Marten Stol (1940) studied Classical and Semitic languages at Leiden University, and from 1983-2005 he was Professor of Assyriology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is a specialist of the social and economic history of the Old Babylonian period (1900-1500 B.C.), and of Babylonian medicine. He published editions of Old Babylonian letters and wrote books on epilepsy and giving birth in Mesopotamia. A book on women in Babylonia in English is forthcoming.
Current projects: English translation of "Vrouwen van Babylon"; continued work for Reallexikon der Assyriologie; continued editorial work for Bibliotheca Orientalis; articles in preparation on Babylonian social history and medicine.
Publications
Books
- Studies in Old Babylonian History, Leiden 1976
- On trees, mountains and millstones in the Ancient Near East, Leiden 1979
- Altbabylonische Briefe, vols. IX (Leiden 1981) and XI, Leiden 1986
- Zwangerschap en geboorte bij de Babyloniers en in de Bijbel, Leiden 1983
- Epilepsy in Babylonia, Groningen 1993
- Birth in Babylonia and the Bible. Its Mediterranean setting, Groningen 2000
- with D. Charpin and D.O. Edzard: Mesopotamien. Die altbabylonische Zeit, Fribourg-Göttingen 2004
- Vrouwen van Babylon, Utrecht 2012
- Old Babylonian Texts from Dilbat, Sippar, and Other Places, Leiden 2023 (edition of manuscript left by the late W.F. Leemans)
Other
- Numerous articles in scholarly journals and books;
- Many topics in Reallexikon der Assyriologie (since 1980);
- Editor of Bibliotheca Orientalis 1976–2025.
