Publications

Books

Baker, H. D. 2017. Neo-Assyrian Specialists. Crafts, Offices, and Other Professional Designations. Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Vol. 4/I. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project & Finnish Foundation for Assyriological Research.

Baker, H.D. 2004. The Archive of the Nappāḫu Family. Archiv für Orientforschung Beiheft 30. Vienna: Institut für Orientalistik.

 

Edited Books

Baker, H.D. & M. Jursa (eds) 2014. Documentary Sources in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Economic History: Methodology and Practice. Oxford & Philadelphia: Oxbow Books.

Baker, H.D., K. Kaniuth & A. Otto (eds) 2012. Stories of Long Ago. Festschrift für Michael D. Roaf. AOAT 397. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.

Baker, H.D. (ed.) 2011. The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 3/II: Š–Z. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project.

Baker, H.D.,  E. Robson & G. Zólyomi (eds) 2010. Your Praise is Sweet: a Memorial Volume for Jeremy Black from Students, Colleagues and Friends. London: British Institute for the Study of Iraq.

Bryce, T., in consultation with H.D. Baker, D.T. Potts, J.N. Tubb, J.M. Webb & P. Zimansky 2009. The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia. From the Early Bronze Age to the Fall of the Persian Empire. London & New York: Routledge.

Baker, H.D. & M. Jursa (eds) 2005. Approaching the Babylonian Economy. Proceedings of the START Project Symposium Held in Vienna, 1–3 July 2004. AOAT 330 Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.

Baker, H.D. (ed.) 2001. The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 3/I: P–Ṣ. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project.

Baker, H.D. (ed.) 2000. The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 2/II: L–N. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project.

Baker, H.D. (ed.) 1999. The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 2/I: Ḫ–K. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project.

Baker, H.D., R.J. Matthews & J.N. Postgate 1993. Lost Heritage. Antiquities Stolen from Iraq’s Regional Museums, 2. London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq.

 

Journal Articles

Baker, H. D. 2023. The later phases of southern Mesopotamian urbanism: Babylonia in the second and first millennia BC. Journal of Archaeological Research 31: 147–207. (Online first publication: 1 June 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-022-09174-8). [Peer reviewed]

Baker, H.D. 2022. Reconstructing Ancient Babylon: Myth and Reality. Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies Journal 14: 15–27.

Baker, H.D. 2013. Beneath the stairs in the Rēš temple of Hellenistic Uruk. A study in cultic topography and spatial organization. Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 6: 18–42. [Peer reviewed]

Baker, H.D. 2011. The statue of Bēl in the Ninurta temple at Babylon. Archiv für Orientforschung 52 (2011 [published 2013]) 117–120.

Baker, H.D. 2010. The meaning of ṭuppi. Revue d’Assyriologie 104 (2010 [published June 2012]) 131–162.

Baker, H.D. 2009. A waste of space? Unbuilt land in the Babylonian cities of the first millennium BC. Iraq 71: 89–98.

Baker, H.D. 2008. Babylon in 484 BC: the excavated archival tablets as a source for urban history. Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 98/1: 100–116.

Baker, H.D. 2008.  Onbebouwde Grond in Babylonische Steden. Phoenix 54/3 (2008 [published 2009]) 177–192 (themed issue ‘De stad in het eerste millennium v. Chr.’) 

Baker, H.D. 2001. Degrees of freedom: slavery in first millennium BC Babylonia. World Archaeology 33/1 (themed issue: The Archaeology of Slavery, edited by P. Mitchell): 18–26. [Peer reviewed]

 

Online Publication

Baker, H.D. 2021. Babylon. In Oxford Bibliographies in Biblical Studies, edited by Christo-pher R. Matthews. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021-11-23. [Peer reviewed] DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780195393361-0291. 

 

Book Chapters

Baker, H.D. 2020. Management of Resources in Mesopotamia: the View from the First Millennium BC. In J. Mynářová and S. Alivernini (eds), Economic Complexity in the Ancient Near East. Management of Resources and Taxation (Third – Second Millennium BC). Prague: Charles University, pp. 445–456. [Peer reviewed]

Baker, H.D. 2019. Economy and Administration in Babylonia. In N. Crüsemann, M. van Ess, M. Hilgert, B. Salje, and T. Potts (eds), Uruk: First City of the Ancient World. The Getty Museum, pp. 255–261.

Baker, H.D. 2019. Building Babylon: the Anatomy of a Monumental Construction Project. In A. Amrhein, C. Fitzgerald, and E. Knott (eds), A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate. Princeton University Press.

Baker, H.D. 2017. Slavery and personhood in the Neo-Assyrian empire. In J. Bodel and W. Scheidel (eds), On Human Bondage. After Slavery and Social Death. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 15–30. [Peer reviewed]

Baker, H.D. 2016. Urban craftsmen and other specialists, their land holdings, and the Neo-Assyrian state. In J.C. Moreno García (ed.), Dynamics of Production in the Ancient Near East 1300–500 BC. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 53–73.

Baker, H.D. & Groß, M. 2015. “Doing the King’s Work”: Perceptions of Service in the Assyrian Royal Correspondence. In S. Procházka, L. Reinfandt and S. Tost (eds), Official Epistolography and the Language(s) of Power. Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Research Network Imperium & Officium. Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom. University of Vienna, 10–12 November 2010. Papyrologica Vindobonensia 8. Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 73–90. [Peer reviewed]

Baker, H.D. 2015. Family structure, household cycle and the social use of domestic space in urban Babylonia. In M. Müller (ed), Household Studies in Complex Societies. (Micro) Archaeological and Textual Approaches. OIS 10. Chicago: Oriental Institute, pp. 371–407. [Peer reviewed]

Baker, H.D. 2015. “I burnt, razed (and) destroyed those cities”: the Assyrian accounts of deliberate architectural destruction. In J.M. Mancini & K. Bresnahan (eds), Architecture and Armed Conflict: The Politics of Destruction. London & New York: Routledge, pp. 45–57.

Baker, H.D. 2015. The transmission of offices, professions and crafts within the family in the Neo-Assyrian period. In A. Archi (ed.), Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the 57th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale at Rome, 4–8 July 2011. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, pp. 587–596.

Baker, H.D. 2014. House size and household structure: quantitative data in the study of Babylonian urban living conditions. In H.D. Baker and M. Jursa (eds), Documentary Sources in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Economic History: Methodology and Practice. Oxford & Havertown, PA: Oxbow Books, pp. 7–23.

Baker, H.D. 2014. The Babylonian cities: investigating urban morphology using texts and archaeology. In N.N. May and U. Steinert (eds), The Fabric of Cities: Aspects of Urbanism, Urban Topography and Society in Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome. Leiden: Brill, pp. 171–188. [Peer reviewed]

Baker, H.D. 2014. Babylonian city walls in a historical and cross-cultural perspective. In H. Neumann, R. Dittmann, S. Paulus, G. Neumann, & A. Schuster-Brandis (eds), Krieg und Frieden im Alten Vorderasien. 52e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale / International Congress of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology, Münster, 17.-21. Juli 2006. AOAT 401. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, pp. 87–96.

Baker, H.D. 2014. Temple and city in Hellenistic Uruk: sacred space and the transformation of Late Babylonian society. In E. Frood & R. Raja (eds), Redefining the Sacred: Religious Architecture and Text in the Near East and Egypt 1000 BC – AD 300. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 183–208.

Baker, H.D. 2013. The image of the city in Hellenistic Babylonia. In E. Stavrianopoulou (ed.), Shifting Social Imaginaries in the Hellenistic Period: Narrations, Practices, and Images. Mnemosyne Supplements 363. Leiden & Boston: Brill, pp. 51–65. [Peer reviewed]

Baker, H.D. 2013. Wirtschaft und Verwaltung in Babylonien. In N. Crüsemann, M. van Ess, M. Hilgert & B. Salje (eds), Uruk – 5000 Jahre Megacity, pp. 275–281.

Baker, H.D. 2012. The Neo-Babylonian empire. In D.T. Potts (ed.), A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, 2 vols. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 914–930.

Baker, H.D. 2011. From street altar to palace: reading the built environment of urban Babylonia. In K. Radner & E. Robson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture. Oxford: OUP, pp. 533–552.

Baker, H.D. 2011. Babylonian land survey in socio-political context. In G.J. Selz & K. Wagensonner (eds), The Empirical Dimension of Ancient Near Eastern Studies / Die empirische Dimension altorientalischer Forschungen. Wiener Offene Orientalistik 6. Vienna & Berlin: LIT Verlag, pp. 293–323.

Baker, H.D. 2010. The social dimensions of Babylonian domestic architecture in the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods. In J. Curtis & S. Simpson (eds), The World of Achaemenid Persia—History, Art and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East. London: IB Tauris: 179–194 (Chapter 16).

Baker, H.D. 2007. Urban form in the first millennium BC. In G. Leick (ed.), The Babylonian World. London: Routledge, pp. 66–77.

Baker, H.D. 2005. The property portfolio of a family of builders from Hellenistic Uruk. In H.D. Baker and M. Jursa (eds), Approaching the Babylonian Economy. Proceedings of the START-Project Symposium Held in Vienna, 1–3 July 2004. AOAT 330. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, pp.  7–43.

Baker, H.D. & Jursa, M. 2005. Introduction. In H.D. Baker and M. Jursa (eds), Approaching the Babylonian Economy. Proceedings of the START-Project Symposium Held in Vienna, 1–3 July 2004. AOAT 330. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, pp. 1–6.

Baker, H.D. 2003. Record-keeping practices as revealed by the Neo-Babylonian private archival documents. In M. Brosius (ed.), Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions. Concepts of Record-keeping in the Ancient World. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. Oxford: OUP, pp. 241–263.

Baker, H.D. 2002. Approaches to Akkadian name-giving in first millennium BC Mesopotamia. In C. Wunsch (ed.), Mining the Archives. Festschrift for Christopher Walker on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. Babylonische Archive 1. Dresden: ISLET: 1–24.

Baker, H.D. & Wunsch, C. 2001. Neo-Babylonian notaries and their use of seals. In W.W. Hallo and I.J. Winter (eds), Seals and Seal Impressions. Proceedings of the XLVe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Part II. Yale University. Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press: 197–213.

Baker, H.D. 1995. Neo-Babylonian Burials Revisited. In A.R. Green and S. Campbell (eds), The Archaeology of Death in the Ancient Near East. Oxbow Monographs 51. Oxford: Oxbow Books: 209–220.

Baker, H.D. 1993. The Grinding Stones. In A. Green (ed.), The 6G Ash-Tip and its contents. British School of Archaeology in Iraq, Abu Salabikh Excavations 4. London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, pp. 163–165.

Encyclopaedia Articles & Short Contributions

Baker, H.D. 2022. Nabonidus. In E. Ziolkowski et al. (eds), Encylopaedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 20. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 525–526.

Baker, H.D. 2022. Nabopolassar. In E. Ziolkowski et al. (eds), Encylopaedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 20. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 527–528

Baker, H.D. 2020. Merodach-Baladan. In E. Ziolkowski et al. (eds), Encylopaedia of the Bible and its Reception, vol. 18. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 781–782.

Baker, H. D. 2017. Zamê. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 15/3–4: 202–203.

Baker, H.D. 2015. Uraš (toponym). Reallexikon der Assyriologie 14/5–6: 406–407.

Baker, H.D. 2014. Tiglat-pileser I. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 14/1–2: 19–21.

Baker, H.D. 2014. Tiglat-pileser II. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 14/1–2: 21.

Baker, H.D. 2014. Tiglat-pileser III. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 14/1–2: 21–24.

Baker, H.D. 2014. Trennwand (party wall). B. Im 1. Jahrtausend. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 14/1–2: 121–122

Baker, H.D. 2014. Turm. A.I. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 14/3–4: 195–196.

Baker, H.D. 2014.  Ulmaš-šākin-šumi. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 14/3–4: 310.

Baker, H.D. 2013. Testament. 1 Jt. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 13/7–8: 611–613.

Baker, H.D. 2011. c. 400 contributions to H.D. Baker (ed.), The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 3/II: Š-Z. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project.

Baker, H.D. 2011. Sippar A. II. Im 1. Jahrtausend. § 3.5. Topographische Informationen. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 12/7–8: 535–536.

Baker, H.D. 2011. Šit/dirparna. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 12/7–8: 558.

Baker, H.D. 2010. Babylonian shops. NABU 2010/88.

Baker, H.D. 2009. Correction to NABU 2008/27.’ NABU 2009/49.

Baker, H.D. 2008. Salmanassar I. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 11/7–8: 579–580.

Baker, H.D. 2008. Salmanassar II. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 11/7–8: 581.

Baker, H.D. 2008. Salmanassar III. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 11/7–8: 581–585.

Baker, H.D. 2008. Salmanassar IV. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 11/7–8: 585.

Baker, H.D. 2008. Salmanassar V. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 11/7–8: 585–587.

Baker, H.D. 2008. Šamšī-Adad II. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 11/7–8: 635–636.

Baker, H.D. 2008. Šamšī-Adad III. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 11/7–8: 636.

Baker, H.D. 2008. Šamšī-Adad IV. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 11/7–8: 636.

Baker, H.D. 2008. Šamšī-Adad V. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 11/7–8: 636–638.

Baker, H.D. 2008. Šamši-ilu. Reallexikon der Assyriologie 11/7-8: 639–640.

Baker, H.D. 2008. The layout of the ziggurat temple at Babylon. NABU 2008/27.

Baker, H.D. 2007.  Occupations (Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East). In P. Bogucki (ed.), Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World. New York: Facts on File.

Baker, H.D. 2007. Scandals and corruption (Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East). In P. Bogucki (ed.), Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World. New York: Facts on File.

Baker, H.D. 2004. Emendations to BiMes 24 19 // BRM 2 28. NABU 2004/94.

Baker, H.D. 2004. OIP 122 12: some remarks. NABU 2004/90.

Baker, H.D. 2004. Casting off the fetters: BM 41449 reconsidered. NABU 2004/89.

Baker, H.D. 2004. The “small cubit”: a note on Late Babylonian surface mensuration. NABU 2004/70.

Baker, H.D. 2002. 295 contributions to H.D. Baker (ed.), The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 3/I: P-Ṣ. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project.

Baker, H.D. 2001. c. 600 contributions to H.D. Baker (ed.), The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 2/II: L–N. Helsinki.

Baker, H.D. 2000. 350 contributions to H.D. Baker (ed.), The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 2/I: Ḫ–K. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project.

Baker, H.D. 1999. 50 contributions to K. Radner (ed.), The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, 1/II: B–G. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project.

Baker, H.D. 1998. Mesopotamia. In The Reader’s Digest Family Encyclopedia of World History.

Baker, H.D. 1998. The Development of Early Maps. In The Reader’s Digest Family Encyclopedia of World History.

Baker, H.D. 1997. text edition no. 10 in M. Weszeli and H. Baker, Eseleien II. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 87: 231–247.

Baker, H.D. 1995. Small Finds. In H.D. Baker et al., Kilise Tepe 1994. Anatolian Studies 45: 186–189.