Assoz. Prof. Dott. ric. Nicla De Zorzi, BA MA

T: +43-1-4277-43411

nicla.de.zorzi@univie.ac.at

http://homepage.univie.ac.at/nicla.de.zorzi/

Winter term 2025

141051 PS Sumerian II and methodology - Sumerian Dedicatory Inscriptions

141111 PS Babylonian III and methodology - Old Babylonian Letters

141226 SE Mesopotamian Literature (Reading of Literary Texts) - The Babylonian creation myth Atrahasis

Summer term 2025

141117 UE Exercises to Introduction to Babylonian II

141192 VO History of Mesopotamian Literature

141226 SE Mesopotamian Literature (Reading of Literary Texts) - Philological Seminar on Akkadian Studies (Literature)

141227 SE Philological Seminar

Winter term 2024

141051 PS Sumerian II and methodology - Sumerian Dedicatory Inscriptions

141096 SE Master Coaching Seminar

141111 PS Babylonian III and methodology - Old Babylonian Letters

141226 SE Mesopotamian Literature (Reading of Literary Texts) - SE Philological Accadian Seminar

420006 SE New Perspectives on working with manuscript-transmitted texts - Basic Methods and Interdisciplinary Approaches

De Zorzi, N. (2024). Ominous Animals: The Construction of Human-Animal Relationship in Babylonian Divination. In M. Streck, & A. Pohl (Eds.), Der altorientalische Mensch in seiner Umwelt: 11. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orientgesellschaft, 16.-19. Juni 2022 in Leipzig (Vol. Colloquien der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 11, pp. 11-70). Harrassowitz Verlag.

De Zorzi, N. (Ed.), Simons, F., Rinderer, M., Menicatti, L., De Zorzi, N., Elyze, Z., Jáka-Sövegjártó, S., & Piccin, M. (2024). The Construction of meaning in Ancient Mesopotamian Literature and Scholarship: Proceedings of the workshop organised at the 68th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Leiden. Selbstverlag des Instituts für Orientalistik. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes Vol. 114

De Zorzi, N. (2024). The Interplay of Form and Meaning in Babylonian Poetry: A New Reading and Interpretation of the Babylonian Theodicy’s Ending. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 114, 159-214. https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.587

De Zorzi, N. (2022). Ancient Mesopotamian Animal Omens: Structure and Patterns of Meaning. Near Eastern Archaeology, 85(4), 270-278. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/722366

De Zorzi, N. (2022). Raving Dogs and Promiscuous Pigs: Rethinking the Representation of Animals in Mesopotamian Animal Omens. In Zoon magikon: Animal et magie dans l’Antiquité et au Moyen Âge (pp. 85-115). Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes. http://books.openedition.org/irht/537

De Zorzi, N. (2022). Die Ähnlichkeitsmagie der Babylonier. Der Standard.

De Zorzi, N. (2022). Parallelism and Analogical Thought in Babylonian Poetry: Case Studies from Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, the Babylonian Theodicy, and the Šamaš Hymn. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 112, 367-394. https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.371

De Zorzi, N. (Ed.), Schmidl, M., Pfitzner, J., Simons, F., Debourse, C., De Zorzi, N., & Baragli, B. (2022). The Construction of meaning in Ancient Mesopotamian Literature and Scholarship. Proceedings of the workshop organised at the 67th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Turin (12-16 July 2021). Selbstverlag des Instituts für Orientalistik. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes Vol. 112

De Zorzi, N. (2021). Written on the lungs: the Neo-Assyrian lung model Rm 620 and Ancient Mesopotamian lung divination. Die Welt des Orients, 51(2), 181-220. https://doi.org/10.13109/wdor.2021.51.2.181

De Zorzi, N. (2021). Ancient Mesopotamian divinatory series in the British Museum: New texts and joins. Journal of Cuneiform Studies, 73, 193-209. https://doi.org/10.1086/714660, https://doi.org/https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1405268

De Zorzi, N. (2021). News on Enūma Anu Enlil 47 and its Nuzi forerunner. Kaskal: rivista di storia, ambienti e culture del Vicino Oriente antico, 17, 211-221. https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1188989

De Zorzi, N. (2020). Explanatory texts related to the extispicy series Bārûtu: BM 131658 joins K 10877 (Koch 2005, 412-428 no. 65 ms. B). Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires: NABU, 253-255.

De Zorzi, N. (2020). If a pig carries a reed and enters a man’s house ... Observations on some structuring devices in Babylonian omen lists. https://doi.org/10.25365/phaidra.230

De Zorzi, N. (2020). Literature as scholarship: some reflections on repetition with variation and the construction of meaning in the Šamaš Hymn 112-117. Kaskal: rivista di storia, ambienti e culture del Vicino Oriente antico, 16, 159-182.

De Zorzi, N. (2019). Rude Remarks not Fit to Smell: Negative Value Judgements Relating to Sensory Perceptions in Ancient Mesopotamia. In A. Schellenberg, & T. Krüger (Eds.), Sounding Profiles in the Ancient Near East (Vol. 25, pp. 217-252). Society of Biblical Literature.

De Zorzi, N. (2019). L’eroe e l’effeminato: osservazioni sul corpo ideale, il corpo normale e il corpo disabile nell’antica Mesopotamia. In S. Crippa (Ed.), Corpi e saperi: riflessioni sulla trasmissione della conoscenza (pp. 25-52). Pendragon. https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1405162

De Zorzi, N. (2019). Review of U. Koch, Mesopotamian Divination Texts: Conversing with the Gods. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung : Zeitschrift für die Wissenschaft vom ganzen Orient und seinen Beziehungen zu den angrenzenden Kulturkreisen, 114(3), 204-207.

De Zorzi, N. (Ed.), De Zorzi, N., Pfitzner, J., Debourse, C., Koch, U., Gabbay, U., Crisostomo, J., & Winitzer, A. (2019). Scholarship as Literature: Internal Mechanisms of Text Generation and Rhetorics in Scholarly Texts and Series from Ancient Mesopotamia and Neighbouring Cultures. Kaskal: rivista di storia, ambienti e culture del Vicino Oriente antico Vol. 16

De Zorzi, N., & Jursa, M. (2017). A new suggestion for the crux in the Akkadian version of the Hittite treaty CTH 41 §52. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires: NABU, 2017/2/45, 79-80.

De Zorzi, N. (2017). Another Teratomantic Tablet from Tigunānum. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 11-18.

Nicla De Zorzi

Professor

Department of Near Eastern Studies

Research interests

Ancient Near Eastern studies, in particular Babylonian literatur, religion and the history of mentalities

Curriculum vitae

Apr 2009 - Feb 2012 University Assistant, Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Vienna

Jan 2014 - Sep 2018 University Assistant, Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Vienna

Okt 2018 - Nov 2020 Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Vienna

Dez 2020 - Associated Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of Vienna

May 2022 - Guest Professor at the University of Florence

Awards

2007–2010 Full PhD scholarship gained through a competitive examination process (36 months), Doctoral School in Humanities, section of Ancient History and Archeology (XXIII), Ca’ Foscari University, Venice

2012–2015 Marie Curie Fellowship (24 months), M4HUMAN “Mobility for experienced researchers in historical humanities including Islamic studies,” MC-COFUND, Gerda Henkel Foundation and European Commission (FP7), Destination: Institute of Assyriology and Hittitology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. Project’s title: “Mesopotamian Lung Omens: the Chapter šumma hašû of the Extispicy Series bārûtu”

2012 Research award granted by Ca’ Foscari University Venice

2017 FWF Stand Alone Grant for the project “Bestiarium Mesopotamicum: Animal Omens in Ancient Mesopotamia” (370,826.75 EUR)

2018 ERC Starting Grant for the project “Repetition, parallelism and creativity: an inquiry into the construction of meaning in Ancient Mesopotamian literature and erudition” (REPAC; SH6) (1,494,198 EUR)

2018 Italian National Scientific Habilitation for the role of Associate Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies (10/N1) granted by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (D.D. 1532/2016; 22.08.2018 to 22.08.2024).

2019 Member of the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)

Repetition, Parallelism and Creativity: An Inquiry into the Construction of Meaning in Ancient Mesopotamian Literature and Erudition

De Zorzi, N. (Keynote speaker)

4 Nov 2025

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science