Professor of Ancient History at the University of São Paulo (USP). He earned his undergraduate degree in History from the University of São Paulo (1988), an M.A. in History from the Fluminense Federal University (1994), and subsequently a Master-2 (2000) and Ph.D. (2004) in Ancient History (Assyriology) from the Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Between 1999 and 2002, he conducted research in cuneiform epigraphy at the Louvre Museum, publishing previously unpublished documents from the site of Tell Senkereh (ancient Larsa). He pursued studies in Sumerian, Akkadian, Near Eastern archaeology, and cuneiform law at the École du Louvre and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). From 1992 to 2008, he was an associate professor at the Fluminense Federal University. Since 2011, he has been the coordinator of LAOP-USP (Laboratory for the Ancient Near East, USP). He is a Foreign Member of the French CNRS research unit HASAÉ (Histoire et Archéologie du Sud-ouest Asiatique et de lÉgypte). He has served as Visiting Professor at the Universities of Paris-Sorbonne (2019) and Bordeaux (2023), and as Resident Research Fellow at the École Française de Rome (20222023). He currently holds a level B Productivity Fellowship from CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This postdoctoral project aims at studying the phenomena of long-distance communications, identification of individuals, and fact-checking to comprehend how the interconnected societies of the Ancient Near East in the second millennium BCE identified messengers and ensured that written communications were authentic and reached the recipient without being intercepted, altered, or falsified…
This research analyzes the memory of the Babylonian past constructed by the Babylonian temples of Esagil and Ezida, between the end of the 7th century and the middle of the 2nd century BCE. In 626, the Neo-Babylonian Empire rose as the main political force in the Ancient Near East, until 539, when it was conquered by the Persian-Achaemenid Empire. In 331, Alexander the Great defeated the …
The following project is part of the research line of the Laboratório do Antigo Próximo Oriente (LAOP-USP), "Empires and local communities: powers, sociabilities and cultures (9th century BC - 1st century AD)". The research project aims to analyze a corpus of stelae from the Serapeum in Saqqara dating from the First Persian Period in Egypt (c.526-404 B.C.E.) during the reign of Darius I (…
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This project intends to analyse Nineveh and Its Remains, written by Austen Henry Layard and published in 1850, in order to understand the victorian portrayal of Ancient Assyria, by the time it was rediscoverd, as well as its interactions with certain visions of the Nineteenth Century Middle East. Therefore, this research aims to discuss the early explorer's ambition to portray Assyria in …
This research aims to study a group of cuneiform tablets from the rural village of Al-Yahudu and its neighboring settlements during the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. Partially published by Laurie Pearce and Cornelia Wunsch, these tablets record the daily life of Judean deportees after the Babylonian military expeditions into the Levant in the early 6th century BCE. These cuneiform sources ar…
the aim of the present research is to analyze comparatively the place of Court eunuchs in the Neo-Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires, through the examination of the (supposed) figures of eunuchs in the reliefs of the 'palace' of Darius I (522-486 BCE) in Persepolis (ROOT, 1979, p.78-80; KUHRT, 2007, p. 592; YAMAUCHI, 1996, p. 263) and Apadana (KUHRT, op. cit., p. 536; SCHMIDT, 1953, pl. 121-…
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The beginning of Xerxes' reign (r. 486-465 BCE) was characterized by the outbreak of revolts, from Greece to Babylonia, which were quickly contained. Babylonia was a focus of separatist movements, driven by the urban priestly elite. The temples that hosted them were therefore the most impacted institutions by the imperial repressions in 484 BCE. The aim of this doctoral thesis is to study…
In this research, I study the rural villages of Al-Yahudu, Bit-Abi-râm, Bit-Nashar and their neighboring settlements during the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. I focus on tablets from CUSAS 29 and BaAr 6, records of the daily life of Judeans and other West Semitic groups deported after the Babylonian military expeditions to the Levant on the early 6th century BCE. These tablets are full of rel…
The aim of the present research project is to analyze comparatively some figures of (presumed) court eunuchs in the Neo-Assyrian and Achaemenid monumental reliefs, through an approach that privileges notions of continuity and image performance in the near eastern tradition. Court eunuchs were essentially prepubescent castrated males that most likely served in several - and often very high…
This research project investigates the development of laments into penitential prayers during the end of the Neo-Babylonian Period to the end Late Persian Period in the province of Yehud. The historical experiences of destruction were incorporated into the literary corpus of Lamentations and of Ezra-Nehemiah by a process of trauma and memory. The biblical authors elaborated the social exp…
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