As Visiting Fellow, Lidewij van de Peut is working on two projects:
Hittite Objects in the Böhl Collection. Research into the origins and collection history of the Hittite objects in the Böhl, and publication of Hittite fragments LB 1155, LB 2701-1, LB 2701-2, LB 5189, LB 5190, and LB 5191.
Reading from the Clay? On Form and Function of Recitative Literature in Early Hittite Anatolia (ca. 1650-1320 BCE). The aim of this project is to establish criteria to identify (1) a performative text that was to be recited, and (2) tablets that were intended to be used during a performance. The results will be fundemental for our understanding of scribal practice, performance, and literacy within the early Hittite state.
Her other research interests center on the use and function of written texts from ancient Anatolia and Mesopotamia in the second and first millennium BCE. She is particularly interested in the performance and rhetoric of religious and political literature, and in the transfer of texts and knowledge throughout the ancient Near East.
Education
2018: PhD in Altorientalistik, at the Freie Universität Berlin, within the graduate programme ‘Ancient Languages and Texts’ of the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies. Doctoral dissertation: “Persuading the Divine: On the Composition of Hittite Prayers”; supervisors: Prof.dr. J. Klinger and Prof.dr. M.J. Geller.
2012: MA in Classics and Ancient Near Eastern Civilisations, specialization: Assyriology (ResMA), at Leiden University.
2009: BA in Talen en Culturen van Mesopotamië en Anatolië, at Leiden University.
Academic Positions
2019-2020: NINO postdoctoral fellow for the Böhl Collection Cataloguing Project, working on the Neo- and Late-Babylonian archival documents in the collection.
2019: Lecturer at Leiden University.
2018-2019: Research assistant in Assyriology, at Leiden University, within the ERC CoG project Persia and Babylonia: Creating a New Context for Understanding the Emergence of the First World Empire of Prof. C. Waerzeggers.
