Deutsch Intern
DFG Centre for Advanced Studies MagEIA

Dr Beatrice Baragli

ORCID: 0000-0002-3549-2012

Research Interests

  • Sumerology
  • Sumerian–Akkadian Bilingualism,
  • Ancient Near Eastern Literature, Religion, Magic and Rituals
  • Representations of the Mesopotamian Sun God

Curriculum Vitae

Education
2015–19 PhD, LMU Munich: Department of Assyriology and Hittitology. Supervisors: Prof. Dr W. Sallaberger, PD Dr A. Löhnert.
2014–15 MA, University of Florence: Languages and Civilisations of the Ancient and Modern East. Supervisors: Prof. Dr A. Catagnoti, Dr M. Bonechi.
2011–13 B.A., University of Florence: Ancient Literature – Oriental Curriculum. Supervisors: Prof. Dr M.V. Tonietti, Prof. Dr A. Catagnoti.
Academic Positions
since November 2023 Research Assistant, KFG MagEIA, University of Würzburg
10/2020–10/2023 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Project title: Late Sumerian: Evolution or Decay?
March 2020–August 2020 Research Assistant, LMU Munich: Department of Assyriology and Hittitology. Project: CAIC (Cuneiform Artefacts in Context).
November 2019–February 2020 Research Fellow, LMU Munich: Department of Assyriology and Hittitology. Project: RIBo (The Royal Inscriptions of Babylonia online).
June 2019–September 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures. Project title: The Development of First Millennium Sumerian. Exchange programme “LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities”.
12/2018 Research Assistant, LMU Munich: Department of History, Ancient History, Project: MOCCI (Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative).
April 2015–March 2018 PhD candidate and Research Assistant, LMU Munich: Graduate School Distant Worlds, Department of Assyriology and Hittitology. Project title: Sun Salutations. The Sumerian Kiutu prayer incantations.
April 2014–March 2015 Predoctoral Fellow (Research Assistant, LMU Munich): Graduate School Distant Worlds, Department of Assyriology and Hittitology.

Publications

Books

  • 2022: Sun Salutations. The Sumerian Kiutu Prayer-Incantations, Ancient Magic and Divination 19 (Leiden/Boston: Brill). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004503724
  • In preparation: The King and his Good Leadership: The Bīt rimki (“bathhouse”) ritual as a tool for coping with royal transgressions in first-millennium Mesopotamia.

Edited books

  • 2021: Beatrice Baragli, Albert Dietz, Zsombor J. Földi, Patrizia Heindl, Polly Lohmann and Sarah P. Schlüter (eds.): Distant Worlds and Beyond: Special Issue Dedicated to the Graduate School Distant Worlds (2012‒2021), Distant Worlds Journal Special Issues 3 (Heidelberg: Propylaeum). https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.886

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

  • 2025: Beatrice Baragli, Saki Kikuchi: “Hermeneutic Strategies of Mesopotamian Scholars”, Journal of the American Oriental Society 145, 155–172 https://doi.org/10.7817/jaos.145.1.2025.ar008
  • 2024: Hannelore Agnethler, Beatrice Baragli: “dumu diĝir-ra-na: The god’s filiation in Mesopotamian incantation literature”, Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 24, 151–205 https://doi.org/10.1163/15692124-12341346
  • 2024: Sahala, A., Baragli, B., Lentini, G. & Tushingham, P.: “Towards a Word Similarity Gold Standard for Akkadian: Creation and Model Optimisation”. IDANES 66, 4–14. https://doi.org/10.1515/itit-2023-0065
  • 2023: Beatrice Baragli, Peter Zilberg: “An Old Babylonian fragment featuring the sun-god”, Orientalia 92, 320–326.
  • 2023: Beatrice Baragli, Uri Gabbay: “The Ritual for Opening a Canal from Nineveh”, Iraq 85, 73–84. https://doi.org/10.1017/irq.2024.3
  • 2023: Beatrice Baragli, Jeremiah Peterson: “Utu and Inana: A Sumerian Cultic Song Containing a Myth Featuring the Journey of the Rising Sun, the Appearance of the Morning Star, and the Aromatics Trade”, Oriens Antiquus 5, 11–62.
  • 2022: Beatrice Baragli, “The Bilingual Chiasmus: A Unique Rhetorical Device for ‘Knotting’ Words in Sumerian-Akkadian Literature”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 81, 261–281. https://doi.org/10.1086/721351
  • 2022: Beatrice Baragli, “The Sun of Nippur: Tracing the Origin of Old Babylonian Sumerian Compositions to Utu Based on Literary Features”, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 112, 321–346.
  • 2022: Beatrice Baragli, “From the eBL Lab 34. Further Kiutu Fragments and Joins”, KASKAL 19, 185–190.
  • 2022: Beatrice Baragli, Daisuke Shibata: “From the eBL Lab 35. BM 38873: A Parallel Fragment to Kiutu M”, KASKAL 19, 190–193.
  • 2021: Beatrice Baragli, Zsombor J. Földi: “From the eBL Lab 23. A Harsh Punishment for an Evil Spirit: New Fragments of a Sumerian Kiutu from Ashurbanipal’s Library”, KASKAL 18, 233–238.
  • 2019: Beatrice Baragli, “Abracadabra incantations: Nonsense or healing therapies?”, KASKAL 16, 293–321.
  • Accepted: “The Sumerian Compound Verbs in the First Millennium”, Proceedings of the Workshop “Late Sumerian: Case Studies, Challenges, Perspectives”, Welt des Orients.
  • Accepted: Beatrice Baragli, Uri Gabbay: “Preface”, Proceedings of the Workshop ‘Late Sumerian: Case Studies, Challenges, Perspectives’, Welt des Orients.

Articles in non-peer-reviewed journals and reviews

  • 2025: Review of: Konstantopoulos, G. 2023. The Divine/Demonic Seven and the Place of Demons in Mesopotamia. (Ancient Magic and Divination 20). Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 2025, 117–120 https://doi.org/10.1515/za-2024-0010
  • 2023: Beatrice Baragli, Armando Bramanti: “Fourth meeting of the Giovani Ricercatori Italiani di Storia e Filologia del Vicino Oriente Antico (GRISeF-VOA) – Ongoing Research”, *Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires* 2023/34, 74–76.
  • 2023: Review of: Ceravolo, M. 2022.L’historiola nella Mesopotamia antica. Rome: Bulzoni. ASDIWAL – Revue genevoise d’anthropologie et d’histoire des religions 18, 188–190.

Book chapters

  • 2024: Beatrice Baragli: “When ‘Reason’ is Gone: Reflections on the Usage of the Akkadian Term ṭēmu”, in Elisabetta Cianfanelli, Fiammetta Gori (eds.), níĝ-ba dub-sar maḫ. Studies on Ebla and the Ancient Near East presented to Amalia Catagnoti, Documenta Asiana 14, 53–59 (Rome: Quasar).
  • 2023: Beatrice Baragli, “Representing Time in the Kiutu Incantation-prayers”, in Sophus Helle, Gina Konstantopoulos (eds.), The Shape of Stories: Narrative Structures in Cuneiform Literature, Cuneiform Monographs 54, 185–207 (Leiden/Boston: Brill). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004539761
  • 2021: Beatrice Baragli, “What Can Eliade Still Say to Assyriology?: The Reception of a Historian of Religions in Ancient Near Eastern Studies”, in: Beatrice Baragli, Albert Dietz, Zsombor J. Földi, Patrizia Heindl, Polly Lohmann and Sarah P. Schlüter (eds.), Distant Worlds and Beyond. Special Issue Dedicated to the Graduate School Distant Worlds (2012‒2021), Distant Worlds Journal Special Issues 3 (Heidelberg: Propylaeum), 15–23. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.886.c11945
  • 2021: Beatrice Baragli, Albert Dietz, Zsombor J. Földi, Patrizia Heindl, Polly Lohmann and Sarah P. Schlüter: “Preface”, in: Beatrice Baragli, Albert Dietz, Zsombor J. Földi, Patrizia Heindl, Polly Lohmann and Sarah P. Schlüter (eds.), Distant Worlds and Beyond. Special Issue Dedicated to the Graduate School Distant Worlds (2012‒2021), Distant Worlds Journal Special Issues 3 (Heidelberg: Propylaeum), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.886.c11943