Research Projects

The focal points of our projects at the Institute for Oriental Studies are very diverse and include cultural, historical, and linguistic topics relating to the Near and Middle East and North Africa. Below can be found an overview of projects at the Institute for Oriental Studies.

Current Projects

Astronomical Diaries Digital

Pirngruber, R. & Jursa, M.

1/04/18 → 31/03/21

Project: Research funding

Bestiarium Mesopotamicum: Animal Omens in Ancient Mesopotamia

De Zorzi, N.

1/10/18 → 30/09/21

Project: Research funding

GAIA: Galen in Arabic - more than a translation

Wakelnig, E.

1/01/19 → 31/12/22

Project: Research funding

Late Babylonian Priestly Literature: Ideology in Context

Jursa, M.

1/07/19 → 30/06/21

Project: Research funding

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

De Zorzi, N.

1/05/19 → 30/04/24

Project: Research funding

The language of the Arab minority in Southern Iran

El Zarka, D. & Prochazka, S.

1/08/20 → 31/07/24

Project: Research funding

MCB: The Material Culture of Babylonia in the First Millennium BC

Jursa, M.

1/03/19 → 28/02/22

Project: Research funding

The Oriental Outpost of the Republic of Letters

Wallnig, T. J. J., Römer, C., Celik, H., Petrolini, C. & Molino, P.

1/01/18 → 30/06/22

Project: Research funding

Tunisia’s Linguistic terra incognita

Ritt-Benmimoun, V.

1/04/19 → 31/03/23

Project: Research funding

Future Projects

The Shawi-type Arabic dialects spoken in South-eastern Anatolia and the Middle Euphrates region

Prochazka, S. & Mörth , K.

Project: Research funding