Strahil Panayotov

assist. prof., PhD

e-mail: strahil(dot)panayotov(at)gmail(dot)com

Web Site: https://bas.academia.edu/StrahilPanayotov; http://auxiliary.ihist.bas.bg/cv_spanajotov.html

18 September 1981, Sofia

MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  1. Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic and their cuneiform Sources
  2. Historiography of Assyriology
  3. Ancient Near East – cuneiform philology and epigraphy

ACADEMIC COMPETENCIES AND CAREER

Еducation

2000-2002 – Ancient History and Egyptology (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski)

2003-2005 – Egyptology, Semitic Studies, Assyriology, Near Eastern Archaeology (Ruperto Carola Universität, Heidelberg)

2005-2006 – Assyriology and Egyptology (University of Toronto)

2006-2009 – Assyriology, Egyptology and Near Eastern Archaeology (Ruperto Carola Universität, Heidelberg)

22.10.2009 – Magister Artium in Assyriology, Egyptology and Near Eastern Archaeology (Ruperto Carola Universität, Heidelberg)

2010-2012 – PhD studies in Assyriology (Ruperto Carola Universität, Heidelberg)

2011-2012 – PhD studies and specialization in Babylonian Medicine and Magic (Freie Universität Berlin)

2013-2014 – PhD studies in Assyriology (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski)

17.03.2014 – PhD defence in Assyriology and Ancient History and Archaeology (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski)

Positions held

01.–07.2010 – teaching assistant in foreign languages and cultures, egyptology (New Bulgarian University, Sofia)

01.–07.2013 – honorary, teaching assistant in arabistic and semitology (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski)

2013-2018 – Postdoc in BabMed ERC Advanced Grant (Freie Universität Berlin)

07.–10.2018 – research assistant (Freie Universität Berlin)

11.2018 – research assistant (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

Degree and academic rank

2014 PhD (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski)

2018 – research assistant (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

Membership in academic organizations and associations

2013–2015 – The International Association for Assyriology

Membership in editorial and publishing boards

2018: Le Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes

Specializations and fellowships

05-06. 2017 Dahlem Junior Host Program, Frei Universität Berlin

2012-2010 PhD stipend (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

2009-2007 MA stipend (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

03.2012 Cuneiform Research in Turkey, Istnabul and Ankara (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and Heidelberg Graduate Academy)

08.-09. 2011 Cuneiform Research in VAM, Berlin and British Museum, London (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and Heidelberg Graduate Academy)

07.-09.2008 Excavation in Tel Amarna, Syria (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

05.2008 Travel Stipend in Turkey, Cilicia (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

Projects

2010 – 2014 Norbert Gottstein, Assyrian Cuneiform Spotlight, BASF, Ludwigshafen / Ruperto Carola University Heidelberg, Germany

2010 – 2017 Aleka Strezova, Autobiography of Petar Mateev, Bulgarian Academy of Science Sofia, Bulgaria

2011 – 2018 Irving Finkel, Cuneiform Texts and Amulets, Department Middle East, British Museum London, United Kingdom

2012 – 2018 Henry Stadhouders, Mesopotamian Ritual Texts Egalkurra, Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands

2013 – 2020 Markham J. Geller, Babylonian Magic and Medicine, University College London, United Kingdon and Annie Attia, Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts, Babylonian Medicine, Histoire de la Mésopotamie, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, France. Submitted Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts for publication by de Gruyter.

2014 – 2018 Luděk Vacín, Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic, University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. Publication of Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic by Brill.

2014 – 2018 Ulrike Steinert, J. Cale Johnson, Eric Schmidtchen, Assur Medical Catalogue, BabMed, TOPOI, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Teaching

05-07.2016 Babylonian Magic and Medicine (Freie Universität Berlin)

01.-07.2013 Introduction into Akkadian Language (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski)

01.-07.2010 History of Cuneiform and Akkadian Language (New Bulgarian University, Sofia)

2011, 2009-2007 (Ruperto Carola Universität, Heidelberg)

Languages

modern

fluent in: Bulgarian; German; English
reads: French, Italian, Russian

ancient

uses: Akkadian, Sumerian
studied: Middle/New Egyptian, Latin, Arabic

PUBLICATIONS [OA = open access]

Books

  1. Cuneiform Spotlight of the Neo- and Middle Assyrian Signs. Dresden: Islet, 2014 [with N. Gottstein†] [OA] ISBN 978-3-9814842-2-9
  2. Tаблички с дръжка (амулетни таблички) от Месопотамия – II-I хил. пр. Хр. София: Диомира, 2016 [OA] ISBN 978-954-2977-25-4
  3. Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic: Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller. Ancient Magic and Divination 14. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018 [with L. Vacín] ISBN 978-90-04-36808-8
  4. Mesopotamian Eyes Disease Texts: The Nineveh Treatise. Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen 10. de Gruyter (submitted) [OA], 2020 [with M.J. Geller] ISBN 978-1-5015-0655-0
  5. Preprint: Die Lampe am Krankenbett. Untersuchungen zu altorientalischen Gebeten an den Lichtgott Nuska. Cuneiform Digital Library Preprints 4, 2016 [OA]

Papers

  1. Асирийска царска генеалогия (Assyrian Kings Genealogy). – Родознание – Genealogia, 3/4, 2013, 60-78. [OA]
  2. Who is the client of the namburbi tablet with handle A 114 (LKA 128) in Istanbul? – Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2013/1: 16-17 [OA]
  3. A Copper Bell to Expel Demons in Berlin. – Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2013/3: 80-87 [OA]
  4. A Ritual for a Flourishing Bordello. – Bibliotheca Orientalis, 70, 2013, 285-309
  5. A Middle Assyrian Juridical Text on a Tablet with Handle. – Archiv orientální, 2013, 81, 223-233 [Заедно с J. Llop] [OA]
  6. «Femme fatale» – Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2014/1: 35-38 [Заедно с M.J. Geller] [OA]
  7. Some Notes on Böck’s Review of BAM 7 and on Böck 2014. – Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2014/1: 43-49 [OA]
  8. A Peculiar Late Babylonian Recipe for Fumigation Against Epilepsy – The Recipes Project – Food, Magic, Science, and Medicine, 2014 [OA]
  9. Update to Aššur-etel-ilāni-mukīn-apli’s inscription on tablet with handle. – Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires, 2014/2: 84-86 [OA]
  10. Нови извори за живота на петър Матеев (Матюсън и Джордж Смит). In: Tрети международен конгрес по българистика, 23–26 май 2013 г. София: Унив. Издателство “Св. Климент Охридски”: 2014, с. 23-39 [OA]
  11. George Smith’s Identification of Karkemish: From the Account of his Assistant Mathewson. – In: Karkemish: An Ancient Capital on the Euphrates, ed. N. Marchetti. OrientLab 2. Bologna: AnteQuem, 2014, pp. 44-51 [OA]
  12. New Light on George Smith’s Purchase of the Egibi Archive in 1876 from the Nachlass Mathewson. – In: Melammu: The Ancient World in an Age of Globalization, ed. M. J. Geller. Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge 7. Berlin: Edition Open Access, 2014 pp. 191-215 [Заедно с C. Wunsch] [OA]
  13. Paleographical notes on KH 13 O 1178, appendix in G. Marchesi, A Bilingual Literary Text from Karkemish Featuring Marduk (with contributions by W. R. Mayer and S. V. Panayotov) (Tab. XXXII-XXXIV). – Orientalia Nova Series, 83, 2014, 330-340 [OA]
  14. An administrative tablet from Puzriš-Dagān in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. – Cuneiform Digital Library Notes, 2015/2 [Заедно с K. Kissiov] [OA]
  15. The tablet of the Middle Assyrian ‘coronation’ ritual: the placement of VAT 10113 and the displacement of VAT 9978. – Cuneiform Digital Library Notes, 2015/7 [OA]
  16. The Gottstein System Implemented on a Digital Middle and Neo-Assyrian Palaeography. – Cuneiform Digital Library Notes, 2015/17 [OA]
  17. On ‘Firing Holes’ and Cuneiform Stylus. – Cuneiform Digital Library Notes, 2016/1 [OA]
  18. Commentary (BRM 4 24) to Iqqur īpuš, série génerale B, Cuneiform Commentaries Project 3.8.1.B, 2016 [Заедно с E. Jiménez] [OA]
  19. Hearing and Seeing Ghosts in Mesopotamian Magical Medicine. – In: Meditation and Healing. The Institute of Mind Humanities, 2016, pp. 49-64 (in Korean) [OA]
  20. Fragments of the Nineveh Medical Composition IGI join UGU. – Le Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes, 27, 2016, 59-67 [OA]
  21. Addenda and Corrigenda to ‘Fragments of the Nineveh Medical Composition IGI join UGU, JMC 27. – Le Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes, 28, 2016, 66-67 [OA]
  22. A Dedication to Ištar from Arbela on an ‘amulet-shaped’ tablet. – Cuneiform Digital Library Notes, 2017/1 [Заедно с V. Alt, A. Borikova, M. Klein, S. Quaijtaal, and C. Richter] [OA]
  23. How to cure a ‘headache’ in a Mesopotamian way? The Recipes Project – Food, Magic, Science, and Medicine, 2017 [OA]
  24. The Second Seal of Kabti-ilī-Marduk/Suhaya on a New Egibi Land Sale Contract. – In: From the Four Corners of the Earth. Studies in Iconography and Cultures of the Ancient Near East in Honour of F.A.M. Wiggermann, ed- D. Kertai and O. Nieuwenhuyse. Alter Orient und Altes Testament 441. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2017, pp. 153-163
  25. Mesopotamian Ghosts in a Modern Disguise. In Volume in Honour of Professor Peter Delev, ed. H. Popov and J. Tzvetkova. Sofia: St. Kliment Ochridski Press, 2017, pp. 29-36 [OA]
  26. Eye Metaphors, Analogies and Similes within Mesopotamian Magico-Medical Texts. – In: The Comparable Body. Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine, ed. J.Z. Wee. Studies in Ancient Medicine 49. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2017, pp. 204-246 [OA]
  27. Клинописните таблички от Котел. – In: В А. Стрезова и С. Панайотов, Петър Матеев. Автобиография, живот, спомени, дейност. София: Българска академия на науките. Проф. Марин Дринов, 2017, с. 317-326 [OA]
  28. Er darf keine Zwiebeln essen, (sonst) wird ihn ein Skorpion stechen Mesopotamischer magischer Kalender auf „Amulett-Tafeln“. – In: Texte, Medien, Kontexte, ed. J.E. Müller, C. Nouledo, and H. Stiemer. Münster: Nodus, 2018, S. 33-48
  29. Magico-Medical Plants and Incantations on Assyrian House Amulets. – In: Sources of Evil. Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore, ed. G. Van Buylaere, M. Luukko, D. Schwemer and A. Mertens-Wagschal. Ancient Magic and Divination 15. Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2018, pp. 192-222 [OA]
  30. Notes on the Assur Medical Catalogue with Comparison to the Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia. – In: Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues: Medicine, Magic and Divination, ed. U. Steinert. Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen 9. de Gruyter, 2018, pp. 88-118 [OA]
  31. The Assur Medical Catalogue. – In: Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues: Medicine, Magic and Divination, ed. U. Steinert. Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen 9. de Gruyter, 2018, pp. 207-217 [. Заедно с M.J. Geller, J.C. Johnson, E. Schmidtchen, U. Steinert] [OA]
  32. Bibliography of Markham J. Geller. – In: Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic: Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller, ed. S.V. Panayotov and L. Vacín. Ancient Magic and Divination 14. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018, pp. xvii-xxxi [Заедно с L. Vacín]
  33. Preface. – In: Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic: Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller, ed. S.V. Panayotov and L. Vacín. Ancient Magic and Divination 14. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018, pp. xi-xv [Заедно с L. Vacín]
  34. From Awe to Audacity, Stratagems for Approaching Authorities Successfully: The Istanbul Egalkura Tablet A 373. – In: Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic: Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller, ed. S.V. Panayotov and L. Vacín. Ancient Magic and Divination 14. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018, pp. 623-697.
  35. Magic and Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia — A New Collection of Translations (Review article of JoAnn Scurlock, Sourcebook for Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine). – Journal of the American Oriental Society, 138.3, 2018, 567-573.

Academic reviews

  1. Loretz, O. Hippologia Ugaritica … Mit einem Beitrag von M. Stol über Pferde, Pferdekrankheiten und Pferdemedizin in altbabylonischer Zeit. – Bibliotheca Orientalis 72, 2015, 483-489 [OA]
  2. Walter Farber. Lamaštu: An Edition of the Canonical Series of Lamaštu. – Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 78, 2015, 599-600 [OA]

Compiling and editing

  1. Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic: Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller. Ancient Magic and Divination 14. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2018 [with L. Vacín] ISBN 978-90-04-36808-8

PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC FORUMS

  1. Altorientalische Tafeln mit Aufsatz, sog. Amuletttafeln. – Doktorandenforum Kultur der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes in Weimar. Weimar, 29. Apr. 2011
  2. Tablets with Projection, tablets in “amulet shape”. 57th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East. Rome, 1. 4-8. Jul. 2011 [Poster]
  3. Form-Kontext und Fund-Kontext am Beispiel einiger altorientalischer Tontafeln mit Hemerologien. – Forschungskolloquium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes in Zusammenarbeit mit der Professur für Medienwissenschaft der Universität Bayreuth. Bayreuth, 08. Oct. 2011
  4. Клинописните таблици от Котел и пътуването на котленеца Петър Матеев в Близкия Изток през 1876 г. Sofia University. Department of History and Archaeology, 30.06.2012
  5. Ритуал за успех на кръчмата в Двуречието от I-во хилядолетие пр. Хр. Sofia University. Department of Arabic and Semitic Studies, 09.11.2012
  6. Нови извори за живота на Петър Матеев, (II част), Матюсън и Джордж Смит. Sofia University. Third International Congress of Bulgarian Studies, 23.05.2013
  7. New Features of Tablets with a Handle (‘Amulet-shaped Tablets’): Towards an Understanding of Their Function. Ghent University. 59th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East. 18.06.2013
  8. Divine Weapons in Mesopotamia as Analogy. Freie Universität Berlin. Fourth Dahlem Seminar for the History of Ancient Sciences. 22.10.2013
  9. Eye Disease Metaphors in Babylonian Texts. University of Chicago. The Oriental Institute’s Symposium, Body and Metaphor in Ancient Medicine. 02.05.2014
  10. Hearing and Seeing Ghosts in Babylonian Magical Medicine. Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea. Institute of Mind Humanities’ international conference, Mediation & Healing in Asian Traditions. 08.05.2014
  11. On the Textual Production of the Babylonian Medical Series on Fumigation. Tel Aviv University. International conference, Three Thousand Years of Textual Production and Dissemination in the Ancient Near East. 19.06.2014
  12. Cuneiform Spotlight of the Neo- and Middle Assyrian Signs. University of Warsaw. 60th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East. 23.07.2014
  13. Psychosomatic Problems of the Babylonian Patient. University of Warsaw. 60th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East. 23.07.2014
  14. Medico-Magical Plants and their Incantations on Tablets with Handle (‘amulet-shaped tablets’). SOAS, London. 01.12.2014
  15. The Assur Medical Catalogue – Part I: Structure and Canonization. Würzburg University. International conference, Sources of Evil. 16.04.2015
  16. Healing in Images and Text: The Sickbed Scene. University of Bern. 61st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Text and Image. 25.06.2015
  17. Introduction to Fumigation in Mesopotamia. Freie Universität Berlin. BabMed Annual Workshop 2, 2015, July 21-22. 21.07.2015
  18. What do we know about Mesopotamian surgery – and what would we like to know? Freie Universität Berlin. International conference, Practical Knowledge and Medical Practice in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures. 03.11.2015
  19. The Circulation of Medical Knowledge in the Ancient World and the Mesopotamian Therapeutic Texts Dealing with Eye Diseases – A Comparative View. Freie Universität Berlin. BabMed Seminar, Greek and Babylonian Medicine – a Comparative View. 01.12.2015
  20. Construction of Mesopotamian Medical Knowledge. Humboldt University Berlin. TOPOI D-1 Research Colloquium. 18.01.2016
  21. Current Research of Babylonian Medicine in Berlin. University of Toronto. Seminars on the Ancient Near East. 25.02.2016
  22. The Materiality of Mesopotamian Magic and Medicine. Wolfson College, Oxford. The Fifth Annual Oxford Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology (OPCA 2016). 15.04.2016
  23. Changes and Transformations in Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts. University of Innsbruck. Melammu Workshop 2: Literary Change in Mesopotamia and Beyond. 14.10.2016
  24. Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts. University of Cambridge. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. 21.11.2016
  25. The King’s Health: The Case of Esarhaddon, Between Royal Letters and Therapeutic Texts. Philipps-Universität Marburg. 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Dealing with Antiquity – Past, Present & Future. 27.07.2017
  26. The Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia and similar Compendia. Paris Diderot University. History of Science, History of Text. 25.10.2018
  27. The Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia (NME). Tagungszentrum Bonlanden-Kloster, Medizin im Altertum (Fachschaft Altertumswissenschaften des Cusanuswerks | Bischöfliche Studienförderung). 09.11.2018
  28. Book Launch of Mesopotamian Medicine and Magic: Studies in Honour of Markham J. Geller, ed. S.V. Panayotov and L. Vacín. Ancient Magic and Divination 14. Leiden–Boston. 17.12.2018
  29. The Titan Gilgamesh – between divine and human (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski). 16.05.2019
  30. The Titan Gilgamesh – between divine and human (New Bulgarian University, Sofia). 07.06.2019
  31. What is Cuneiform and how you write it? (Bulgarian Acamedy of Sciences). 20.06.2019
  32. Pros and Cons of Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts” (Collège de France, 65th Rencontre assyriologique internationale to be held in Paris). 09.07.2019

PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES

29. Mar. 2016 Bulgarian National Radio. Interview on the destruction of Palmyra, Syria (in Bulgarian)

15. May 2014 The Minjok Medicine News, Conference report on Mediation and Healing, Wonkwang University, Iksan (in Korean)

6. Nov. 2012 bTV Media Group. TV interview on the Mesopotamian Deluge Story and the cuneiform tablets in Kotel, Bulgaria (in Bulgarian)

04. Jun. 2010 UNESCO.int. ‘Bulgarian museum to display winged solar disc in exhibition of new Thracian findings’. Repot on results of an archaeological survey in Yambol region, Bulgaria

Preparation of museum collections, exhibitions and other cultural events

Publishing Cuneiform artefacts from the museums in Kotel and Plovdiv, Bulgaria.