Jürgen Bear

Jürgen Bär (* before 1989) is a German archaeologist from the Near East .

First he completed a degree in Prehistory and Early History , Classical Archeology and Ancient History at the University of Mainz , then from 1989 to 1994 he continued his studies in the subjects of Near Eastern Archeology , Ancient Oriental Philology and Classical Archeology, initially at the University of Frankfurt and later of the University of Saarbrücken . In 1998 he received his doctorate in Near Eastern Archeology at the University of Halle and then worked on the Assur project of the German Orient Society and the Middle Eastern Museum in Berlin . Since 1999 he has been working with interruptions at the University of Heidelberg , where he completed his habilitation in 2010 and works as a private lecturer .

In the context of archeology, Bär deals with the iconography of ancient oriental deities, the material foundations of ancient empires, war and warfare in the ancient Orient, ruling dynasties of the Late Bronze Age and the historical and architectural development of the city of Ur , as well as other topics on cultures on the Euphrates and Tigris.

Publications

• Early civilizations on the Euphrates and Tigris. Theiss, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-8062-2139-8
• Anthropomorphic deities in Assyrian and Babylonian art of the 1st millennium BC An iconographic-typological analysis. Heidelberg 2007. - not yet in print
• The older Ishtar temple in Assur. Stratigraphy, architecture and finds of an ancient oriental sanctuary from the second half of the 3rd millennium to the middle of the 2nd millennium BC Chr. Sdv, Saarbrücken 2003, ISBN 3-930843-81-1
• The Assyrian tribute and its representation. An investigation into imperial ideology in the Neo-Assyrian Empire. ISBN 3-7887-1572-3

Web links

• Page at Heidelberg University