Publications

Roßberger, Elisa. “Decision-Making and In-Betweens. Layers and Agents of Multimodal Communication in Old Babylonian Sealing Practices and Imagery.” In Multimodal Artefact Analysis in Ancient Studies. Investigating the Interplay between Material, Pictorial, Linguistic, and Spatial Forms of Communication in Ancient Egypt and Western Asia, Pathways to Multimodality, eds. Elisa Roßberger and Patrizia Heindl. Berlin; Boston: de Gruyter.

Roßberger, Elisa, and Patrizia Heindl, eds. Multimodal Artefact Analysis in Ancient Studies. Investigating the Interplay between Material, Pictorial, Linguistic, and Spatial Forms of Communication in Ancient Egypt and Western Asia. Pathways to Multimodality 2. Berlin; Boston: de Gruyter.

Dietz, Albert. 2026. “Kleine Steine, grosse Wirkung. Wie Rollsiegel den Alltag im Alten Orient formten.” Antike Welt (3/2026): 50–56. [PDF].

Dietz, Albert, and Anna Kurmangaliev. 2026. “Making Sense of Compositions. A Computational Approach to Old Babylonian Presentation Scenes.” In Kultur – Kontakt – Kultur. Beiträge Anlässlich Der 66. Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Frankfurt/Main Und Mainz, 25.–29. Juli 2022, dubsar, eds. Doris Prechel, Alexander Pruß, Thomas Richter, and Dirk Wicke. Münster: Zaphon, 211–26.

Hageneuer, Sebastian. 2026. “KIŠIB.” In BBAW-Berlicht 2025, ed. Christoph Markschies. Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 78–79.

Opetz, Monique. 2026. “Lieblingsstück – Albert Dietz Über Wissensspeicher Im Miniaturformat.” Akademie Aktuell (2/2026): 64. https://badw.de/presse/zeitschrift-akademie-aktuell/artikel/akademie-aktuell-jahrgang-2026-ausgabe-89.

Roßberger, Elisa. 2026. “Digitaliseringsproject voor rolzegels van start.” Archaeologie Magazine 1: 4–5.

Hageneuer, Sebastian. 2026. “On Connection: Ethical and Digital Approaches to Ancient West Asian Seals.” Presentation. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Vienna, Austria, April 1.

Dietz, Albert. 2026. “Gegensiegeln Im Alten Orient. Neue Einblicke Zur Siegelpraxis.” Presentation. Institut für Altertumswissenschaften/Vorderasiatische Archäologie at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany, February 4.

Otto, Adelheid, and Manfred Lerchl. 2026. “Verwaltung, Kunsthandwerk Und Götterglaube in Der Frühdynastisch II-Zeit: Neue Erkenntnisse Aus Fara/Shuruppak.” Presentation. Kolloquium zum Alten Orient, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, February 3.

Sallaberger, Walter, Anna Pintér, Adelheid Otto, and Albert Dietz. 2026. “Ziele langfristiger altorientalistischer Forschungen an der LMU: Die Akademieprojekte CAIC und KISHIB.” Presentation. Kolloquium zum Alten Orient, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, January 20.

Dietz, Albert. 2026. “Kleine Steine, Große Wirkung. Wie Roll- Und Stempelsiegel Den Alltag Im Alten Orient Formten.” Presentation. Unitag Alumni Network Meeting at LMU Munich, Germany, January 9.

Aspiotis, Stylianos, Albert Dietz, Zsombor Földi, Frank Hildebrandt, Jochen Schlüter, and Boriana Mihailova. 2025. “Material Profiling of Mesopotamian Cylinder Seals by Raman Spectroscopy.” Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 56(3): 228–42. http://doi.org/10.1002/jrs.6765.

Hageneuer, Sebastian. 2025. “KIŠIB — Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings.” In Jahresmagazin 2026 der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, ed. Markschies Christoph. Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 76–79. https://www.bbaw.de/files-bbaw/publikationen/jahresmagazin/Jahresmagazin_2026/BBAW_Jahresmagazin_2026_Web.pdf.

Otto, Adelheid. 2025. “To Change, or Not to Change… Transitional Glyptic Styles in ED II Fara /Šuruppak and Their Relation to Officialdom.” In Tracing Transitions & Connecting Communities in the Archaeology of Southwest Asia. Papers in Honour of Roger Matthews, eds. Claudia Glatz, Mónica Palmero Fernández, Amy Richardson, and Michael Seymour. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 103–17. http://doi.org/10.59641/9j812mv.

Hageneuer, Sebastian. 2025. “KIŠIB — Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings.” Presentation. Colloquium in Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Cologne, Germany, December 3.

Roßberger, Elisa, Adelheid Otto, Albert Dietz, and Sebastian Hageneuer. 2025. “Bilder, Die Verbinden.” Presentation. Kick-off event of the project at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany, November 17.

Hageneuer, Sebastian. 2025. “KIŠIB — Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings.” Presentation. DiHMa.Lab Workshop organised by the consortia MaRDI and NFDI4Objects at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, October 15.

Roßberger, Elisa, Albert Dietz, and Sebastian Hageneuer. 2025. “KIŠIB — Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings.” Presentation. Glyptic Day Workshop at the Louvre, Paris, France, September 18.

Roßberger, Elisa, and Sebastian Hageneuer. 2025. “KIŠIB — Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings.” Presentation. Bytes & Bygones Conference at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, September 17.

Roßberger, Elisa. 2025. “Images in/as Inscriptions. Figurative Elements Replacing Cuneiform on Middle Bronze Age Cylinder Seals.” Presentation. 14th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 and the Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, France, June 6.

Dietz, Albert. 2025. “Counter-Sealing in Ancient West Asia. Wishful Thinking or Essential Administrative Practice?” Presentation. 14th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 and the Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, France, June 5.

Otto, Adelheid. 2025. “Why Should I Get Myself a Modern Seal?” Reconsidering the Early Dynastic I-II Seal Styles Based on New Results from the ‘Seal Pit’ in Fara / Šuruppak.” Presentation. 14th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 and the Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, France, June 3.

Roßberger, Elisa. 2025. “Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings.” Presentation. Plenary meeting at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Centre of Research on the Ancient World, Berlin, Germany, February 21.

Otto, Adelheid. 2025. “FD I, II Oder III? Frische Siegelabrollungen Aus Fāra / Šuruppak Und Ihre Bedeutung Für Ein Neues Verständnis Frühdynastischer Siegelkunst Und -Praxis.” Presentation. Institut für archäologische Wissenschaften, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany, January 25.

Otto, Adelheid. 2024. “Law and Justice in Kanes and Its Depiction on Cylinder Seals: A New Interpretation of the Motifs ‘Ball-Staff’ and ‘Pot.’” In Kültepe at the Crossroads between Disciplines. Society, Settlement and Environment from the Fourth to the First Millennium BC, Subartu, eds. F. Kulakoglu and C. Michel. Turnhout, 33–53.

Otto, Adelheid. 2024. “The Seal Images on the Inscribed Bullae from the Main Tell of Umma.” In Bullae from the Main Tell, UmCT, eds. N.A. Al-Mutawalli, K.S. Ismael, and Walter Sallaberger. Wiesbaden, 207–31.

Roßberger, Elisa. 2024. Annotated Corpus of ancient Near Eastern imagery: Cylinder seals (ACANEI-CS): Kurzbericht/Sachbericht zum BMBF eHeritage geförderten Vorhaben. Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek. http://doi.org/10.34657/23850.

Roßberger, Elisa. 2024. “Towards an Annotated Corpus of Ancient West Asian Imagery: Chances and Challenges.” Presentation. 2nd NFDI4Objects Community Meeting, Mainz, Germany, November 27.

Otto, Adelheid. 2024. “Much More than Writing: The Seals of Scribes in Mesopotamian Administrative Systems.” Presentation. LMU-ChAN Scientific Forum, Shanghai, China, September 27.

Otto, Adelheid. 2024. “Sealings as Witnesses to Glocal Administrative Processes.” Presentation. LMU-ChAN Scientific Forum, Shanghai, China, April 26.

Otto, Adelheid, and Grégory Chambon. 2024. “Measuring Grain in Bronze Age Mesopotamia: The Little Man, the Strickle and the Measuring Vessel.” Presentation. Workshop on Ancient Measuring Systems, Bordeaux, France, April 25.

Dietz, Albert. 2023. Der Wettergott im Bild: Diachrone Analyse eines altorientalischen Göttertypus im 3. und 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr. Münchener Abhandlungen zum Alten Orient 8.1+2. Gladbeck: PeWe-Verlag. http://doi.org/10.5282/edoc.32247.

Roßberger, Elisa. 2023. “Review of Middle Assyrian Seal Motifs from Tell Fekheriye (Syria) by Dominik Bonatz and Felix Wolters.” Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research 389: 246–48. http://doi.org/10.1086/724837.

Roßberger, Elisa, and Anna Kurmangaliev. 2023. “Integrating Data, Creating Knowledge from Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings: The Dig ANES/ACAWAI-CS Projects.” In The Ancient World Goes Digital: Case Studies on Archaeology, Texts, Online Publishing, Digital Archiving, and Preservation, Digital Biblical Studies, eds. Vanessa Bigot Juloux, Alessandro Di Ludovico, and Matskevich. Leiden: Brill, 112–36.

Otto, Adelheid. 2022. “The Middle Bronze Age Seal Impressions.” In Tell Ahmar on the Syrian Euphrates: From Chalcolithic Village to Assyrian Provincial Capital, ed. Guy Bunnens. Oxford; Philadelphia, 65–68.

Roßberger, Elisa. 2022. “The ‘Annotated Corpus of West Asian Imagery: Cylinder Seals’ (ACAWAI-CS) Project in the Context of Art Historical Research at LMU’s Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology.” In 50 Jahre Vorderasiatische Archäologie in München, Münchener Abhandlungen zum Alten Orient, eds. Adelheid Otto and Kai Kainuth. Gladbeck: PeWe, 377–80.

Otto, Adelheid. 2021. “Die Nackte Göttin, geflügelt. Eine Darstellung der Göttin Ereškigal auf einer altbabylonischen Siegelabrollung aus Ur.” In Von Syrien bis Georgien – durch die Steppen Vorderasiens. Festschrift für Felix Blocher anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstages, Marru, eds. M. Herles, C. Beuger, J. Becker, and S. Arnhold. Münster, 465–84.

Roßberger, Elisa. 2021. “Bilder neu verknoten. Das ACAWAI-CS Projekt erschließt vorderasiatische Rollsiegel digital.” Alter Orient aktuell 18: 10–15.

Roßberger, Elisa. 2021. “A Middle Bronze II Cylinder Seal of North Syrian Style from Tel Shimron (Jezreel Valley).” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 385: 119–30. http://doi.org/10.1086/712486.

Otto, Adelheid. 2019. “Official Seal Motifs at Larsa and Ur in the 19th Century BC.” In De l’argile Au Númerique: Mélanges Assyriologiques En l’honneur de Dominique Charpin, PIPOAC, eds. Gregory Chambon, M. Guichard, A.-I. Langlois, T. Langlois, and Nele Ziegler. , 763–76.

Otto, Adelheid. 2019. “The Images of the Seal Impressions.” In Bullae from the Shara Temple, Cuneiform Texts from the Iraqi Excavations at Umma (Jokha), eds. N. Ahmed Al-Mutawalli, K. Salim Ismail, and Walter Sallaberger. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 139–46.

Otto, Adelheid. 2019. “Glyptic.” In A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art, ed. Ann C. Gunter. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 411–31. http://doi.org/10.1002/9781118336779.ch17.