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Dr Renate van Dijk-Coombes

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Lecturer


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??MA (Ancient Near Eastern Cultures), 肆客足球 of South Africa

BA Hons (Ancient Near Eastern Cultures), 肆客足球 of South Africa?

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Office: Arts 336

Email: vandijk-coombesr@sun.ac.za



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Areas of Specialisation

  • Ancient Western Asian and North African Cultures

  • Visual and Material culture of Ancient Western Asia and North Africa
  • ?Ancient Western Asian Mythology
  • ?Gender Issues in Ancient Western? Asia


Courses Taught in 2023

  • AKG 210 The Myths of the Ancient Mediterranean World: The Ancient Near East and Egypt

  • AKG 220 Interpretation of Material Remains: The Ancient Near East and Egypt

  • AKG 310 Social Aspects of the Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds: The Ancient Near East and Egypt
  • ?AKG 320 Verbal and Visual Expression in the Ancient World: Looking for Answers (supervision of third year students in the writing of a research project

Current Research Projects

  • Publication of Mesopotamian objects in the South African Collections


Selected Publications - Books


  • ??R. M. van Dijk-Coombes 

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2023. The Standards of Mesopotamia in the Third and Fourth Millennia BCE: An Iconographic Study. ORA (Orientalische Religionen in der Antike/Oriental Religions in Antiquity) 52. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/the-standards-of-mesopotamia-in-the-third-and-fourth-millennia-bce?



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  • R. M. van Dijk-Coombes, G.R. Kotzé and L.C. Swanepoel 

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2021. From Stone Age to Stellenbosch: Studies on the Ancient Near East in Honour of Izak (Sakkie) Cornelius. ?AT (?gypten und Altes Testament) 107. Münster: Zaphon

https://www.zaphon.de/from-stone-age-to-stellenbosch/en?





?Selected Publications - Articles and Essays



  • Resistance, Rage and Reenactment: Trauma Responses in the Sumerian Rape Narratives, in Narrating Rape: Lacunae and Shifting Perspectives in (Biblical) Literature and Popular Cultures. Ed. Claasens, J., Graybill, R. & Maier, C. London: SCM Press. (Forthcoming 2024.?)
  • Revisiting the 'kriegerischer Gott' of the Akkadian Period. Religions ?Special Issue: “Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and Religion", Religions 14/9 2023.? (1215): 1-18.
  • The Many Faces of Enheduanna's Inana: Literary Images of Inana and the Visual Culture from the Akkadian to the Old Babylonian Period, in From Stone Age to Stellenbosch: Studies on the Ancient Near East in Honour of Izak (Sakkie) Cornelius. Ed. van Dijk-Coombes, R.M., Swanepoel, L.C. and Kotzé, G.R. p.25-44. 2021.
  • Towards a New Understanding of the Curse of Eve: Female Sexual Pain in Genesis 3:16 and Other Ancient Texts. Scriptura (2020) 119/1:1-14.
  • The Seated Figure from Rāmat Rā???l and the Neo-Assyrian Throne-Chariot. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Pal?stina-Vereins 134/2:163-176, Taf. (2018) 13-14.
  • Lions and Winged Things: A Proposed Reconstruction of the Object on the Right of the Lower Register of the Mythological Side of Eannatum's Stele of the Vultures. Welt des Orients (2017) 47/2:198-215.
  • ?Cylinder Seals in the Collections of Iziko Museums of South Africa in Cape Town and the Department of Ancient Studies of Stellenbosch 肆客足球. Akroterion (2016) 61:1-23.
  • A Neo-Sumerian Clay Nail of Gudea in the Collection of the Department of Ancient Studies of Stellenbosch 肆客足球. Antiguo Oriente (2016.?) 14:53-64.

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