Kristin Kleber © privat A Consolidator Grant has been awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) to Prof. Kristin Kleber. She researches and teaches at the Institute of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Münster. Kristin Kleber is to receive around two million euros for the coming five years for a project entitled "Governance in Babylon: Negotiating the Rule of Three Empires? (GoviB). "This is excellent news for Kristin Kleber and for the University as a whole,' says Rector Prof. Johannes Wessels. "I am particularly pleased that, in awarding the Grant, the European Research Council has acknowledged her outstanding work in a comparatively small subject within the Humanities at Münster University.' Details of the project The GoviB project comprises an historical study of governance in the ancient capital of Babylon. From the late 8th century to the 4th century BCE, Babylon experienced two regime changes as well as rule by three empires: the Neo-Assyrian, the Neo-Babylonian and the Persian. What also makes this period especially interesting is the fact that the project can compare different approaches to governance. The project examines how rule was negotiated and implemented, in particular in the interplay between local elites in the capital and the king. The researchers will be able to make use of new sources, still to be explored, in the private archives of the local elites in Babylon, written in cuneiform on clay tablets. The project will produce a first edition of these texts and then evaluate them. Today, the texts reside in the "Vorderasiatisches Museum?
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