Saana Svärd
Biographic Data
| ID | 1724028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saana Svärd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saana |
| FAMILY NAME | Svärd |
| SIGNATURE | SVÄRD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8672-1057 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kingship and Queenship in the Ancient Near Eastern Empires of the First Millennium BCE
Empires and kingship are long-standing topics of research in ancient Near Eastern studies; the study of queenship has gradually received more attention over recent decades. However, discussions of the social implications of kingship and queenship, comparisons of the gender roles, and their study across several empires remain rare. The paper at hand takes the unprecedented step of such a comparative analysis by tracing a specific detail of royal i…
Manlaharban and Aramaic in the Neo-Assyrian Oracular Queries Written by Women
Neo-Assyrian Imperial Religion Counts
This article pursues a quantitative approach to measure and compare the frequency with which Neo-Assyrian kings and queens co-occur with deities across thousands of cuneiform documents. For the large corpus of kings’ texts, we used an automated method to collect data that is digitally available in the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc). For the much smaller corpus of queens’ texts, we collected data manually. As output, we offer new b…
Sources at the end of the cuneiform era
The aim of this article is to discuss several groups of sources which are of special interest regarding the question of Mesopotamian identities after 539 bce, towards the end of the use of cuneiform writing. In this late period, several languages and scripts were in use in Mesopotamia; therefore, groups of Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek, and Sumerian texts are discussed. The scripts used are Aramaic letters, cuneiform, and the Greek alphabet. A scholar…
Aššur and His Friends
Large digital datasets of cuneiform sources lend themselves to computational analysis that can complement and improve upon traditional philological work. The present article applies social network analysis to an electronic corpus of 1,532 texts to study the god Aššur and his position in divine networks in the Neo-Assyrian period. Our results show that the performance of social network analysis can be improved by using a small window size and calc…
Third Workshop on Gender, Methodology, and the Ancient Near East
Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia
Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East
The Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held in Paris in 2009 enabled us to realize we both had a common interest: gender studies. This common interest materialized in a joint project we launched in 2012. The aims of our project were, first, to discuss some possible methodological approaches to gender within the framework of ancient Near Eastern studies; and second, to create spaces where people interested in such discussions could interact w…
Sacred Marriages
Neo-Assyrian Imperial Religion Counts
This article pursues a quantitative approach to measure and compare the frequency with which Neo-Assyrian kings and queens co-occur with deities across thousands of cuneiform documents. For the large corpus of kings’ texts, we used an automated method to collect data that is digitally available in the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc). For the much smaller corpus of queens’ texts, we collected data manually. As output, we offer new b…
Aššur and His Friends
Large digital datasets of cuneiform sources lend themselves to computational analysis that can complement and improve upon traditional philological work. The present article applies social network analysis to an electronic corpus of 1,532 texts to study the god Aššur and his position in divine networks in the Neo-Assyrian period. Our results show that the performance of social network analysis can be improved by using a small window size and calc…
Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East
The Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held in Paris in 2009 enabled us to realize we both had a common interest: gender studies. This common interest materialized in a joint project we launched in 2012. The aims of our project were, first, to discuss some possible methodological approaches to gender within the framework of ancient Near Eastern studies; and second, to create spaces where people interested in such discussions could interact w…
Sacred Marriages
Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East
The Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held in Paris in 2009 enabled us to realize we both had a common interest: gender studies. This common interest materialized in a joint project we launched in 2012. The aims of our project were, first, to discuss some possible methodological approaches to gender within the framework of ancient Near Eastern studies; and second, to create spaces where people interested in such discussions could interact w…
Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia
Aššur and His Friends
Large digital datasets of cuneiform sources lend themselves to computational analysis that can complement and improve upon traditional philological work. The present article applies social network analysis to an electronic corpus of 1,532 texts to study the god Aššur and his position in divine networks in the Neo-Assyrian period. Our results show that the performance of social network analysis can be improved by using a small window size and calc…
Third Workshop on Gender, Methodology, and the Ancient Near East
Sources at the end of the cuneiform era
The aim of this article is to discuss several groups of sources which are of special interest regarding the question of Mesopotamian identities after 539 bce, towards the end of the use of cuneiform writing. In this late period, several languages and scripts were in use in Mesopotamia; therefore, groups of Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek, and Sumerian texts are discussed. The scripts used are Aramaic letters, cuneiform, and the Greek alphabet. A scholar…
Kingship and Queenship in the Ancient Near Eastern Empires of the First Millennium BCE
Empires and kingship are long-standing topics of research in ancient Near Eastern studies; the study of queenship has gradually received more attention over recent decades. However, discussions of the social implications of kingship and queenship, comparisons of the gender roles, and their study across several empires remain rare. The paper at hand takes the unprecedented step of such a comparative analysis by tracing a specific detail of royal i…
Manlaharban and Aramaic in the Neo-Assyrian Oracular Queries Written by Women
Neo-Assyrian Imperial Religion Counts
This article pursues a quantitative approach to measure and compare the frequency with which Neo-Assyrian kings and queens co-occur with deities across thousands of cuneiform documents. For the large corpus of kings’ texts, we used an automated method to collect data that is digitally available in the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc). For the much smaller corpus of queens’ texts, we collected data manually. As output, we offer new b…
Ancient Near East History (8 works) · History (7 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (5 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Classics (2 works)