Rocio DARIVA

Biography

Rocio Da Riva got her PhD in Assyriology at the University of Würzburg, Germany (2002). She has been conducting research in First Millennium BCE Babylonia: editing and studying cuneiform texts in different museums and tablet collections in Europe, North America and the Middle East. As a result of her studies, she was awarded the ICREA Academia Prize in 2008 and again in 2014, as well as other mentions of excellence in research. She has published several monographs and articles on topics related to the political, economic and social history of 1st millennium Babylonia, as well as studies on temples in the Neo- and Late Babylonian period. She has also edited the unpublished corpus of the Neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions (British Museum, Berlin Museum, Yale Babylonian Collection, Louvre Museum, etc.). She has also conducted research in several European and North American institutions during stays of various lengths. Da Riva has done field work in Lebanon, and she is now the director of the archaeological excavations at Sela (Jordan).