Dr. Matthias Adelhofer, BA MA
Matthias Adelhofer
T: +43-1-4277-43452

Discipline: Ancient Near Eastern Philology and Near Eastern Archaeology

Winter term 2024
Summer term 2024
Winter term 2023
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Matthias Adelhofer

Non-academic staff, Academic third-party funded project staff, External lecturer

  • Department of Near Eastern Studies
  • Department of Near Eastern Studies
  • Department of Near Eastern Studies
Postal address:
Austria

Employment

Academic third-party funded project staff

Department of Near Eastern Studies

University of Vienna

Austria

1 May 2016 → present

Independent contractor/trainee

Department of Near Eastern Studies

University of Vienna

Austria

27 Jul 20147 Nov 2018

Predoc

Department of Near Eastern Studies

University of Vienna

Austria

1 Jan 201931 Dec 2023

External lecturer

Department of Near Eastern Studies

University of Vienna

Austria

1 Mar 2021 → present

Non-academic staff

Department of Near Eastern Studies

University of Vienna

Austria

15 May 2023 → present

Publications

Introduction to the Near East Ancient Origins

Adelhofer, M., Jun 2024, The Ancient Near East: Ancient Origins. London: Flame Tree Publishing, p. 18-45 27 p. ( Flame Tree Collector's Editions ).

Invoking Relations in Old Assyrian and Old Babylonian Letters: The Rhetoric of Aḫī Atta, Abī Atta etc.

Adelhofer, M., 2024, Kültepe at the Crossroads between Disciplines: Society, Settlement and Environment from the Fourth to the First Millennium BC. Kulakoğlu, F. & Michel, C. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols, (Subartu, Vol. 51).

Review of Kulakoğlu, Fikri & Michel, Cécile & Öztürk, Güzel (eds.): Integrative Approaches to the Archaeology and History of Kültepe-Kaneš. Kültepe, 4–7 August 2017 (KIM 3, SUBARTU 45)

Adelhofer, M., 2022, In: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes. 112

On the Old Assyrian Letter Heading: Playing with Social Hierarchy for Rhetorical Effect

Adelhofer, M., 2020, In: CHATREŠŠAR. 2, p. 5-18 14 p.

Review of Karlsson, M. (ed.): The Rod and Measuring Rope. Festschrift for Olof Pedersén

Adelhofer, M., 2020, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 110, p. 415-417.

Tamītu ‘oath’ and uˀiltu ša tamīti ‘oath summons’ in Uruk

Adelhofer, M., 2016, In: Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires: NABU. 3, p. 130-131 2 p., 78.

Old Assyrian "word dividers" punctuating meaning

Matthias Adelhofer (Speaker)

12 Jul 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Rhetoric between superior and inferior among the Old Assyrian traders

Matthias Adelhofer (Speaker)

17 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Old Assyrian Epistolography. A Synthesis for the Contextualisation of Rhetoric

Matthias Adelhofer (Speaker)

31 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Time and Urgency in Old Assyrian Letters

Matthias Adelhofer (Speaker)

5 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


On the Old Assyrian Letter Heading: Playing with Social Hierarchy for Rhetorical Effect

Matthias Adelhofer (Speaker)

18 Sep 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science



„The Archaeology of North Arabia, Oases and Landscapes“

Matthias Adelhofer (Speaker) & Marta Luciani (Contributor)

11 Nov 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Department of Near Eastern Studies

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Spitalgasse 2
1090 Wien
Room: 2C-Z2-48

T: +43-1-4277-43452

matthias.adelhofer@univie.ac.at