Dominique Charpin

Dominique Charpin (born 12 June 1954) is a French Assyriologist, professor at the Collège de France, and corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, specialized in the "Old-Babylonian" period.

Biography Born on 12 June 1954 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, Charpin was in high school when a trip to Turkey and a stay in Syria and Lebanon in the following year determined his vocation. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1971, he pursued his studies in history, and more specifically chose to study epigraphy rather than archaeology, but learned these two subjects, and began to practice them during excavations in Iraq.

He participates in excavations and studies at the Larsa site in Iraq, and the Mari sites tell Mohammed Diyab in Syria.

He is also director of the "Revue d'assyriologie", president of the Society for the Study of the Ancient Near East, co-director of the "Archives Royales de Mari" collection, deputy director of the UMR 7192 "Near East - Caucasus: languages, archaeology, cultures" (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Collège de France, École pratique des hautes études, INALCO). Honorary member of the American Oriental Society

Honours and awards Honours Knight (chevalier) of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (France) 2004 : Prix du Budget of the Institut de France

Honorary degrees 2021 : University of Chicago

Main publications Dominique Charpin's main publications, not counting the various articles and various contributions, are as follows: Archives familiales et propriété privée en Babylonie ancienne : étude des documents de « Tell Sifr », Hautes Études Orientales 12, Genève et Paris, Droz, 1980, 357 p. Documents cunéiformes de Strasbourg conservés à la Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire, in coll. with J.-M. Durand, tome I, Cahiers 4, Paris, Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1981. Le Clergé d’Ur au siècle d’Hammurabi XIXe – XVIIIe siècles av. J.C.), Hautes Études Orientales 22, Genève et Paris, Droz, 1986, 520 p. — Prix Saintour de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres 1987. Archives Épistolaires de Mari I/2, Archives Royales de Mari 26/2, Paris, Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1988, 232 p. (dir.) Marchands, diplomates et empereurs. Études sur la civilisation mésopotamienne offertes à Paul Garelli, in coll. with F. Joannès, Paris 1991. (dir.) La circulation des biens, des personnes et des idées dans le Proche-Orient ancien, Actes de la XXXVIIIe Rencontre assyriologique internationale, in coll. with F. Joannès, Paris, 1992. (dir.) Florilegium Marianum II. Recueil d’études à la mémoire de Maurice Birot, in coll. with J.-M. Durand, Mémoires de NABU 3, Paris, 1994. (dir.) Florilegium Marianum III. Recueil d’études à la mémoire de Marie-Thérèse Barrelet, in coll. with J.-M. Durand, Mémoires de NABU 4, Paris, 1997. (dir.) Mari, Ébla et les Hourrites: dix ans de travaux. Actes du colloque international (Paris, May 1993). Second part, Amurru 2, Paris, 2001. (dir.) Florilegium Marianum VI. Recueil d’études à la mémoire d’André Parrot, Mémoire de Nabu 7, Paris, 2002. Florilegium Marianum V, Mari et le Proche-Orient à l’époque amorrite, essai d'histoire politique, in coll. with N. Ziegler, Mémoires de NABU 6, Paris, SEPOA, 2003, 303 p. — Prix du Budget of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 2004. Hammu-rabi de Babylone, Paris, PUF, 2003, 312 p. Translated into Italian, 2005; in English, 2012; in German and in Russian. Histoire politique de la Mésopotamie (2002–1595), in D. Charpin, D. O. Edzard and M. Stol, Mesopotamien : Die altbabylonische Zeit, Annäherungen 4, Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 160/4, Fribourg, Academic Press et Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, 457 p. Reading and Writing in Babylon, Paris, PUF, 2008, 317 p.; Translated into Russian, 2009; English, 2011. Writing, Law, and Kingship : Essays on Old Babylonian Mesopotamia, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 2010, 181 p. Gods, Kings, and Merchants in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia, PIPOAC 2, Louvain et Paris, Peeters, 2014, 206 p. How to be an Assyriologist ?, Paris, Fayard / Collège de France, 2017. La vie méconnue des temples mésopotamiens, Docet omnia, 1, Les Belles Lettres / Collège de France, Paris, 2017. “Tu es de mon sang !” Les alliances dans le Proche-Orient ancien, Docet omnia 4, Les Belles Lettres / Collège de France, Paris, 2019. Nouvelles recherches sur les archives d'Ur d'époque paléo-babylonienne (with M. Béranger, B. Fiette, A. Jacquet & al.), Paris, Mémoires de NABU 22, 2020.