Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 4177
E-Mail:	r.de.boer@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SMES Assyriologie
Office Address:	Witte Singel-complex Witte Singel 25/M. de Vrieshof 4 2311 BZ Leiden Room number 2.04c

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Fields of interest

Old Babylonian period, Mari texts

PhD research

The effects of the Amorite Migration to Mesopotamia
Supervisors: Jan Gerrit Dercksen and Wilfred van Soldt

As part of the NWO-funded research project "The Impact of Migration" led by dr. J.G. Dercksen I am studying the Amorite migrations at the beginning of the Old Babylonian period (ca. 2000-1800 BC). The Amorites were originally a nomadic people from Syria. During the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BC) people designated as "Amorite" are already found in Mesopotamia proper (southern Iraq). Around 1900 BC a group of Amorites took power in Northern Babylonia (roughly the middle part of Iraq), resulting in a patchwork of smaller kingdoms. Within one generation, around 1850 BC, most of these Amorite kingdoms had been conquered by Sumu-la-El of Babylon, forming the later heartland of the Babylonian state. Through the study of the many economic texts and letters from these kingdoms I will attempt to gain new insights into this formative period of Mesopotamian history. The focus lies on the "impact" the Amorite takeover had on land ownership, society, economy and political history.

CV

1999-2003
Economics at Groningen university

2004-2005
Assyriology at Groningen university

2005-2008
BA in Assyriology at Leiden university

2008-2010
MA at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris

2010-present 
PhD research at Leiden university

Publications

Articles
"Membre de la cohorte du roi" in NABU 2010/78
"Un orde royal sur le partage des biens au Moyen Euphrate" in RA (forthcoming)
"De Oud-Babylonische Mari-archieven: een introductie" in Phoenix (forthcoming)

Book reviews
"Chagar Bazar III" by Ö Tunca and A. Baghdo (eds) in BiOr
"The Old Assyrian Period, (OBO 160/5)" by K. Veenhof and J. Eidem in BiOr
"Rebellions and Peripiphereis in the Cuneiform World" by S.F.C Richardson (ed) in BiOr
"The seal of the sanga" by M. Tanret (forthcoming) in BiOr