

 

AWARDS

ICREA Academia Prize for Excellence in Research 2008 (2009-2013). Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies.

ICREA Academia Prize for Excellence in Research 2014 (2015-2019). Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies.

ICREA Academia Prize for Excellence in Research 2022 (2023-2027). Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies.

 

MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

1999– : Member of the Deutsche Orient Gesellschaft (DOG).

2001–: Member of the Alumni Association of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.

2012– : Member of the International Association of Assyriology (IAA).

2015-: Senior Board Member of the Melammu Project (by invitation).

2019– : Member of the Deutscher Verband für Archäologie (DVA).

2020-: Alumni Ambassador of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (by invitation).

2020-: Member of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR).

 

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST (selection)

2014–: Faculty Member at the Advanced Course Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome, and the Near East Venice International University and Ca Foscari University, Venice.

2015– : Referee for the National Evaluation and Foresight Agency (ANEP), area of Philology.

2016– : Member of the OIMEA Advisory Committee, Official Inscriptions of the Middle East in Antiquity (http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon7/abouttheproject/index.html)

2016– : Member of the RINBE Editorial Board, Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Empire https://www.en.ag.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/chairs/chair_radner/research_radner/rinbe/index.html

2018-2022: Member of the Advisory Board of Classica et Orientalia (Harrassowitz Verlag)

2021- : Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Tel Aviv Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University (Maney Publishing, Taylor and Francis).

2022–: Board member of the Dan David Prize, Dan David Foundation (Israel).

 

TEACHING

2000-2001: University of Würzburg, Department of Oriental Studies (Germany).

2003-2004: University of Barcelona, Department of Semitic Studies (Spain).

2004– : University of Barcelona, Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology/Department of History and Archaeology (Spain).

2015-2019: Venice International University (Italy), Advanced seminars.

2017-2018: Yarmouk University-Irbid (Jordan), Program: Erasmus+ KA107 Mobility Grant, 5.10.17-12.10.17.

2018-2019: Yarmouk University-Irbid (Jordan), Program: Erasmus+ KA107 Mobility Grant, 25.10.18-01.11.18.

2019-2019: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany), Program: Erasmus+ 103 Mobility Grant, 13-17.05.2019.

2022: École d’Histoire de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France), Professeur Invité, 28.11.2022-18.12. 2022

 

PUBLICATIONS

1.Monographs (single authored)

[1]       1997, Los directores de la Escuela de Telecomunicación en su primer medio siglo (1913-1966). Cuadernos de Historia de las Telecomunicaciones 1. Madrid, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación.

[2]       2002, Der Ebabbar-Tempel von Sippar in frühneubabylonischer Zeit (640-580 v.Chr.). Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 291. Münster, Ugarit Verlag.

[3]       2008, The Neo-Babylonian Royal Inscriptions: An Introduction. Guides for the Mesopotamian Textual Records (GMTR), 4. Münster, Ugarit Verlag.

[4]       2012, The Twin Inscriptions of Nebuchadnezzar at Brisa (Wadi esh-Sharbin, Lebanon): a Historical and Philological Study. Archiv für Orientforschung Bhft. 32. Horn, Berger & Söhne.

[5]       2013, The inscriptions of Nabopolassar, Amēl-Marduk and Neriglissar, Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records, 3. Berlin-Boston, Walter De Gruyter. 

[6]       2017, Arqueólogos, etnólogos y espías: La misión de Leo Frobenius en Arabia y Eritrea (1914-1915). Bellaterra Arqueología. Barcelona, Bellaterra.

[7]       R. Da Riva, 2022, Babilonia. Una introducción a su historia más reciente (900-539 a.c.). Bellaterra Arqueología. Barcelona, Bellaterra.

2. Forthcoming monographs

[1]       R. Da Riva and N. Wasserman, Gods in Love: A Critical Edition and Analysis of the 'Divine Love Lyrics'. Leiden: Brill. [expected publication date: 2025].

[2]       R. Da Riva, Babylonian Temple Texts.  Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records. Berlin-Boston, Walter De Gruyter [expected publication date: 2026]

3. Edited volumes

[1]       2015, R. Da Riva and J. Vidal, Descubriendo el Antiguo Oriente: estudiosos de Mesopotamia y Egipto a finales del s. XIX y principios del s. XX. Bellaterra Arqueología. Barcelona, Bellaterra.

[2]       2019, R. Da Riva, M. Lang and S. Fink, Literary Change in Mesopotamia and Beyond and Routes and Travelers between East and West. Melammu Workshops and Monographs 2. Münster: Zaphon Verlag.

[3]       2022, R. Da Riva, A. Arroyo and C. Debourse, Ceremonies, feasts and festivities in Ancient Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean World: Performance and Participation. Proceedings of the 11th Melammu Workshop. Münster: Zaphon Verlag.

 

4. Articles in peer and editor reviewed, international and indexed journals (single-authored unless indicated)

[1]       1999/2000 (R. Da Riva and E. Frahm), “Shamash-shum-ukin, die Herrin von Ninive und das babylonische Königssiegel”, Archiv für Orientforschung 46/47: 156-182

[2]       2001, “Sippar in the Reign of Sin-shum-lishir”, Altorientalische Forschungen 28: 40-64

[3]       2003, “BM 114354: un nuevo texto edel babi”, Aula Orientalis 20: 249-251

[4]       2003, “Las tablillas del templo de Šamaš Parte I: El archivo”, Aula Orientalis 21/1: 139-143

[5]       2003/2004, “Pfründe in Eanna in der Zeit der Unruhe”, Archiv für Orientforschung 50: 245-254

[6]       2004, “Las tablillas del templo de Šamaš Parte II: La administración y los escribas”, Aula Orientalis 21/2: 268-270

[7]       2004, “Las tablillas del templo de Šamaš Parte III: Agricultura y ganadería”, Aula Orientalis 22: 170-174

[8]       2004, “Los trabajos de Nabopolasar en el templo de Šarrat-Sippar”, Aula Orientalis 22: 205-209

[9]       2006,  “Los pastos del Ebabbar”, Historiae 3: 25-34

[10]     2007, “Maledicta Mesopotamica. Insultos e imprecaciones en el Próximo Oriente Antiguo”. Historiae 4: 25-57

[11]     2008,  “La guerra en el antiguo Oriente”, Historiae 5: 1-9

[12]     2008, “The Nebuchadnezzar Inscription in Brisa”, Bulletin d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises 12: 161-188

[13]     2009, “Desde la muralla de Media a los cedros del Líbano: unos apuntes de geografía del Próximo Oriente Antiguo”, Geographia Antiqua 18: 217-226

[14] 2009, “Lawrence of Arabia’s forerunner. The bizarre enterprise of Leo Frobenius, aka Abdul Kerim Pasha, in Arabia and Eritrea (1914-1915)”, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes  99: 29-111

[15]     2011, “The Inscriptions in Shir as-Sanam and Wadi es-Saba”, Bulletin d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises 15, 313-326

[16]     2013, “Neo-Babylonian monuments at Shir es-Sanam and Wadi es-Saba (North Lebanon)”, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 103: 87-100

[17]     2013, “Nebuchadnezzar II's Prism (EŞ 7834): a new edition”, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 103/2: 196-229

[18]     2016 (R. Da Riva and Dario Biocca), “The secret mission of Leo Frobenius in Arabia and Eritrea (1914-1915)”. U. Freitag, Ph. Pétriat and M. Strohmeier (eds). Arabian Humanities n°6: Movements and flows in the Arabian Peninsula, the Red Sea and the Gulf region during WWI. URL : http://cy.revues.org/3099 ; DOI : 10.4000/cy.3099

[19]     2016, “El yacimiento de Sela (Jordania) La expansión imperial neo-babilónica en el altiplano de Edom a mediados del I milenio a.C.”, Historiae 13: 31-39

[20]     2017 (R. Da Riva, J. R. Muñiz, M- L. Corrada, E. Jariri, D. Gaspar, M. Madrid, R. Marsal), “An archaeological survey of the site of as-Silaʿ/Selaʿ (Tafila)” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 58: 623-640.

[21]     2017, “Il re Nabopolassar, la storiografia classica e la leggenda della distruzione dell'Assiria”, KASKAL - Rivista di storia, ambienti e culture del Vicino Oriente Antico, 13, 209-218.

[22]     2017, “The Figure of Nabopolassar in Late Achaemenid and Hellenistic Historiographic Tradition: BM 34793 and CUA 90”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 76/1: 75-92

[23]     2017, “A new attestation of Habigalbat in Late Babylonian sources,” Die Welt des Orients, 47: 259-264

[24]     2017, “Towards a long-term place biography of Nahr el-Kalb”, Antiguo Oriente 15: 13-32.

[25]     2017, “Algunos apuntes sobre las inscripciones reales de la dinastía “caldea” (626-539 a.C.): una fuente documental privilegiada para el estudio del pasado de Babilonia”, Historiae 14: 53-86

[26]     2017, “Espía y arqueólogo al servicio del Káiser: La misión secreta de Leo Frobenius en Arabia y Eritrea durante la Primera Guerra Mundial” Historiae 14: 141-144

[27]     2017, (R. Da Riva and R. Marsal), “Estudio preliminar del yacimiento de Sela (Tafila, Jordania)”, Akros, Revista de Patrimonio, nº 15: 7-14

[28]     2018, “Addendum to Rocío Da Riva, A new attestation of Habigalbat in Late Babylonian sources, WdO 47/2 (2017) 259–264,” Die Welt des Orients, 48: 96-98

[29] 2018 (R. Da Riva and G. Galetti), “Two Temple Rituals from Babylon”, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 70: 189-227

[30]     2018, “Neo-Babylonian Rock-cut Monuments and Ritual Performance: The Rock Reliefs of Nebuchadnezzar II in Brisa revisited”, in O. Lipschits and Y. Cohen (eds), Nebuchadnezzar - History, Archaeology and Memory, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel 7.1: 17-41 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co)

[31]     2018, “The Neo-Babylonian Palace as Centre of the World”, ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies (AJNES) XII/1 2018: 96–108.

[32]     2019, “The angry Ištar of Eturkalamma: BM 32482+ and the Conservation of Cultic Traditions in the late Babylonian Period”, Iraq 81: 87-105

[33]     2020, “The Nabonidus Inscription in Sela (Jordan): Epigraphic Study and Historical Meaning”, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 110/2: 176-195

[34]     2021, R. Da Riva, J. Santos and M. Madrid, “The Mortars from rock-cut hydraulic structures of as-Sila (Sela) in Southern Jordan:  Mineralogical characterization and Radiocarbon dating”, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 21/3: 37-63. http://maajournal.com/Issues/2021/Vol21-2/3_Da%20Riva_et_al_21(2).pdf

[35]     2022, R. Da Riva, R. Marsal, M. Madrid, E. Miguel, J. Marín, E. Allué and M. Lozano, “The site of Sela: archaeological campaign 2016”. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 60

[36]     2022, “BM 40757: Marduk’s arrival to the Akītu temple on the 8th of Nisan”, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie 112: 107-123

[37]     2022, “The Merdītu-Offerings: Animal Sacrifice in First-Millennium Babylonian Religious Contexts”, Near Eastern Archaeology 85/4: 280-

[38]     2023, R. Da Riva and J. Novotny, “A Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II from Uruk in the Cindy and David Sofer Collection displayed in the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem”, Israel Oriental Studies 22: 3-29

[39]     2023, T. Alstola, P. Coro, R. Da Riva, S. Fink, M. Jursa, I. Kottsieper, M. Lang, M. Willis Monroe, L. Pearce, R. Pirngruber, K. Ruffing  and S. Svärd, “Sources at the End of the Cuneiform Era”, Studia Orientalia Electronica 11: 5-29, DOI 10.23993/store.129801

[40]     2023, G. Galetti and R. Da Riva, “Two Incantations for the Recapture of Runaway Slaves”, Die Welt des Orients 53: 4-26

[41]     2025, P. Corò and R. Da Riva, “The cuneiform sources on the Seleucid king: negotiating new narratives on traditional supports”, Orientalia Orientalia 93.1: 110–146

5. Book Chapters (single-authored)

[1]       2009, “The Nebuchadnezzar Inscription in Nahr el-Kalb”, pp. 255-302, A. –M. Afeiche (ed.) Le Site du Nahr el-Kalb, Bulletin d'archéologie et d'architecture libanaises Hors Série 5. Beirut, Ministère de la Culture.

[2]       2010, “A lion in the cedar forest. International politics and pictorial self-representations of Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BC)”, pp. 165-193, J. Vidal (ed.): Studies on War in the Ancient Near East. Collected Essays on Military History. Alter Orient und Altes Testament (AOAT), 372. Münster, Ugarit Verlag.

[3]       2017, “Leo Frobenius in Romania during the First World War", pp. 53-63, F. Randazzo (ed.) La Belle Epoque. Uomini, idee e storie nazionali. Libellula Edizioni, Tricase.

[4]       2020, “Los textos rituales de los templos en época tardo-babilónica (ss. IV–I a.C.)", pp. 180-193, L. Rovira and F. Luciani (ed.), El Cercano Oriente antiguo. Editorial de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe (Argentina).

[5]       2020, “Jealousy in Akkadian Love Literature: Zarpanītu in the Divine Love Lyrics ”, pp. 306-334, S. Hsu and J. Llop Raduà (eds.), The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. CHANE 116, Brill: Leiden.

[6]       2020, “Celebraciones salvajes y rituales sexuales en la antigua Mesopotamia. Las Líricas Amorosas Divinas, los celos y el deseo femenino en la sociedad patriarcal babilonia del I milenio a.C.”, pp. 29-46, M. Fargas (ed.), Alternativas. Mujeres, género e historia. Edicions Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona

[7]       2023, “Adobes para la “Puerta de los Dioses”, la construcción de  estructuras defensivas en Babilonia a mediados del I milenio a.C.”, pp. 27-39, O. Rodríguez Gutiérrez and A. Jiménez Viera (coords.), Adobes & cía. Estudios multidisciplinares sobre la construcción en tierra desde la prehistoria hasta nuestros días. Colección Spal Monografías de Arqueología 48. Sevilla: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla.

 

6. Book Chapters from publications in congress proceedings and in collective works (peer-reviewed; single-authored unless indicated)

[1]       2010, “Dynastic gods and favourite gods in the Neo-Babylonian period”, pp. 45-62. G. Lanfranchi (ed.), Concepts of Kingship in Antiquity. Proceedings of the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop Held in Padova, Italy, from Novembre 29th to December 1st, 2007, History of the Ancient Near East / Monographs, XI. Padova, Sargon slr.

[2]       2012, “Recent findings in the Biqa’ Valley (Lebanon): The last columns of the Old-Babylonian Brisa inscription (WBA) of Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BC)”, pp. 259-270. F. Borrell et al. (eds), Broadening Horizons 3: Conference of Young Researchers Working in the Ancient Near East. Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

[3]       2015, “Enduring Images of an Ephemeral Empire. Neo-Babylonian Inscriptions and Representations in the Western Periphery," pp. 603-630 in R. Rollinger and E. van Dongen (eds), Mesopotamia in the Ancient World: Impact, Continuities, Parallels, Melammu Symposia 7 (Münster: Ugarit-Verlag).

[4]       2015 “Robert Koldewey y las excavaciones de Babilonia,” pp. 247-276 in R. Da Riva and J. Vidal (eds), Descubriendo el Antiguo Oriente: estudiosos de Mesopotamia y Egipto a finales del s. XIX y principios del s. XX (Ed. Bellaterra, Barcelona).

[5]       2016, “L’empire en guerre. Quelques considérations sur l’aspect militaire de la dynastie néo-babylonienne,” pp. 115-122 in Ph. Abrahami, C. Wolff (eds), Kakkêka rukusma (“Ceins tes armes!”) 2e Rencontre d'histoire militaire du Proche-Orient ancien (Lyon, 17-18 octobre 2013) Revue Internationale d’Histoire Militaire Ancienne (HiMA), no 3,  Paris, Picard.

[6]       2018, R. Da Riva and M. Meier, “Author and audience: The texts and their sitz im leben,” Pp. 307-318 in R. Rollinger et al. (eds), Conceptualizing Past, Present and Future Proceedings of the Ninth Symposium of the Melammu Project Held in Helsinki / Tartu May 18-24, 2015. (Münster: Ugarit-Verlag).

[7]       2018, “El yacimiento de Sela en Jordania: estructuras hidráulicass en el altiplano de Edom durante la Edad del Hierro,” pp. 77-80 in M. Salgot (ed.). L’Any de l’aigua a les acadèmies catalanes. Cicle d’Actes de les Acadèmies de Catalunya entorn de l’Aigua 2015-2016. Barcelona: Les Acadèmies de Catalunya.

[8]       2018, “Kaṛuyc’ner ev kaysrut’yunner,” pp. 234-249 in Poghosyan, S., Piliposyan, A., Shirinyan, L., Hovhannisyan, E., Grekyan, Y., Szuromi, Sz. A., Mkrtichyan, A., Tubach, J. J., Sokołowski, M., Sinova, I. (eds) Azg, Petut’yun, Hayrenik’. Petakanut’yan gałap’arə. Errord miǰ azgayin gitažołovi (Erevan, 04.05.2018) nyut’eri žołovacu (Nation, State, Motherland, Ideology of State. Third International Scientific Conference (Yerevan, 04.05.2018). Materials of Conference. Yerevan.

[9]       2019 R. Da Riva and S. Fink, “Introduction,” pp. 107-111 in R. Da Riva, M. Lang and S. Fink (eds.). Literary Change in Mesopotamia and Beyond and Routes and Travelers between East and West. Melammu Workshops and Monographs 2. Münster: Zaphon Verlag.

[10]     2020, “Introduction Panel 3: War and Ritual,” pp. 219-228 in Droß-Krüpe, K., Fink, S., Rollinger, R., Ruffing, K. (eds.), Societies at War. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

[11]     2020, R. Da Riva and S. Ponchia, “Arbail(-)lāmur! (2)On people from and to Arbela. The Assyrian community in Babylonia during the Neo-Babylonian Period: the case of Mannu-akī-Arbaʾil,” pp. 181-184 in F. Alpi, Z. Bradosty, J. Giraud, J. MacGinnis and R. Mattila (eds.), Arbela Antiqua. Actes du colloque international d’Erbil (7-10 avril 2014) tenu sous la présidence de Zidan Bradosty: Arbèles antique – Histoire d’Erbil  pré-islamique. Bibliothèque Archéologique Et Historique, 218 Beyrouth: Presses de l'Ifpo.

[12]     2021, “Music and Ritual in Ancient Mesopotamia. The evidence from the Late Babylonian Temple Festivals,” pp. 105-125 in R. Eichmann and D. Shehata (eds.), Studien zur Musikarchäologie XII, Music Beyond Cultural Borders Vorträge zum Workshop „Music Beyond Cultural Borders“ im Rahmen des 33. Deutschen Orientalistentags an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität in Jena, 19. – 20. September 2017/ Papers from the Workshop “Music Beyond Cultural Borders” held at the 33rd Deutscher Orientalistentag at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, 19 – 20 September, 2017, Orient-Archäologie 43: 105-125.

[13]     2022, “Urban Religion in I Millennium BCE Babylonia: Official cult and the public space”, pp. 763-789 in C. Bonnet et al, (eds.), Naming and mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean. Spaces, mobilities, imaginaries. Berlin and Boston: Walter De Gruyter. DOI: 10.1515/9783110798432-040

[14]     2024, “El proyecto de Sela, altiplano de Edom”, pp. 220-227 in Juan Luis Montero (ed.), La arqueología española en Tierra Santa (Jordania, Palestina e Israel). Pasado y presente. Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación. 

[14]     2025, “Chapter 4. The “Juniper Garden”: from a setting of divine love to a political arena”, pp. 148-165, K. Ulanowski (ed.), Sacred Places. CHANE xx, Brill: Leiden.

 

7. Articles in Festschriften (liber amicorum), peer-reviewed; single-authored

[1]       2001, “Recogiendo leña en los jardines de Shamash”, pp. 81-94, J. Córdoba (ed.), Sha tudu idu. Homenaje al Prof. Ángel R. Garrido Herrero. ISIMU 2. Madrid, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

[2]       2002, “Schafe, die aus den Häusern herbeigeführt wurden: BM 78910 und die Rolle des privaten Spenders (karibu) im neubabylonischen Sippar”, pp. 57-60, C. Wunsch (ed.), Mining the Archives, Festschrift für Christopher Walker on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. Babylonische Archive 1. Dresden, Islet Verlag.

[3]       2010, “Another Brick in the Median Wall”, pp. 55-65, A. Kosyan et al. (eds), Urartu and Its Neighbors, Festschrift in Honor of Nicolay Harutyunyan in Occasion of His 90th Birthday. Aramazd V/1-2, Yerevan, Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies.

[4]       2012, “BM 67405 and the Cross Country Walls of Nebuchadnezzar II”, pp.15-18, N. Wyatt, G. del Olmo and J. Vidal (eds), The Perfumes of Seven Tamarisks, Studies in Honour of Wilfred G. E. Watson. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 394. Münster, Ugarit Verlag.

[5]       2014, “Assyrianisms and Assyrian influence on the Neo-Babylonian inscriptions”, pp. 99-125, S. Gaspa, A. Greco, D. Morandi, S. Ponchia and R. Rollinger (eds), FROM SOURCE TO HISTORY, Studies on Ancient Near Eastern Worlds and Beyond Dedicated to Giovanni Battista Lanfranchi. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 412. Münster, Ugarit Verlag.

[6]       2014, “The East India House Inscription. A new duplicate from the British Museum (BM 122119)”. Festschrift in Honor of Armen Petrosyan. Aramazd VIII/1-2 (2013-2014): 186-190, Yerevan, Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies.

[7]       2019, “The King of the Rock Revisited: the site of as-Sila (Tafila, Jordan) and the inscription of Nabonidus of Babylon,” pp. 161-174, P. S. Avetisyan, R. Dan and Y. H. Grekyan (eds.), Over the Mountains and Far Away. Studies in Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, Oxford, Archaeopress.

[8]       2021, “Els textos rituals dels temples en època babilònica tardana (s. iv-i aC)” pp. 195-207, A. Alberni, L. Cifuentes, J. Sananach, A. Soler (eds.), «Qui fruit ne sap collir»: homenatge a la prof. Lola Badia en el seu 70è aniversari, 2 vols. Barcelona, Edicions UB & Editorial Barcino.

[9]       2021, “In and around the Court of Bēl and the Cultic Topography of the Esagil according to Late Babylonian Ritual Texts” pp. 179-220, Gabbay, U. and Gordin, Sh. (eds.), Individuals and Institutions in the Ancient Near East: A Tribute to Ran Zadok. Boston/Berlin, De Gruyter. [Scholarly Publishers Indicators ICEE 95.25].

[10]     2023, “Ideología política y arquitectura monumental en Babilonia: el palacio real como metáfora del imperio”, pp. 615-631, F. Nuñez et al. (eds.), Entre Málaga y Tiro. Una travesía mediterránea en memoria de la profesora María Eugenia Aubet Semmler, Monográficos de Mainake, Anejo 4. Málaga, Centro de Ediciones de la Diputación de Málaga,.

[11]     2024, “Chapter 25: On Goats, Mountains and the Elusive Babylonian Royal Seal”, pp. 338-348, B. Sass and L. Battini (eds.), Mortals, deities and divine symbols. Rethinking ancient imagery from the Levant to Mesopotamia Studies offered to Tallay Ornan, Series Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology, Oxford, Archaeopress.

Preprint: https://huji.academia.edu/FestschriftTALLAYORNANPREPRINTS

 

8. Review articles (in peer reviewed and indexed journals; single-authored)

[1]       2003, Review of “Veysel Donbaz, Matthew W. Stolper, Istanbul Murašû Texts, Aula Orientalis 21: 153-155

[2]       2003, Review of “W. Sallaberger et al., Literatur, Politik and Recht in Mesopotamien, Festschrift C. Wilcke”, Aula Orientalis 21/2: 279-282

[3]       2003, Review of “M. Witte and S. Alkier, Die Griechen und der Vordere Orient. Beiträge zum Kultur- und Religionskontakt zwischen Griechenland und dem Vorderen Orient im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr”, Aula Orientalis 21: 294-300          

[4]       2003/2004, Review of “J. Bláquez, Dioses, mitos y rituales de los semitas occidentales en la antigüedad”, “J. Bláquez, Mitos, dioses, héroes en el Mediterráneo antiguo”, Archiv für Orientforschung 50: 491-492

[5]       2004, Review of “J.J.A. van Dijk, M.J. Geller, Ur III Incantations from the Frau Professor Hilprecht-Collection, Jena, Texte und Materialien der Hilprecht-Collection 6”, Aula Orientalis 22: 187-188

[7]       2006, Review of “Bojana Janković, Vogelzucht und Vogelfang in Sippar im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. AOAT (Alter Orient und Altes Testament) 315”, Historiae 3: 126-127

[8]       2006, Review of “W. H. van Soldt, The Topography of the City-State of Ugarit, AOAT (Alter Orient und Altes Testament) 324”, Historiae 3: 142-143

[9]       2006, Review of “K. Abraham, Business and Politics under the Persian Empire”, Journal of the American Oriental Society 126/1: 123-125

[10]     2010, Review of “B. Faist, Alltagstexte aus neuassyrischen Archiven und Bibliotheken der Stadt Assur”, Historiae 7: 107-108

[11]     2010, Review of “K. Kleber, Tempel und Palast. Die Beziehungen zwischen dem König und dem Eanna-Tempel im spätbabylonischen Uruk”, Historiae 7: 107-108

[12]     2015, Review of “J. Haubold et al. (eds), The World of Berossos. Proceedings of the 4th International Colloquium on "The Ancient Near East between Classical and Ancient Oriental Traditions", Hatfield College, Durham 7th-9th July 2010.” (Classica et Orientalia, 5). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2013, Bibliotheca Orientalis 72/3-4: 469-473

[13]     2018, Review of “A. García-Ventura et al. (eds), The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, 2018” Antiguo Oriente 16: 245-247

[14]     2020, Review of Kuno Gross, Michael Rolke and András Zboray, Operation Salam. László Almásy’s most daring Mission in the Desert War. München, Belleville, 2013; and Saul Kelly, El Oasis Perdido. Almásy, Zerzura y la guerra del desierto. Madrid, Ediciones Desperta Ferro, 2018. Antiguo Oriente 17: 257-272

 

9. Articles in other international journals (single-authored); short papers

[1]       1999, “Shamash, roi du monde”, Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires (NABU), 1999/5.

[2]       1999, “Zum Verwaltungspersonal des Ebabbar zur Zeit Kandalanus”, Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires (NABU), 1999/39.

[3]       2009, “A Note to the Inscription of Brisa (WBC)”, Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires (NABU), 2009/12.

[4]       2012, “Addenda to GMTR 4 (Appendix 12)”, Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires (NABU), 2012/34.

[5]       2015, “Surface Survey of the Site of as-Sila/Sela (Tafila, Jordan): Water Management in the Edomite Plateau During the First Millennium BC”, Newsletter Water and Wastewater in Ancient Civilizations (WWAC), December 2015: 17-20.

[6]       2016, “Fuentes documentales para el estudio de la época neo-babilónica”, Desperta Ferro Arqueología e Historia, Diciembre 2016, nº 10: Babilonia y los Jardines Colgantes: 12-15

[7]       2019, “Dangling Assyriology: How I studied the Neo-Babylonian inscription of Nabonidus in Sela at 300 feet above the ground and lived to tell it!”, Biblical Archaeology Review 45/6 November-December 2019 (cover issue): 24-32.

[8]       2024 “Religious Networks in Late Babylonian Period (RelNet)”, Historical Network Research 2024, Lausanne, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12606596

[9]       2025 [forthcoming], “Königliche Bildnisse für die Ewigkeit: Unvergänglichen Darstellungen von Nebukadnezar im Laufe der Jahrhunderte”, Alter Orient Aktuell 22.

 

10. On-line publications (single-authored unless indicated; last consulted in September 2021)

[1]       2014, “Nabuchodonosor au Liban: les inscriptions de Brisa dans leur contexte historique”, ArcheOrient-Le Blog. http://archeorient.hypotheses.org/2929

[2]       2015, R. Da Riva and A. Peck (Factum Arte: “High-resolution Photogrammetry, Lebanon: Nahr El Kalb Project” http://www.factumfoundation.org/pag/232/

[3]       2016-, The Inscriptions of the Neo-Babylonian Dynasty (http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ribo/babylon7/)

[4]       2019, “New Discoveries at Sela, the Mountain Stronghold of Edom”, The Ancient Near East Today http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2019/03/New-Discoveries-at-Sela

[5]       2019, “What sort of rituals really went on inside Late Babylonian temples?”, The Ancient Near East Today http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2019/07/What-Rituals-Inside-Late-Babylonian-Temples

[6]       2022 [16/09/2022], “Sela: un asentamiento de la Edad del Hierro en Edom”

https://www.despertaferro-ediciones.com/2022/sela-un-asentamiento-de-la-edad-del-hierro-en-edom/

 

11. Encyclopaedia articles (single-authored)

[1]       2016, “Viehhütungsverträge. Neubabylonisch”, Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie. Band 14 7/8 Lieferung: 571-573.

[2]       2025, forthcoming, “Nabonid”, Supplement, Der Neue Pauly, Rezeption – Alter Orient, Robert Rollinger, Kai Ruffing & Kerstin Droß-Krüpe (eds.), commissioned by J.B. Metzler (Berlin: Springer-Verlag GmbH).

[3]       2025, forthcoming, “Nebuchadnezzar”, Supplement, Der Neue Pauly, Rezeption – Alter Orient, Robert Rollinger, Kai Ruffing & Kerstin Droß-Krüpe (eds.), commissioned by J.B. Metzler (Berlin: Springer-Verlag GmbH).

 

12. Podcasts

[1]       2021, (L. Colomer, R. Da Riva and A. Noriega), “Podcast Historia, National Geographic, Sela”. “Desenterrando el pasado”,  podcast de Historia National Geographic and Fundación Palarq.