SAH Commons | Gina Konstantopoulos | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/gvkonsta/activity/ Activity feed for Gina Konstantopoulos. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:19:17 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3a02001224e44b21cf984de3a2937b27 Gina Konstantopoulos's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1908875/ Tue, 14 Jan 2025 04:07:38 -0500 0 80d1002e477050c4676d44560eb09fbc Gina Konstantopoulos's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1906620/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:48:37 -0500 0 7717cc11d2c0ad4f3674d0ea2972709c Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Gods in the Margins: Religion, Kingship, and the Fictionalized Frontier. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1761765/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 05:11:54 -0500 The place of the Cedar Forest and Dilmun within Sumerian and Akkadian texts, and as connected to kingship.

]]> 0 5520895d40a56e5936683742020958b7 Gina Konstantopoulos's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1761764/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 05:07:09 -0500 0 0f0e4726c551dddd0093bb4f5097a13a Gina Konstantopoulos deposited "Migrating Demons, Liminal Deities, and Assyria's Western Campaigns." in the group Assyriologists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1752430/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 02:24:50 -0400 Demons and monsters are inherently moveable creatures: from the late second millennium BCE onwards a number of demons and monsters migrate from their native Mesopotamian contexts, moving westward. Of course, these figures do not remain static throughout their journey, instead acquiring the characteristics of the different cultural contexts wherein…[Read more]

]]> 0 5acfc2f6af497f52ec5e9c14b030e6c9 Gina Konstantopoulos deposited "Migrating Demons, Liminal Deities, and Assyria's Western Campaigns." in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1752429/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 02:24:26 -0400 Demons and monsters are inherently moveable creatures: from the late second millennium BCE onwards a number of demons and monsters migrate from their native Mesopotamian contexts, moving westward. Of course, these figures do not remain static throughout their journey, instead acquiring the characteristics of the different cultural contexts wherein…[Read more]

]]> 0 737d0b3fc0adb10952beee7324bb3ccb Gina Konstantopoulos deposited "Migrating Demons, Liminal Deities, and Assyria's Western Campaigns." https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1752396/ Mon, 20 Sep 2021 21:11:47 -0400 Demons and monsters are inherently moveable creatures: from the late second millennium BCE onwards a number of demons and monsters migrate from their native Mesopotamian contexts, moving westward. Of course, these figures do not remain static throughout their journey, instead acquiring the characteristics of the different cultural contexts wherein…[Read more]

]]> 0 db84301d22bf86c9029fef539a41f99f Gina Konstantopoulos deposited The Many Lives of Enheduana: Identity, Authorship, and the "World's First Poet." https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1744738/ Mon, 05 Jul 2021 03:39:38 -0400 This article traces the different “lives” of Enheduana, moving from her historical origins in the late third millennium BCE to her modern reception.

]]> 0 755a791b5a36b4899708e4aa8903d32c Gina Konstantopoulos's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1720503/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 08:13:39 -0500 0 3376bc595616ea102faffa8c8d9dbec9 Gina Konstantopoulos deposited The Bitter Sea and the Waters of Death: the Sea as a Conceptual Border in Mesopotamia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718565/ Wed, 02 Dec 2020 05:46:36 -0500 The article examines the role of the seas in Sumerian and Akkadian royal inscriptions and literary texts from the third millennium BCE onwards. By tracing the presence of the sea in these texts, it becomes clear that the Upper and Lower Sea – or the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, though the former could shift geographically – could stand as…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ad7e0b9ee7a2421f752264fc0629636 Gina Konstantopoulos's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716187/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 06:31:36 -0500 0 a36562df0476f59d38fc7f3b0ba86ca3 Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Demons and exorcism in ancient Mesopotamia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716186/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 06:29:13 -0500 This essay provides an introduction to the topic of demons and the means of opposing them in ancient Mesopotamia during the early third to late first millennia BCE. Demons and witchcraft were integrated aspects of the Mesopotamian
world. They could threaten individuals, often causing illness or ill fortune, as well as target society as a whole,…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3ebb53733a273ef7b4ca70f96e25b60 Gina Konstantopoulos deposited My Men Have Become Women, and My Women Men: Gender, Identity, and Cursing in Mesopotamia https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1716184/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 06:24:11 -0500 The following essay considers the ways in which masculinity and femininity can be seen as potentially fluid, rather than rigid, categories in the ancient Near East, and furthermore understood as part of shifting nexus of power and agency – or lack thereof. Specifically gendered insults exploited the fluidity of these categories by focusing in p…[Read more]

]]> 0 4cda1690b1ae25d191768eeabfc4ffe0 Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Deities, Demons, and Monsters in Mesopotamia. in the group Assyriologists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1703770/ Fri, 31 Jul 2020 02:24:08 -0400 Overview of demons and monsters in Mesopotamia, highlighting works in the Yale Babylonian Collection.

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]]> 0 ccdcfbad8c2d2b24a4d2776649ae2256 Gina Konstantopoulos's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1703570/ Thu, 30 Jul 2020 05:41:45 -0400 0 b9e6753ad7d1b38ae6aea9018f18e17a Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Deities, Demons, and Monsters in Mesopotamia. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1703569/ Thu, 30 Jul 2020 05:28:05 -0400 Overview of demons and monsters in Mesopotamia, highlighting works in the Yale Babylonian Collection.

]]> 0 d4cd0494a1e0f80a608f08aa6b9e6afb Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Review of: Jan J. W. Lisman, Cosmogony, Theogony, and Anthropogeny in Sumerian Texts. Vol. 409 of Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2013. in the group Assyriologists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684094/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:35:27 -0400 Review of: Jan J. W. Lisman, Cosmogony, Theogony, and Anthropogeny in Sumerian Texts. Vol. 409 of Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2013. In Rosetta 18 (2015)

]]> 0 b8bc963008e2b51909506e561b31faa5 Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Review of: Jan J. W. Lisman, Cosmogony, Theogony, and Anthropogeny in Sumerian Texts. Vol. 409 of Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2013. in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684093/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:35:00 -0400 Review of: Jan J. W. Lisman, Cosmogony, Theogony, and Anthropogeny in Sumerian Texts. Vol. 409 of Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2013. In Rosetta 18 (2015)

]]> 0 361126b0d34d8155af6c58764a02ff1f Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Review of: Michael B. Hundley, Gods in Dwellings: Temples and Divine Presence in the Ancient Near East, vol. 3 in Writings from the Ancient World Supplements. Bethesda: Society for Biblical Literature Publications, 2013. in the group Assyriologists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684092/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:34:47 -0400 Review of: Michael B. Hundley, Gods in Dwellings: Temples and Divine Presence in the Ancient Near East, vol. 3 in Writings from the Ancient World Supplements. Bethesda: Society for Biblical Literature Publications, 2013. In Rosetta 20 (2017).

]]> 0 2abb16fc3eec1fcaa6da34529d016bdb Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Review of: Michael B. Hundley, Gods in Dwellings: Temples and Divine Presence in the Ancient Near East, vol. 3 in Writings from the Ancient World Supplements. Bethesda: Society for Biblical Literature Publications, 2013. in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684091/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 16:34:18 -0400 Review of: Michael B. Hundley, Gods in Dwellings: Temples and Divine Presence in the Ancient Near East, vol. 3 in Writings from the Ancient World Supplements. Bethesda: Society for Biblical Literature Publications, 2013. In Rosetta 20 (2017).

]]> 0 762ba979466f7f37f6e3224d16527570 Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Review of: Jan J. W. Lisman, Cosmogony, Theogony, and Anthropogeny in Sumerian Texts. Vol. 409 of Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2013. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684025/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 06:18:09 -0400 Review of: Jan J. W. Lisman, Cosmogony, Theogony, and Anthropogeny in Sumerian Texts. Vol. 409 of Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2013. In Rosetta 18 (2015)

]]> 0 4b4e0ba791aaffdc13d97687cb9ce933 Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Review of: Michael B. Hundley, Gods in Dwellings: Temples and Divine Presence in the Ancient Near East, vol. 3 in Writings from the Ancient World Supplements. Bethesda: Society for Biblical Literature Publications, 2013. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684024/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 06:16:24 -0400 Review of: Michael B. Hundley, Gods in Dwellings: Temples and Divine Presence in the Ancient Near East, vol. 3 in Writings from the Ancient World Supplements. Bethesda: Society for Biblical Literature Publications, 2013. In Rosetta 20 (2017).

]]> 0 9fd48f7af81466ac0d390f7fbae2bbee Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Inscribed Kassite Cylinder Seals in the Metropolitan Museum. in the group Assyriologists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682844/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:27:50 -0400 Study of inscribed Kassite cylinder seals held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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]]> 0 c4419bda5ee4415c911c82abee776b74 Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Through the Guts of a Beggar: Power, Authority, and the King in Old Babylonian Proverbs. in the group Assyriologists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682842/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:27:07 -0400 Study of Old Babylonian Sumerian proverbs that speak on authority and how those same proverbs may subtly (or not quite so subtly) rebuke the king and established institutions of power.

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]]> 0 19ee23b06c168ab634e5f201520622be Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Shifting Alignments: the Dichotomy of Benevolent and Malevolent Demons in Mesopotamia. in the group Assyriologists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682840/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:26:20 -0400 A study of the nature of the udug and lama figures as seen in Mesopotamian (primarily Old Babylonian) incantations, as well as an overview of the nature of demons in Mesopotamia.

]]> 0 0ddf2d975154a2087616b09e059b6aaf Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Shifting Alignments: the Dichotomy of Benevolent and Malevolent Demons in Mesopotamia. in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682838/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:25:50 -0400 A study of the nature of the udug and lama figures as seen in Mesopotamian (primarily Old Babylonian) incantations, as well as an overview of the nature of demons in Mesopotamia.

]]> 0 34ab366d9ae0ca2108ea194b99cbbcd2 Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Inscribed Kassite Cylinder Seals in the Metropolitan Museum. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682802/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 02:52:49 -0400 Study of inscribed Kassite cylinder seals held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

]]> 0 46516e467594f238de73a79ab16c6e2b Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Through the Guts of a Beggar: Power, Authority, and the King in Old Babylonian Proverbs. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682801/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 02:50:21 -0400 Study of Old Babylonian Sumerian proverbs that speak on authority and how those same proverbs may subtly (or not quite so subtly) rebuke the king and established institutions of power.

]]> 0 af3ed1714a87dcbc6eb330e9dd871e5b Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Shifting Alignments: the Dichotomy of Benevolent and Malevolent Demons in Mesopotamia. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682800/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 02:46:30 -0400 A study of the nature of the udug and lama figures as seen in Mesopotamian (primarily Old Babylonian) incantations, as well as an overview of the nature of demons in Mesopotamia.

]]> 0 3dbf646df1d2f8dd6d289f21a62a26b6 Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Pigs and Plaques: Considering Rm. 714 in Light of Comparative Artistic and Textual Sources in the group Assyriologists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682618/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 16:26:33 -0400 Rm. 714, a first millennium B.C.E. tablet in the collections of the British Museum, is remarkable for the fine carving of a striding pig in high relief on its obverse. Purchased by Hormuzd Rassam in Baghdad in 1877, it lacks archaeological context and must be considered in light of other textual and artistic references to pigs, the closest…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a9dbab21851e36b89a8e8ec4dbc7a54 Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Pigs and Plaques: Considering Rm. 714 in Light of Comparative Artistic and Textual Sources in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682617/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 16:26:04 -0400 Rm. 714, a first millennium B.C.E. tablet in the collections of the British Museum, is remarkable for the fine carving of a striding pig in high relief on its obverse. Purchased by Hormuzd Rassam in Baghdad in 1877, it lacks archaeological context and must be considered in light of other textual and artistic references to pigs, the closest…[Read more]

]]> 0 b10192e0a975ccf42eab148cdd1a418b Gina Konstantopoulos deposited The Disciplines of Geography: Constructing Space in the Ancient World in the group Assyriologists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682616/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 16:25:50 -0400 This article serves as introduction to a special double issue of the journal, comprised of seven articles that center on the theme of space and place in the ancient world. The essays examine the ways in which borders, frontiers, and the lands beyond them were created, defined, and maintained in the ancient world. They consider such themes within…[Read more]

]]> 0 fe7d749b3fe458312e546f5c93fede94 Gina Konstantopoulos deposited The Disciplines of Geography: Constructing Space in the Ancient World in the group Ancient Near East https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682615/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 16:25:21 -0400 This article serves as introduction to a special double issue of the journal, comprised of seven articles that center on the theme of space and place in the ancient world. The essays examine the ways in which borders, frontiers, and the lands beyond them were created, defined, and maintained in the ancient world. They consider such themes within…[Read more]

]]> 0 074e291a3d7ce75d3b33a6e6d16df04b Gina Konstantopoulos deposited Pigs and Plaques: Considering Rm. 714 in Light of Comparative Artistic and Textual Sources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682395/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 03:09:18 -0400 Rm. 714, a first millennium B.C.E. tablet in the collections of the British Museum, is remarkable for the fine carving of a striding pig in high relief on its obverse. Purchased by Hormuzd Rassam in Baghdad in 1877, it lacks archaeological context and must be considered in light of other textual and artistic references to pigs, the closest…[Read more]

]]> 0 69dfc057b251e5b7c4e4c5e215f46064 Gina Konstantopoulos deposited The Disciplines of Geography: Constructing Space in the Ancient World https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682392/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 03:03:53 -0400 This article serves as introduction to a special double issue of the journal, comprised of seven articles that center on the theme of space and place in the ancient world. The essays examine the ways in which borders, frontiers, and the lands beyond them were created, defined, and maintained in the ancient world. They consider such themes within…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8666a233a948967a0d4eb604431a3f5 Gina Konstantopoulos's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682391/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 02:53:29 -0400 0