Dr George Heath-Whyte

BA (University of Cambridge), MSt (University of Oxford), PhD (University of Cambridge)

I studied Assyriology and Mesopotamian Archaeology at Cambridge as an undergraduate before coming to Oxford for an MSt in Assyriology. I then returned to Cambridge for my PhD, writing on the ways the Assyrians and Babylonians conceptualised one of their gods – Marduk – the patron deity of the city of Babylon. After completing my PhD and before joining Christ Church, I worked as a Research Associate at Tyndale House, Cambridge, investigating the names of people found in cuneiform tablets from the ancient city of Ugarit.

My interests lie in the social, religious, and literary history of ancient Assyria and Babylonia, but also of the broader ancient Near East. My current project focuses on the structure and style of Babylonian narrative poetry.

"Patterns of Life in the Babylonian Long Sixth Century BC: A Study of Dated Legal Tablets from Private Archives," Archiv für Orientforschung 55 (2022): 51-75.

"'Bēlum' and 'Marduk in Enūma eliš's Narrative, with Comparison to Standard Babylonian Anzû", Orientalia 92.2 (2023): 286—315. doi 10.2143/ORI.92.2.3292619