Mark Weeden

Associate Professor, Ancient Middle Eastern Languages

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Research interests: Hittite, Akkadian, Sumerian, Anatolian Hieroglyphs, history and literature of the cuneiform world.

Before Joining UCL Greek and Latin I worked at SOAS, University of London, for 10 years (2011-21). Before that I was also a British Academy Research Fellow at SOAS, worked briefly as a lecturer at Oxford, and did my PhD and MA at SOAS again.听I originally did a degree in Greek and Latin at Oxford (1988-92).听

I work mainly on the history and literature of the cuneiform world.

Cuneiform texts are three-dimensional physical objects which date directly from the ancient world, and a good deal of my work is bound up with that materiality - reading original texts and trying to understand their functions or meanings. I think it is important to work closely with archaeologists and I work as an epigrapher at a number of excavations in Turkey during the summer, preparing newly excavated cuneiform and Anatolian Hieroglyphic inscriptions for publication. A great deal of my research is connected with working out the historical and social background of these documents, which date to the second and听 early first millennia BC, the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. I am also working on a project with Iraqi and other colleagues concerning agricultural cuneiform tablets from the 3^rd听millennium BC that were discovered in Iraqi excavations. Since my PhD I have been interested in the transmission of scholarly knowledge across the cuneiform world and the social and material contexts of writing, as well as of the literature, as we refer to it, that is written in it. Some topics of my recent research have been: publication of an important Sumerian source for a rebellion in southern Babylonia in the 18^th听century BC, the relationship between Babylonian epic poetry and the materials of scribal training, the social contexts of Babylonian love poetry, as well as chapters on Hittite and post-Hittite history in Bronze and Iron Age Anatolia and Syria.

I am currently the chair of the London Centre for the Ancient Near East, an organisation which tries to bring together representatives of various London-based institutions involved in the study of the rich cultural legacy of this region and puts on a regular seminar series (). I serve on the Editorial Boards of a number of journals and monograph series, co-edit the journal听Iraq听and am Editor-in-Chief of the Brill series Handbook of Oriental Studies: Ancient Near East.

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Authored Books

Heinhold-Krahmer, Susanne and Hazenbos, Joost and Hawkins, J. David and Miller, Jared L. and Rieken, Elisabeth and Weeden, Mark (2019)听.听Berlin: De Gruyter.
Weeden, Mark (2011)听.听Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Articles

Lambert, W.G. & Weeden, M. (2020). . Revue d鈥橝ssyriologie et d鈥檃rch茅ologie orientale 114 (2020), 15-62.
Hawkins, J.D & Weeden, M. (2021). . Altorientalische Forschungen48/2, 384-400.
Maner, 脟. / Weeden, M. / Alparslan, M. (2021). . Altorientalische Forschungen 48/2, 347-383,
Fairbairn, Andrew S. / Wright, Nathan J. / Weeden, Mark / Barjamovic, Gojko / Matsumura, Kimiyoshi / Rasch, Ron (2019)听.听Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, (28) 3, pp 327-346.
Weeden, Mark (2019)听.听Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici Nuova Serie, (4), pp 217-227.
Weeden, Mark (2018)听.听Welt des Orients, (48) 2, pp 330-356.
Weeden, Mark (2017)听.听Anatolian Archaeological Studies, (20), pp 17-21.
Weeden, Mark (2017)听.听Anatolian Archaeological Studies, (20), pp 13-15.
Weeden, Mark (2016)听.听Anatolian Archaeological Studies, (19), pp 81-104.
Weeden, Mark (2015)听.听Nouvelles assyriologiques breves et utilitaires听2, pp 65-66.
Weeden, Mark (2013)听.听Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, (56) 2, pp 1-20.
Weeden, Mark (2013)听.听Akt眉el Arkeoloji, (36), pp 64-71.
Weeden, Mark (2013)听.听Anatolian Archaeological Studies听18, pp 19-35.
Weeden, Mark (2013)听.听Anatolian Archaeological Studies, (18), pp 15-17.
Weeden, Mark (2012)听.听Nouvelles assyriologiques br猫ves et utilitaires, (2012/3) 49, pp 63-67.
Weeden, Mark (2011)听.听Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, (74) 1, pp 59-76.
Ta艧, 陌lknur and Weeden, Mark (2011)听.听Anatolian Studies, (61), pp 55-60.
Weeden, Mark (2011)听.听Altorientalische Forschungen, (38) 1, pp 116-134.
Weeden, Mark (2010)听.听IRAQ, (72), pp 39-62.
Weeden, Mark and Ta艧, 陌lknur (2010)听.听Journal of the American Oriental Society, (130) 3, pp 349-359.
Weeden, Mark (2009)听.听Welt des Orients, (39) 1, pp 77-107.
Hawkins, J.D. and Weeden, Mark (2008)听.听Anatolian Archaeological Studies, (17), pp 241-249.

Edited Books

Weeden, Mark and Ullmann, Lee Z., (eds.), (2017)听.听Leiden: Brill. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East).

听Book Chapters

2021: The Scholar and the Poet. Standard Babylonian Gilgamesh VI vs. Iliad 5. In A. Kelly and C. Metcalf (eds) Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 80-106.
鈥� in press: 听Power-plays: types of lover and types of love-poetry in Akkadian from the third and second millennia BC. In A. Alshaer (ed.) Love and Poetry in the Middle East from Antiquity to the Present. London: I.B. Tauris. 听听
鈥� in press: The Hittite Empire. In K. Radner, D. Potts and N. M枚ller (eds) Oxford History of the Ancient Near East Vol. 3. Oxford: OUP.
鈥� in press: Central Anatolia and Northern Syria in the Iron Age. In K. Radner, D. Potts and N. M枚ller (eds) Oxford History of the Ancient Near East Vol. 4. Oxford: OUP.听
Weeden, Mark (2020)听. In: Cammarosano, Michele and Devecchi, Elena and Viano, Maurizio, (eds.),听talugae拧 witte拧 : Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Stefano de Martino on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. M眉nster: Zaphon, pp 469-488.
Weeden, Mark (2020)听. In: Hasselbach-Andee, Rebecca, (ed.),听A companion to ancient Near Eastern languages. Hoboken: Wiley, pp 505-520.
Weeden, Mark (2020)听. In: De Martino, Stefano and Devecchi, Elena, (eds.),听Anatolia Between the 13th and the 12th century BCE. Turin: LoGisma, pp 473-496.
S眉el, Ayg眉l and Weeden, Mark (2019)听. In: Bolatti Guzzo, Natalia and Taracha, Piotr, (eds.),听"And I Knew Twelve Languages" A Tribute to Massimo Poetto on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. Warsaw: Agade Bis, pp 661-668.
Weeden, Mark (2019)听. In: Blanchard, Vincent, (ed.),听Royaumes oubli茅s : De l鈥檈mpire hittite aux Aram茅ens. Paris: LienArt.
Matsumura, Kimiyoshi and Weeden, Mark (2019)听. In: S眉el, Ayg奴l, (ed.),听Acts of the IXth International Congress of Hittitology, 脟orum, 08-14 September 2014. 脟orum: T.C. 脟orum Valili臒i, pp 533-566.
S眉el, Ayg眉l and Weeden, Mark (2019)听. In: S眉el, Ayg眉l, (ed.),听Acts of the IXth International Congress of Hittitology, 脟orum, 08-14 September 2014. 脟orum: T.C. 脟orum Valili臒i, pp 983-1004.
Weeden, Mark (2019)听.听Keilschriftliche Syllabare - Zur Methodik Ihrer Erstellung. Berlin: PeWe-Verlag, pp 129-153.
Weeden, Mark (2018)听. In: Ferrara, Silvia and Val茅rio, Miguel, (eds.),听Pathways into Script Formation in the Ancient Mediterranean. Rome: Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche, pp 51-74.
Mark, Weeden (2018)听. In: Wissa, M., (ed.),听Scribal Practices and the Social Construction of Knowledge in Antiquity, Late Antiquity and Medieval Islam. Leuven-Paris-Bristol, CT: Peeters, pp 33-60.
Weeden, Mark and Ullmann, Lee Z. (2017)听. In: Weeden, Mark and Ullmann, Lee Z., (eds.),听Hittite Landscape and Geography. Leiden: Brill, pp 1-13.
S眉el, M. and S眉el, A. and Sipahi, T. and Weeden, Mark (2017)听. In: Weeden, Mark and Ullmann, Lee Z., (eds.),听Hittite Landscape and Geography. Leiden: Brill, pp 50-57.
Matsumura, Kimiyoshi and Weeden, Mark (2017)听. In: Weeden, Mark and Ullmann, Lee Z., (eds.),听Hittite Landscape and Geography. Leiden: Brill, pp 106-118.
Hawkins, J. David and Weeden, Mark (2017)听. In: Weeden, Mark and Ullmann, Lee Z., (eds.),听Hittite Landscape and Geography. Leiden: Brill, pp 281-294.
S眉el, Ayg眉l and Weeden, Mark (2017)听. In: Weeden, Mark and Ullmann, Lee Z., (eds.),听Hittite Landscape and Geography. Leiden: Brill, pp 200-208.
Weeden, Mark (2017)听. In: Heffron, Y. and Stone, A. and Worthington, M., (eds.),听At the Dawn of History, Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of J.N. Postgate. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, pp 721-737.
Weeden, Mark (2017)听.听The Discovery of an Anatolian Empire/Bir Anadolu 陌mparatorlu臒unun Ke艧fi. A Colloquium to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Decipherment of the Hittite Language (November 14th and 15th, 2015; Istanbul Archaeological Museum - Library). Istanbul: T眉rk Eskicag Bilimleri Enstitusu Yayinlari, pp 120-129.
Weeden, Mark (2016)听. In: Shibata, Daisuke and Yamada, Shigeo, (eds.),听Cultures and Societies in the Middle Euphrates and Habur Areas in the Second Millennium BC 鈥� I Scribal Education and Scribal Traditions. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp 159-193.
Hawkins, J.D. and Weeden, Mark (2016)听. In: Wilkinson, T.J. and Peltenburg, E. and Wilkinson, E.B., (eds.),听Carchemish in Context. The Land of Carchemish Project, 2006-2010. Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, pp 9-21.
Weeden, Mark (2014)听. In: Radner, Karen, (ed.),听State Correspondence in the Ancient World: From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 32-64.
Weeden, Mark (2014)听. In: Gordin, Shai, (ed.),听Visualizing Knowledge and Creating Meaning in Ancient Writing Systems. Berlin: PeWe-Verlag, pp 81-100.
Peker, Hasan and Weeden, Mark (2014)听. In: Marchetti, Nicol貌, (ed.),听Karkemish An Ancient Capital on the Euphrates. Bologna: Ante Quem, pp 132-136.
Weeden, Mark (2013)听. In: Mouton, Alice and Rutherford, Ian and Yakubovich, Ilya, (eds.),听Luwian Identities. Culture, Language and Religion Between Anatolia and the Aegean. Boston; Leiden: Brill, pp 73-86.
Weeden, Mark (2013)听. In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.),听Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, pp 73-98.
Weeden, Mark (2012)听. In: Devecchi, E, (ed.),听Palaeography and Scribal Practices in Syro-Palestine and Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, pp 229-251.
Weeden, Mark (2011)听. In: George, Andrew, (ed.),听Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions and Related Texts in the Sch酶yen Collection. Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press, pp 193-198.
Weeden, Mark (2011)听. In: Radner, Karen and Robson, Eleanor, (eds.),听Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 597-617.
Weeden, Mark (2010)听. In: Singer, Itamar, (ed.),听ipamati kistamati pari tumatimis. Luwian and Hittite Studies Presented to J. David Hawkins on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, pp 249-255.

听Book Reviews

Heinhold-Krahmer, Susanne and Hazenbos, Joost and Hawkins, J. David and Miller, Jared L. and Rieken, Elisabeth and Weeden, Mark (2019)听.听Berlin: De Gruyter.
Weeden, Mark (2011)听.听Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Fairbairn, Andrew S. and Wright, Nathan J. and Weeden, Mark and Barjamovic, Gojko and Matsumura, Kimiyoshi and Rasch, Ron (2019)听.听Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, (28) 3, pp 327-346.
Weeden, Mark (2019)听.听Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici Nuova Serie, (4), pp 217-227.
Weeden, Mark (2018)听.听Welt des Orients, (48) 2, pp 330-356.
Weeden, Mark (2017)听.听Anatolian Archaeological Studies, (20), pp 17-21.
Weeden, Mark (2017)听.听Anatolian Archaeological Studies, (20), pp 13-15.
Weeden, Mark (2016)听.听Anatolian Archaeological Studies, (19), pp 81-104.
Weeden, Mark (2015)听.听Nouvelles assyriologiques breves et utilitaires听2, pp 65-66.
Weeden, Mark (2013)听.听Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, (56) 2, pp 1-20.
Weeden, Mark (2013)听.听Akt眉el Arkeoloji, (36), pp 64-71.
Weeden, Mark (2013)听.听Anatolian Archaeological Studies听18, pp 19-35.
Weeden, Mark (2013)听.听Anatolian Archaeological Studies, (18), pp 15-17.
Weeden, Mark (2012)听.听Nouvelles assyriologiques br猫ves et utilitaires, (2012/3) 49, pp 63-67.
Weeden, Mark (2011)听.听Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, (74) 1, pp 59-76.
Ta艧, 陌lknur and Weeden, Mark (2011)听.听Anatolian Studies, (61), pp 55-60.
Weeden, Mark (2011)听.听Altorientalische Forschungen, (38) 1, pp 116-134.
Weeden, Mark (2010)听.听IRAQ, (72), pp 39-62.
Weeden, Mark and Ta艧, 陌lknur (2010)听.听Journal of the American Oriental Society, (130) 3, pp 349-359.
Weeden, Mark (2009)听.听Welt des Orients, (39) 1, pp 77-107.
Hawkins, J.D. and Weeden, Mark (2008)听.听Anatolian Archaeological Studies, (17), pp 241-249.
Weeden, Mark and Ullmann, Lee Z., (eds.), (2017)听.听Leiden: Brill. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East).
Weeden, Mark (2020)听. In: Cammarosano, Michele and Devecchi, Elena and Viano, Maurizio, (eds.),听talugae拧 witte拧 : Ancient Near Eastern Studies Presented to Stefano de Martino on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday. M眉nster: Zaphon, pp 469-488.
Weeden, Mark (2020)听. In: Hasselbach-Andee, Rebecca, (ed.),听A companion to ancient Near Eastern languages. Hoboken: Wiley, pp 505-520.
Weeden, Mark (2020)听. In: De Martino, Stefano and Devecchi, Elena, (eds.),听Anatolia Between the 13th and the 12th century BCE. Turin: LoGisma, pp 473-496.
S眉el, Ayg眉l and Weeden, Mark (2019)听. In: Bolatti Guzzo, Natalia and Taracha, Piotr, (eds.),听"And I Knew Twelve Languages" A Tribute to Massimo Poetto on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. Warsaw: Agade Bis, pp 661-668.
Weeden, Mark (2019)听. In: Blanchard, Vincent, (ed.),听Royaumes oubli茅s : De l鈥檈mpire hittite aux Aram茅ens. Paris: LienArt.
Matsumura, Kimiyoshi and Weeden, Mark (2019)听. In: S眉el, Ayg奴l, (ed.),听Acts of the IXth International Congress of Hittitology, 脟orum, 08-14 September 2014. 脟orum: T.C. 脟orum Valili臒i, pp 533-566.
S眉el, Ayg眉l and Weeden, Mark (2019)听. In: S眉el, Ayg眉l, (ed.),听Acts of the IXth International Congress of Hittitology, 脟orum, 08-14 September 2014. 脟orum: T.C. 脟orum Valili臒i, pp 983-1004.
Weeden, Mark (2019)听.听Keilschriftliche Syllabare - Zur Methodik Ihrer Erstellung. Berlin: PeWe-Verlag, pp 129-153.
Weeden, Mark (2018)听. In: Ferrara, Silvia and Val茅rio, Miguel, (eds.),听Pathways into Script Formation in the Ancient Mediterranean. Rome: Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche, pp 51-74.
Mark, Weeden (2018)听. In: Wissa, M., (ed.),听Scribal Practices and the Social Construction of Knowledge in Antiquity, Late Antiquity and Medieval Islam. Leuven-Paris-Bristol, CT: Peeters, pp 33-60.
Weeden, Mark and Ullmann, Lee Z. (2017)听. In: Weeden, Mark and Ullmann, Lee Z., (eds.),听Hittite Landscape and Geography. Leiden: Brill, pp 1-13.
S眉el, M. and S眉el, A. and Sipahi, T. and Weeden, Mark (2017)听. In: Weeden, Mark and Ullmann, Lee Z., (eds.),听Hittite Landscape and Geography. Leiden: Brill, pp 50-57.
Matsumura, Kimiyoshi and Weeden, Mark (2017)听. In: Weeden, Mark and Ullmann, Lee Z., (eds.),听Hittite Landscape and Geography. Leiden: Brill, pp 106-118.
Hawkins, J. David and Weeden, Mark (2017)听. In: Weeden, Mark and Ullmann, Lee Z., (eds.),听Hittite Landscape and Geography. Leiden: Brill, pp 281-294.
S眉el, Ayg眉l and Weeden, Mark (2017)听. In: Weeden, Mark and Ullmann, Lee Z., (eds.),听Hittite Landscape and Geography. Leiden: Brill, pp 200-208.
Weeden, Mark (2017)听. In: Heffron, Y. and Stone, A. and Worthington, M., (eds.),听At the Dawn of History, Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of J.N. Postgate. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, pp 721-737.
Weeden, Mark (2017)听.听The Discovery of an Anatolian Empire/Bir Anadolu 陌mparatorlu臒unun Ke艧fi. A Colloquium to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Decipherment of the Hittite Language (November 14th and 15th, 2015; Istanbul Archaeological Museum - Library). Istanbul: T眉rk Eskicag Bilimleri Enstitusu Yayinlari, pp 120-129.
Weeden, Mark (2016)听. In: Shibata, Daisuke and Yamada, Shigeo, (eds.),听Cultures and Societies in the Middle Euphrates and Habur Areas in the Second Millennium BC 鈥� I Scribal Education and Scribal Traditions. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp 159-193.
Hawkins, J.D. and Weeden, Mark (2016)听. In: Wilkinson, T.J. and Peltenburg, E. and Wilkinson, E.B., (eds.),听Carchemish in Context. The Land of Carchemish Project, 2006-2010. Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, pp 9-21.
Weeden, Mark (2014)听. In: Radner, Karen, (ed.),听State Correspondence in the Ancient World: From New Kingdom Egypt to the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 32-64.
Weeden, Mark (2014)听. In: Gordin, Shai, (ed.),听Visualizing Knowledge and Creating Meaning in Ancient Writing Systems. Berlin: PeWe-Verlag, pp 81-100.
Peker, Hasan and Weeden, Mark (2014)听. In: Marchetti, Nicol貌, (ed.),听Karkemish An Ancient Capital on the Euphrates. Bologna: Ante Quem, pp 132-136.
Weeden, Mark (2013)听. In: Mouton, Alice and Rutherford, Ian and Yakubovich, Ilya, (eds.),听Luwian Identities. Culture, Language and Religion Between Anatolia and the Aegean. Boston; Leiden: Brill, pp 73-86.
Weeden, Mark (2013)听. In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.),听Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, pp 73-98.
Weeden, Mark (2012)听. In: Devecchi, E, (ed.),听Palaeography and Scribal Practices in Syro-Palestine and Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, pp 229-251.
Weeden, Mark (2011)听. In: George, Andrew, (ed.),听Cuneiform Royal Inscriptions and Related Texts in the Sch酶yen Collection. Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press, pp 193-198.
Weeden, Mark (2011)听. In: Radner, Karen and Robson, Eleanor, (eds.),听Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 597-617.
Weeden, Mark (2010)听. In: Singer, Itamar, (ed.),听ipamati kistamati pari tumatimis. Luwian and Hittite Studies Presented to J. David Hawkins on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, pp 249-255.
Weeden, Mark (2018)听.听Journal of Near Eastern Studies, (77) 1, pp 122-125.
Weeden, Mark (2015)听.听Bibliotheca Orientalis, (71) 3-4, pp 497-500.
Weeden, Mark (2013)听.听The Expository Times, (124) 5, pp 252-253.
Weeden, Mark (2012)听.听Zeitschrift f眉r Assyriologie und vorderasiatische Arch盲ologie, (102) 2, pp 347-350.
Weeden, Mark (2012)听.听Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, (75) 3, pp 559-560.
Weeden, Mark (2012)听.听Antiquity, (86) 333, pp 924-927.
Weeden, Mark (2011)听.听Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, (74) 2, pp 312-315.

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