Dr. J.G. (Jan Gerrit) Dercksen
Position:
- Lecturer
- Assyriology
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2912 |
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| E-Mail: | j.g.dercksen@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SMES Assyriologie |
| Office Address: |
Witte Singel-complex Witte Singel 25/M. de Vrieshof 4 2311 BZ Leiden Room number 2.05d |
Fields of interest
The history of Mesopotamia and Anatolia, especially during the early centuries of the second millennium BC, the Old Assyrian and Old Babylonian periods. Within this broad field, my particular interest is the economy of Assyria and Babylonia. The focus of my research is on the Old Assyrian period (key-word: Kültepe) and together with other scholars sharing a passion for Kültepe I form the Old Assyrian Text Project Group. I am currently engaged in preparing the publication of an archive excavated in Kültepe (Kt c/k Ali-ahum).
Since 2010, I am directing the research programme ‘Immigrant-Related Change in the Ancient Near East’, funded by The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). This programme investigates the effects of migration in Mesopotamia and Anatolia during the Old Assyrian/Hittite period (post-doc Dr Willemijn Waal), the Old Babylonian period (PhD student Drs Rients de Boer), and the Neo-Assyrian period (post-doc Dr Jeanette Fincke).
CV
Education
1996: PhD in Assyriology, Leiden University
1987: Doctoral degree in Semitic Languages and Cultures (Assyriology), Leiden University
Employment
2002-present: Lecturer in Assyriology at Leiden University.
2000-2001: Post-doc researcher at University of Copenhagen (CNI).
1996-2000: post-doc researcher Leiden University.
Key publications
- Dercksen, J.G. (2004). Some elements of Old Anatolian society in Kanis. In Dercksen, J.G. (Ed.), Assyria and beyond : studies presented to Mogens Trolle Larsen. (pp. 137-177). Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Osten.
- Dercksen, J.G. (2005). Again on Old Assyrian tuzinnum. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2, pp. 39-39.
- Dercksen, J.G. (2005). Metals according to documents from Kültepe-Kanish dating to the Old Assyrian Colony Period. In Yalcun, Ü. (Ed.), Anatolian Metal III. Der Anschnitt, Beiheft 18. (pp. 17-34). Bochum: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum.
- Dercksen, J.G. (2005). Die Stadt Assur als Wirtschaftsmacht. In Meyer, J.-W. & Sommerfeld, W. (Ed.), 2000 v. Chr. Politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Entwicklung im Zeichen einer Jahrtausendwende. (pp. 155-169). Saarbrücken: Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag.
- Dercksen, J.G. (2006). Adad is king. The Sargon text from Kültepe. Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 39, 107-129.
Teaching
Courses in the Akkadian language and its main dialects (Old, Middle and Neo-Assyrian and Old and Neo-Babylonian), history and economy of Mesopotamia.
- Introduction to Akkadian
- Standard Babylonian literary and historical texts
- Old Assyrian
- Middle Assyrian
- Neo-Assyrian
- Old Babylonian letters and historical and juridical texts
- History of Mesopotamia
PhD supervision
Rients de Boer, The Effects of the Amorite Migration to Mesopotamia (started 2010) (with Wilfred van Soldt)
Grants and awards
Grant from NWO Vrije Competitie Geesteswetenschappen for the four-year (2010-2014) programme “The Impact of Migration: Migrant-Related Change in the Ancient Near East” (€ 600,000).
Administration and service to the profession
Secretary, Examining board of the research master-programme Classics and Ancient Near Eastern Civilisations.
Member, Examining board of the BA programme OCMW.
Editor Ancient Near East of the
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Co-editor of the
Jaarbericht Ex Oriente Lux
Co-editor of the series PIHANS published by the Nederland Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Leiden
2011
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Dercksen, J.G. (2011)
From ore to artefact: metals in Kanesh. In Kulakoglu, F. (Ed.) Anatolia's Prologue, Kültepe Kanesh Karum, Assyrians in Istanbul (pp. 110-115). Kayseri: Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Dercksen, J.G. (2011)
The barley of life. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2011, p. 17.
(Article) -
Dercksen, J.G. (2011)
The exchange of sacrificial gifts among Old Assyrian merchants. In: Düring, B.S. (Ed.), Correlates of Complexity (PIHANS), 116. , pp. 59-67. Leiden: NINO.
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Dercksen, J.G. (2011)
The seal of Bel: sealing practices and Babylonian religious motifs in the Seleucid period. In Barjamovic, G., Dahl, J.L., Koch, U.S., Sommerfeld, W., Goodnick Westenholz, J. (Eds.) Akkade is King Vol. 118 (pp. 67-78). Leiden: NINO.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Dercksen, J.G. (2011)
Weeks, months and years in Old Assyrian chronology. Bibliotheca Orientalis, 68 (3/4), pp. 233-243.
(Article)
2010
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Dercksen, J.G. (2010)
Anitta and the Man of Purushanda. In: Dönmez, S. (Ed.), DUB.SAR E.DUB.BA.A Studies Presented in Honour of Veysel Donbaz, pp. 71-75. Istanbul: Ege.
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Dercksen, J.G. (2010)
Mineral resources and demand in the ancient Near East. In Forlanini, M. (Ed.) La natura nel Vicino Oriente antico Vol. 11 (pp. 43-75). Milano: Centro Studi del Vicino Oriente.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Dercksen, J.G. (2010)
T.R. – Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux. Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 42
(Contribution for newspaper or weekly magazine)
2009
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Dercksen, J.G. (2009)
Sattel. Reallexikon der Assyriologie, 12 (1/2), pp. 90-93.
(Article) -
Dercksen, J.G. (2009)
T.R. - Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux. Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 41
(Contribution for newspaper or weekly magazine) -
Dercksen, J.G. (2009)
T.R. - Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 52
(Contribution for newspaper or weekly magazine)
2008
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Dercksen, J.G. (2008)
Anatolia and the Jazira during the Old Assyrian period. (PIHANS, 111). Leiden: Nederlands Instituut van het Nabije Oosten.
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Dercksen, J.G. (2008)
Observations on land use and agriculture in Kanes. In Michel, C. (Ed.) Old Assyrian Studies in Memory of Paul Garelli (pp. 139-157). Leiden: NINO.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Dercksen, J.G. (2008)
Subsistence, surplus and the market for grain and meat at ancient Kanesh. Altorientalische Forschungen, 35 (1), pp. 86-102.
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Dercksen, J.G. (2008)
The Assyrian colony at Kanesh. In Wilhelm, G. (Ed.) Hattuša-Bogazköy. Das Hethiterreich im Spannungsfeld des Alten Orients (pp. 109-124). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Dercksen, J.G. (2008)
The colophon of Kültepe Eponym List G. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2008 (3), pp. 71-72.
(Article)
2007
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Dercksen, J.G. (2007)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: The Ancient Near East. Historical Sources in Translation]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis, 64, pp. 320-325.
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Dercksen, J.G. (2007)
Die altassyrischen Handelsabgaben in Nordmesopotamien und Anatolien im 19.-18. Jh. v. Chr. in Verträgen und Praxis. In Klinkott, H., Kubisch, S., Müller-Wollermann, R. (Eds.) Geschenke und Steuern, Zölle und Tribute. Antike Abgabenformen in Anspruch und Wirklichkeit (pp. 188-211). Leiden: Koninklijke Brill.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Dercksen, J.G. (2007)
On Anatolian loanwords in Akkadian texts from Kültepe. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 97, pp. 26-46.
(Article) -
Dercksen, J.G. (2007)
Ving Sargon een gazelle of een caféhoudster? Een vermeende parodie over koning Sargon van Akkad uit Kültepe. Phoenix : bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 53, pp. 23-30.
(Article)
2006
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Dercksen, J.G. (2006)
Adad is king. The Sargon text from Kültepe. Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 39, pp. 107-129.
(Article) -
Demareé, R.J. & Heerma van Voss, M.S.H.G. & Dercksen, J.G. & Veenhof, K.R. & Dijkstra, M.J. (2006)
T.R. - Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux. Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 39
(Contribution for newspaper or weekly magazine)
2005
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Dercksen, J.G. (2005)
Again on Old Assyrian tuzinnum. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2, p. 39.
(Article) -
Dercksen, J.G. (2005)
Die Stadt Assur als Wirtschaftsmacht. In Meyer, J.-W. & Sommerfeld, W. (Eds.) 2000 v. Chr. Politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Entwicklung im Zeichen einer Jahrtausendwende (pp. 155-169). Saarbrücken: Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Dercksen, J.G. (2005)
Metals according to documents from Kültepe-Kanish dating to the Old Assyrian Colony Period. In Yalcun, Ü. (Ed.) Anatolian Metal III. Der Anschnitt, Beiheft 18 (pp. 17-34). Bochum: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2004
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Dercksen, J.G. (2004)
Old Assyrian Institutions. (PIHANS, 98). Leiden: NINO.
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Dercksen, J.G. (2004)
Old Assyrian utharum "characteristic, mark" and lu uthurum "it surely was a sign". Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 1, pp. 8-9.
(Article) -
Dercksen, J.G. (2004)
Some elements of Old Anatolian society in Kanis. In Dercksen, J.G. (Ed.) Assyria and beyond : studies presented to Mogens Trolle Larsen (pp. 137-177). Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Osten.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Dercksen, J.G. (Ed.) (2004)
Syria and beyond: studies presented to Mogens Trolle Larsen. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.
(Book editorial) -
Demareé, R.J. & Heerma van Voss, M.S.H.G. & Dercksen, J.G. & Veenhof, K.R. & Dijkstra, M.J. (2004)
T.R. - Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux. Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 38
(Contribution for newspaper or weekly magazine)
2003
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Dercksen, J.G. (2003)
A new OA text from Kültepe about mules. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2, p. 52.
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Dercksen, J.G. (2003)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Der Fernhandel des assyrischen Reiches zwischen dem 14. und 11. Jh. v. Chr.]. In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 46, pp. 540-543.
(Book review) -
Dercksen, J.G. (2003)
Kultureller und wirtschaftlicher Austausch zwischen Assyrern und Anatoliern (Anfang des zweiten Jahrtausends v. Chr.). In Blum, H., Faist, B., Pfälzner, P., Wittke, A.-M. (Eds.) Brückenland Anatolien? Ursachen, Extensität und Modi des Kulturaustausches zwischen Anatolien und seinen Nachbarn (pp. 35-44). Tübingen: Attempto Verlag.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2002
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Dercksen, J.G. (2002)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Kappadokische Keilschrifttafeln aus den Sammlungen der Karlsuniversität Prag]. In: Archiv für Orientforschung, 48/49, pp. 183-196.
(Book review) -
Dercksen, J.G. (2002)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Correspondance des marchands de Kanis au début du IIe millénaire avant J.-C.]. In: Archiv für Orientforschung, 48/49, pp. 196-198.
(Book review)
2001
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Soldt, W.H., van & Dercksen, J.G. & Krispijn, T.J.H. & Kouwenberg, N.J.C. (Eds.) (2001)
Veenhof Anniversary Volume, Studies presented to Klaas R. Veenhof on the Occasion of his Sixty-fifth birthday. Leuven: Peeters.
(Book editorial)
2000
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Dercksen, J.G. (2000)
Institutional and private in the Old Assyrian period. In Bongenaar, A.C.V.M. (Ed.) Interdependency of Institutions and Private Entrepreneurs (MOS Studies, 2) Vol. PIHANS (pp. 135-152). Instanbul: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
1999
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Dercksen, J.G. (1999)
Old Assyrian finance. In: Dercksen, J.G. (Ed.), Trade and finance in ancient Mesopotamia, pp. 99-112. Leiden: NN.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
1998
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Dercksen, J.G. (1998)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Tablettes paléo-assyriennes de Kültepe, volume 1 (Kt 90/k)]. In: Archiv für Orientforschung, 44/45, pp. 333-339.
(Book review) -
Dercksen, J.G. (1998)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Ankara Kültepe Tabletleri 1-2; Ankaraner Kültepe-Texte 3]. In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 41, pp. 220-224.
(Book review)
1997
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Dercksen, J.G. (1997)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Die altassyrischen Privaturkunden]. In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 92, pp. 502-508.
(Book review) -
Dercksen, J.G. (1997)
Handel in het oude Mesopotamië. ICA Nieuwsbrief, november, pp. 23-29.
(Article) -
Dercksen, J.G. (1997)
Rijk worden in Turkije: Assyrische kooplieden in Kanisj. Phoenix : bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 43 (3), pp. 154-167.
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Dercksen, J.G. (1997)
The silver of the gods. On old Assyrian irribu. Archivum Anatolicum, 3, pp. 75-100.
(Article) -
Dercksen, J.G. (Ed.) (1997)
Trade and finance in ancient Mesopotamia. Leiden: NN.
(Book editorial)
1996
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Dercksen, J.G. (1996)
The Old Assyrian Coppertrade in Anatolia, Istanbul. UL, x+279pp. K.R. Veenhof.
(Dissertation)
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