Dr Ellie Bennett

Gable section from a bed tent embroidered with many different birds and flower motifs.

Embroidery with checkerboard bands of black and white squares and miniature crenellations divides this panel into eight sections, each with an eight-pointed star within a 'wheel of life' medallion.

Embroidered cushion cover showing a man riding a horse, surrounded by decorative motifs of flowers.

🧵We're excited to announce a new section of the Cambridge Digital Library for the Fitzwilliam Museum’s collection of Mediterranean embroideries.

View the full collection: https://loom.ly/BPvABM4

07.07.2025 06:05 — 👍 96    🔁 32    💬 0    📌 4

My last day of maternity leave and the forest gives me a cracking send-off. Two woodpeckers and three deer, as well as plenty of pine needles to try two batches of pine soda!

17.04.2025 12:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

9:20 ‹ Back へく 9:03 AM odh@neh.gov To: Elizabeth, Margaret & 1 more... › Information about your NEH Grant Application HT-308154 You don't often get email from odh@neh.gov. Learn why. this is important This is to inform you that NEH Grant Application HT-308154 for project "Null Results: Dealing with Failure in the Digital Humanities" has been withdrawn by the NEH. Thank you so much for applying to the NEH's Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. Unfortunately, all the programs under the Office of Digital Humanities have been cancelled. So we are unable to review your proposal and have marked it as Withdrawn by Agency in our system. I realize that writing a proposal takes a long time and I'm so sorry we can't fund your excellent work anymore. thanks, Brett Bobley Director, Office of Digital Humanities 血 口 介 囗

Dissolution of the Office of Digital Humanities is confirmed. #DigitalHumanities

10.04.2025 14:21 — 👍 202    🔁 131    💬 16    📌 38

Photo of a round clay tablet with a drawing of coiled intestines on it

In ancient Assyria, scholars wrote questions in clay about events to come, intended for divine eyes.

The god Shamash would then leave his reply in the entrails of an animal, to be read by a trained seer.

There are 300+ of these.

Only two ask Shamash to overlook that they were written by a woman.

09.04.2025 11:59 — 👍 308    🔁 68    💬 9    📌 11

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

27.03.2025 14:19 — 👍 2359    🔁 1078    💬 68    📌 219

Call For Proposals – ILiADS

The CFP for the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) 2025 is now out! This year we'll be at Bryn Mawr College, June 22-27, doing our usual thing of collaboration, innovation, and fun. We're looking forward to reading your proposals!
iliads.org/call-for-pro...

21.03.2025 13:35 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 4

Looks like in my 10-month absence I gained a lot of followers, so it's high time to introduce myself!

Hi! I'm Ellie, an Assyriologist. I research ancient Iraqi history, with special interests in: #gender #Arabia #emotions #digitalhumanities

I'm also a co-host of the pod Thin End of the Wedge!

20.03.2025 14:05 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

EGI - Epigraphy Graffiti Iconography

#Callforpapers for a new journal, Epigraphy Graffiti Iconography, and an associated conference, 3rd-5th July (hybrid and in Lisbon), on historical and contemporary graffiti.

I am looking at organising a panel or special issue, let me know if interested!

journals.ap2.pt/index.php/EG...

20.03.2025 12:42 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1

The Queens of the Arabs During the Neo-Assyrian Period By Ellie Bennett The title “Queen of the Arabs” is applied in Neo-Assyrian texts to five women from the Arabian Peninsula. These women led armies, offered tribute, and held religious roles in their communities from 73...

My book 'The Queens of the Arabs During the Neo-Assyrian Period' is now available for pre-order!
www.eisenbrauns.org/books/titles...

#queenship #Assyria #Arab #SaudiArabia #Assyriology #arabianstudies #QueensOfTheArabs

06.05.2024 13:01 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Scenario: well-known academic uploads something egregiously bad to academia.edu, but looks like a Word document, not an official publication from a peer-reviewed venue.

What do you do? Is it worth forming a rebuttal? And where would you publish the rebuttal?

Let me know your thoughts!

13.03.2024 10:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School The third Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School will take place at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Applications for the Digital Applications in Assyriology Nordic Summer School at the University of Copenhagen are open!

This is a great course for introducing digital Assyriological research (including data cleaning, GIS, Python, and networks). Deadline is 31st March.

ccrs.ku.dk/education/am...

12.03.2024 09:58 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Call for Papers information

Do you use networks or network analysis in research about the ancient Near East? Consider contributing to this exciting open access edited volume! We're interested in hearing about all research using networks: archaeological, socio-historical, or lexical! Deadline is 1st March 2024.

05.02.2024 14:12 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0