Lidewij van de Peut is an Assyriologist and Hittitologist at the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO). Her research focuses on the use and function of written texts from ancient Anatolia and Mesopotamia in the second and first millennium BCE and the collection history of the Böhl collection. She is particularly interested in the performance and rhetoric of religious and political literature, and in the transfer of texts and knowledge throughout the ancient Near East. Currently she works on the Hittite objects in the Böhl collection.

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Fields of interest

• Assyriology;
• Hittitology;
• Philology;
• Rhetoric;
• Performance and performativity;
• Intertextuality;
• Transfer of texts and knowledge;
• Collection history;
• Archival studies

Research

I currently work on two projects. One focuses on the Hittite objects in the Böhl collection. Not only do I21 study the objects and texts written on them, but also their origins and collection history. The other project investigates the relationship between form and function of recitative literature in Early Hittite Anatolia (ca. 1650-1320 BCE).

Grants and awards

2012-2016; Doctoral fellowship at the Excellence Cluster 264 Topoi, Berlin, to do my PhD research at the Freie Universität Berlin within the graduate programme ‘Ancient Languages and Texts’ of the Berlin Graduate School for Ancient Studies.

Curriculum vitae

2024-present; NINO Visiting Research Fellow, NINO, Universiteit Leiden.

2022; PhD in Altorientalistik, Freie Universität Berlin (defence in 2018, publication and title in 2022).

2019-2020; NINO Postdoctoral Fellow Böhl Collection Cataloguing Project, NINO, Universiteit Leiden.

2019; Lecturer, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University.

2018-2019; Research Assistant in Assyriology, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University.

2012; MA in Classics and Ancient Near Eastern Civilisations (research master), specialization: Assyriology, Leiden University

Selected publications

2023; "The Rise and Fall of the Hymn in Hittite Literature", in Rollinger, R., I. Madreiter et al. (eds.), The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East: Papers Held at the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale and the 12th Melammu Symposium, University of Innsbruck, July 16-20, 2018, pp. 831-848.

2022; Persuading the Divine: On the Composition of Hittite Prayers, Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten 69, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden.

2022; “The Emotions behind the Hittite Prayers”, in Sonik, K. and U. Steinert (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East, pp. 440-452.

2019; “Proverbs as Argument: A Rhetorical Strategy in Hittite Prayers”, in Aygül, S. (ed.), IX. Uluslararası Hititoloji Kongresi bildirileri, Çorum 08-14 Eylül 2014 = Acts of the IXth International Congress of Hititology, Çorum, September 08-14, pp. 781-804.

2019; “Omzwervingen van een kleitablet”, Phoenix 65.3, pp. 30-38.

Activities