Prof. dr. W.H. (Wilfred) van Soldt - Faculty - Faculty of Humanities

Prof. dr. W.H. (Wilfred) van Soldt

Position:

Professor

Expertise:

Assyriology

Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 2034
E-Mail:	w.h.van.soldt@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 2.04a
Personal Homepage:	www.uw-WHvanSoldt.nl

Research

Fascinare: enchanting, that is the effect that Ancient Mesopotamia has on me. Being able to read the cuneiform script with its 600 signs and its 3000 years of history opens the gate to the understanding of at least ten oriental languages, like Sumerian and Akkadian, which have only survived because of their written records. It constitutes a great wealth of material, to which new data are being added continuously. Through these languages one penetrates into the cultures of the peoples who spoke them, deeper and deeper until one reaches the core: sensing how people lived, thought, believed, worked en did science in their own way. And in doing so one gets much respect for these ancient cultures, which look closer to us the better we understand them.

Publications

(2000) "Syrian Chronology in the Old and Early Middle Babylonian Periods", Just in Time: Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Ancient Near Eastern Chronology (2nd Millennum BC), Ghent 7-9 July 2000, D. Homes-Fredericq and L. De Meyer (eds.), publ. in Akkadica 119, 103-116.
(1995) Shamash Omens from Enuma Anu Enlil: Tablets 23 (24) - 29 (30), Leiden, 15 plates, xi + 151 pp.
(1994) Altbabylonische Briefe XIII: Letters in the British Museum, II, Leiden, x + 163 pp.
(1991) Studies in the Akkadian of Ugarit: Dating and Grammar, Alter Orient und Altes Testament 40, xxviii + 805 pp., Neukirchen.
(1990) Altbabylonische Briefe XII: Letters in the British Museum, Leiden, x + 155 pp.

2011

Soldt, W.H., van (2011)
Some Remarks on RS 34.141: A Letter from the Urtēnu-Archive. In: Düring, B.S. & Wossink, A. (Eds.), Correlates of complexity : essays in archaeology and Assyriology dedicated tot Diederik J.W. Meijer in honour of his 65th birthday (Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden), 116. , pp. 193-198. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (2011)
The Role of Babylon in Western Peripheral Education. In Cancik-Kirschbaum, E., van Ess, M., Marzahn, J. (Eds.) Babylon : Wissenskultur in Orient und Okzident (pp. 197-211). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)

2010

Soldt, W.H., van (2010)
Landholders in administrative texts. In Soldt, W.H., van (Ed.) Society and Administration in Ancient Ugarit Vol. 114 (pp. 153-163). Leiden: Netherlands Institute for the Near East.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
Soldt, W.H., van (2010)
Sijannu, Silhu, Sigata. In: Streck, M.P. (Ed.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie (Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie), 12. , pp. 479-483. Berlin: de Gruyter.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (Ed.) (2010)
Society and Administration in Ancient Ugarit. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.
(Book editorial)
Soldt, W.H., van (2010)
The Akkadian legal texts from Ugarit. In: Démare-Lafont, S. & Lemaire, A. (Eds.), Trois millénaires de formulaires juridiques (Hautes études orientales - Moyen et Proche-Orient), 4. , pp. 85-124. Genève: Librairie Droz S.A..
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (2010)
The City-Administration of Ugarit. In Kogan, L. (Ed.) City Administration in the Ancient Near East, Proceedings of the 53e Rencontre Assyriologique Interenationale Vol. 2 Vol. 4 (pp. 247-261). Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
Soldt, W.H., van (2010)
The Ugaritic Suffixes -āyu and -ānu. In: Shehata, D., Weiershäuser, F., Zand, K.V. (Eds.), Von Göttern und Menschen (Cuneiform Monographs), 41. , pp. 307-327. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (2010)
The adaptation of the cuneiform script to foreign languages. In Voogt, A., de & Finkel, I. (Eds.) The Idea of Writing - Play and Complexity (pp. 117-127). Leiden, Boston: Brill.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
Soldt, W.H., van (2010)
The interaction of syllabic and alphabetic cuneiform writing in Ugarit. In Voogt, A., de & Finkel, I. (Eds.) The Idea of Writing - Play and Complexity (pp. 345-355). Leiden, Boston: Brill.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)

2009

Soldt, W.H., van (2009)
Sapunu. In: Streck, M.P. (Ed.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 12, pp. 29-31. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
(Part of book or chapter of book)

2008

Soldt, W.H., van (2008)
Salma, Salmija. In: Streck, M.P. (Ed.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archaologie (Reallexikon der Assyriologie), 11. , p. 579. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (2008)
Samna. In: Streck, M.P. (Ed.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archaologie (Reallexikon der Assyriologie), 11. , p. 628. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (2008)
Studies on the sakinu-Official: The sakinu of other Ugaritic towns and of the palace and the queen's house, and the findspots of the tablets. Ugarit-Forschungen, 38, pp. 675-697.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (2008)
The Location of Idu. Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 3, pp. 72-74.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (2008)
The Ugarit Version of Syllabary A. In Spek, R.J., van der & Haaijer, G. (Eds.) Studies in ancient Near Eastern world view and society presented to Marten Stol on the occasion of his 65th birthday, 10 November 2005, and his retirement from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (pp. 255-275). Bethesda Md, USA: CDL Press.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)

2007

Soldt, W.H., van (2007)
Ra's Ibn Hani. In: Streck, M.P. (Ed.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie (Reallexikon der Assyriologie), 11. , pp. 256-259. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (2007)
Raqdu. In: Streck, M.P. (Ed.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und der vorderasiatischen Archäologie (Reallexikon der Assyriologie), 11. , p. 249. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (2007)
Rib-Addi. In: Streck, M.P. (Ed.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie (Reallexikon der Assyriologie), 11. , pp. 344-346. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (2007)
Shaärtu. In: Krebernik, M., Postgate, J.N., Seidl, U., Stol, M., Wilhelm, G. (Eds.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie (Band 11), 5/6. , pp. 473-474. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
(Part of book or chapter of book)

2006

Reiner, E. & Hunger, H. & Kienast, B. & Renger, J. & Stolper, M.W. & Soldt, W.H., van (2006)
35 lemmata, ca. 50 pp. In: Biggs, R.D., Brinkman, J.A., Civil, M., Farber, W., Roth, M.T., Stolper, M.W. (Eds.), The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of Chicago (The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of Chicago), 18. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns Inc..
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (2006)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Ayanis I. Ten years' Excavations at Rusahinili Eiduru-Kai 1989-1998]. In: Bibliotheca Orientalis, 63, pp. 373-376.
(Book review)
Soldt, W.H., van (2006)
Studies in the sakinu-Official (3). Ugarit-Forschungen, 38, pp. 675-697.
(Article)

2005

Soldt, W.H., van & Kalvelagen, R.K. & Katz, D. (Eds.) (2005)
Ethnicity in Ancient Mesopotamia. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.
(Book editorial)
Soldt, W.H., van (2005)
The Topography of the City-State of Ugarit. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 324). Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.
(Book (monograph))
Soldt, W.H., van (2005)
Von Königen, Beamten und Schreibern: Die Kontakte von Ugarit mit seiner Umwelt. In Prechel, D.O. (Ed.) Motivation und Mechanismen des Kulturkontaktes in der Späten Bronzezeit (pp. 247-267). Florence: LoGisma.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)

2004

Soldt, W.H., van (2004)
"De mazzel" en andere zaken: de verspreiding van de Mesopotamische cultuur na 1500 v.Chr. (oratie). Leiden: Universiteit Leiden.p. 20.
(Inaugural lecture)
Soldt, W.H., van (2004)
De Oorsprong van het Schrift. In: Korteweg, N. (Ed.), De oorsprong. Over het ontstaan van het leven en alles eromheenAmsterdam: Boom.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (2004)
Palast. A. VIII. Ugarit. In: Edzard, D.O., Krebernik, M., Postgate, J.N., Seidl, U., Stol, M., Wilhelm, G. (Eds.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, pp. 229-230. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (2004)
Palast. B. Archäologisch, §8.2.3b. Ugarit. In: Edzard, D.O., Krebernik, M., Postgate, J.N., Seidl, U., Stol, M., Wilhelm, G. (Eds.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, pp. 259-260. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter.
(Part of book or chapter of book)

2003

Soldt, W.H., van (2003)
Het Tukulti-Ninurta Epos. In: Demaree, R.J. & Veenhof, K.R. (Eds.), Zij schreven geschiedenis. Historische documenten uit het Oude Nabije Oosten (2500 - 100 v. Chr.) (Verhandelingen van het Genootschap "Ex Oriente Lux"), 33. , pp. 200-214. Leiden/Leuven: Ex Oriente Lux - Peeters.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (2003)
Ordal. A. Mesopotamien. In: Edzard, D.O. & Frantz-Szabó, G. (Eds.), Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie (Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäolog), 10, 1/2. , pp. 124-129. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (2003)
The Use of Hurrian Names at Ugarit. Ugarit-Forschungen, 35, pp. 681-707.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (2003)
The vocalization of the word mlk, "king", in Late Bronze Age syllabic texts from Syria and Palestine. In Baasten, M.F.J. & Peursen, W.Th., van (Eds.) Hamlet on a hill, Semitic and Greek Studies Presented to Professor T. Muraoka on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (pp. 449-471). Leuven: Peeters.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)

2002

Soldt, W.H., van (2002)
Additions to 'Studies on the sakinu-official (1)', UF 33 (2001). Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 4, p. 73.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (2002)
Een tien-steden tour door Mesopotamië. [Bespreking van: Mesopotamia. The invention of the city]. In: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 115, pp. 449-452.
(Book review)
Soldt, W.H., van (2002)
Studies on the sakinu-Official (2): The functions of the sakinu of Ugarit. Ugarit-Forschungen, 34, pp. 805-828.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (2002)
The Orthography of Ugaritic Words in Texts Written by the Assyrian Scribe Nahish-Shalmu. In Loretz, O., Metzler, K., Schaudig, H. (Eds.) Ex Mesopotamia et Syria Lux. Festschrift fuer M. Dietrich (pp. 685-697). Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)

2001

Soldt, W.H., van (2001)
De Hurrieten: Een Oud-Oosters volk komt weer tot leven. Kunst en Wetenschap, 10 (3), pp. 9-10.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (2001)
De internationale betrekkingen in de Amarna-periode. Phoenix : bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 47 (1-2), pp. 53-68.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (2001)
Nahish-shalmu, an Assyrian Scribe Working in the 'Southern Palace' at Ugarit. In Soldt, W.H., van, Dercksen, J.G., Kouwenberg, N.J.C., Krispijn, Th.J.H. (Eds.) Veenhof Anniversary Volume (pp. 428-444). Leuven: Peeters.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
Soldt, W.H., van (2001)
Stone Objects. In Loon, M.N., van (Ed.) Selenkahiyeh, Final reports on the University of Chicago and University of Amsterdam Excavations in the Tabqa Reservoir, Nothern Syria, 1967-1975 (pp. 447-477). Istanbul/Leiden: Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Instanbul.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
Soldt, W.H., van (2001)
Studies on the sakinu official (1). Th spelling and the office-holders at Ugarit. Ugarit-Forschungen, 33, pp. 579-599.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (2001)
Te land, ter zee en op de vlucht: reizen en trekken in de Levant in de Late Bronstijd. Phoenix : bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 47, pp. 148-162.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van & Dercksen, J.G. & Krispijn, T.J.H. & Kouwenberg, N.J.C. (Eds.) (2001)
Veenhof Anniversary Volume, Studies presented to Klaas R. Veenhof on the Occasion of his Sixty-fifth birthday. Leuven: Peeters.
(Book editorial)

2000

Soldt, W.H., van (2000)
Private Archives at Ugarit. In Bongenaar, A.C.V.M. (Ed.) Interdependency of Institutions and Private Entrepreneurs (MOS Studies 2) (pp. 229-245). Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
Soldt, W.H., van (2000)
Syrian Chronology in the Old and Early Middle Babylonian Periods. In Homes-Fredericq, D. & Meyer, L., de (Eds.) Just in Time: Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Ancient Near Eastern Chronology (2nd Millennum BC), Ghent 7-9 July 20000 (Akkadica 119-2000) (pp. 103-116). Gent, België: Fondation Assyriologique Georges Dossin.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
Soldt, W.H., van (2000)
recensie. [Bespreking van: The Amarna Scholarly Tablets]. In: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 120, pp. 105-106.
(Book review)

1999

Soldt, W.H., van & Huehnergard, J. (1999)
A cuneiform lexical text from Ashkelon with a Canaanite column. Israel Exploration Journal, 49, pp. 184-192.
(Article)
Folmer, M.L. & Soldt, W.H., van (1999)
De Noordwestsemitische talen. In: Loose, A.A. (Ed.), De Talen van het Oude Nabije Oosten (Ex Oriente Lux), 32. Leuven: Peeters.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Folmer, M.L. & Soldt, W.H., van (1999)
De Noordwestsemitische talen. Phoenix : bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 44
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (1999)
EA 374. NABU, pp. 4-5.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (1999)
Studies in the Topography of Ugarit (4), Town Sizes and Districts. Ugarit-Forschungen, 31, pp. 749-776.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (1999)
The syllabic Akkadian texts. In: Watson, W.G.E. & Wyatt, N. (Eds.), Handbook of Ugaritic Studies (Handbuch der Orientalistik), I/39. , pp. 28-45. Leiden: Brill.
(Part of book or chapter of book)

1998

Hoftijzer, J. & Soldt, W.H., van (1998)
Appendix: Texts from Ugarit Pertaing to Seafaring. In: Wachsmann, S. (Ed.), Seagoring ships and seamansjip in the Bronze Age Levant, pp. 333-344. London: Chatham.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (1998)
Het Akkadisch. Phoenix : bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 44, pp. 68-83.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (1998)
Het Amoritisch, het Kassitisch, het Hurritisch, het Urartees. Phoenix : bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 44, pp. 87-99.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (1998)
Het Ugaritisch, het Amarna-Kanaänitisch. Phoenix : bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 44, pp. 129-137.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (1998)
More on Kassite Ashalban. NABU, 3, p. 90.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (1998)
PRU 6 no. 78 (RS 19.41). Towns in the land of Siyannu or in the land of Ugarit? In: Dietrich, M. & Kottsieper, I. (Eds.), Und Mose schrieb dieses Lied auf, Festschrift O. Loretz (Alter Orient und Altes Testament), 250. , pp. 777-784. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (1998)
Recensie. [Bespreking van: Canaanite in the Amarna Tablets]. In: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 118, pp. 595-597.
(Book review)
Soldt, W.H., van (1998)
Studies in the Topography of Ugarit (2). The Borders of Ugarit. Ugarit-Forschungen, 29, pp. 683-703.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (1998)
Studies in the topography of Ugarit (3): groups of towns and their locations. Ugarit-Forschungen, 30, pp. 703-744.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van & Marquez Rowe, I. (1998)
The Hurrian Word for 'Brideprice' in an Akkadian Text from Alalah IV. Aula Orientalis, 16, pp. 132-133.
(Article)

1997

Soldt, W.H., van (1997)
Amarna upsu = Ugaritic 'ps, 'boundary (stone)'. Notes Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 90, p. 84.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (1997)
Kassite Textiles for Enlil-Neraru's Messenger. Altorientalische Forschungen, 24, pp. 97-104.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (1997)
Oudbabylonische recepten. Phoenix : bulletin uitgegeven door het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux, 43, pp. 103-113.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (1997)
The Spelling of the Ugaritic Toponyms, Studies in the Topography of Ugarit (1). Ugarit-Forschungen, 28, pp. 653-692.
(Article)

1996

Soldt, W.H., van (1996)
Boekbespreking. [Bespreking van: Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia, volume II]. In: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, 86, pp. 180-181.
(Book review)
Soldt, W.H., van (1996)
KTU 4.784.2. Ugarit-Forschungen, 27, pp. 485-486.
(Article)

1995

Soldt, W.H., van (1995)
Babylonian Lexical, Religious and Literary Texts and Scribal Education at Ugarit, and its Implications for the Alphabetic Literary Texts. In: Dietrich, M. & Loretz, O. (Eds.), Ugarit - Ein ostmediterranes Kulturzentrum im Alten Orient, Ergebnisse und Perspektive der Forschung, Band I: Ugarit und seine altorientalische Umwelt, pp. 171-212. Münster: NN.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (1995)
More on Ugaritica V no.36. Notes Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 98
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (1995)
Solar Omens of Enuma Anu Enlil: Tablets 23 (24) - 29 (30). (LXXIII). Leiden: Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul.
(Book (monograph))
Soldt, W.H., van (1995)
The Akkadian of Ugarit: Lexicographical Aspects. Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici, 12, pp. 205-215.
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (1995)
The Middle Babylonian Personal Name shesh-du-kam. Notes Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 87
(Article)
Soldt, W.H., van (1995)
Three Tablets from Tell Hamman et-Turkman. In: Hout, Th.P.J., van den & Roos, J., de (Eds.), Studio Historiae Ardens, Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Ph.H.J. Houwink ten Cate o the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, pp. 275-291. Leiden: NN.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
Soldt, W.H., van (1995)
Ugarit: A Second-Millennium Kingdom on the Mediterranean Coast. In: Sasson, J.M. (Ed.), Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (4 vols.), vol. II, pp. 1255-1266. New York: NN.
(Part of book or chapter of book)

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