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Liste complète des publications de Cécile Michel août 2024

Ouvrages récents (2020-2026)

• C. Michel, M. Friedrich & J. Kelder (eds), Missing Evidence in the Study of Ancient Cultures: Methodological Reflections and Case Studies on Fragmentary Sources (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 50), Berlin: De Gruyter, 292 p., forthcoming 2026.
• F. Kulakoğlu & C. Michel (dir.), Daily Life at Kültepe, ancient Kanesh, Ankara : Bilgin Kültür Sanat Yayınları Basım Vayım, forthcoming 2025.
• M. Friedrich, K. Hirschler & C. Michel (eds), Displaced, discarded, destroyed: alternative archival practices in history, dossier published in Archival Sciences special issue: includes articles 21, 23, 27, 31, 39 and the introduction 40.
• F. Kulakoğlu & C. Michel (eds.), Kültepe at the Crossroads between Disciplines. Society, Settlement and Environment from the Fourth to the First Millennium BC, Kültepe International Meetings 5, Subartu LI. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024.
• M. Betrò, M. Friedrich & C. Michel (eds), The Ancient World Revisited: Material Dimensions of Written Artefacts, Studies for Manuscript Cultures 37, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024.
• C. Gonçalves & C. Michel (eds), Interdisciplinary research on the Bronze Age Diyala. Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, 25 and 26 June, 2018, Subartu 47, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
• F. Kulakoğlu, G. Kryszat & C. Michel (eds), Cultural Exchanges and Current Researches at Kültepe and Surroundings. Kültepe, August 1-4, 2019, Kültepe International Meetings 4, Subartu 46. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
• M. Harlow, C. Michel & L. Quillien (eds.), Textiles and Gender in Antiquity From Orient to the Mediterranean, London, Bloomsbury, 2020, 368 p. 16 colour pl.
• C. Michel,  Women of Aššur and Kaneš: Texts from the Archives of Assyrian Merchants, Writings from the Ancient World 42, SBL, Atlanta, 2020, xxx+570 p.
• C. Michel and M. Friedrich (eds), Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts. From Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China, Studies for Manuscript Cultures, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, 338 p.
• C. Michel and K. Chemla (eds), Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in the Ancient Worlds, Why Sciences of the Ancient World Matter 5, Cham: Springer, 2020, VI+566 p.
• F. Kulakoğlu, C. Michel & G. Öztürk (eds), Integrative Approaches to the Archaeology and History of Kültepe-Kaneš, Kültepe, 4-7 August 2017, Kültepe International Meetings 3, Subartu XLV, Turnhout: Brepols, 2020, XX+258 p.

Articles scientifiques et chapitres d’ouvrages collectifs récents (2020-2026)

2026

• C. Michel, Identifying Missing Evidence in an Abundant Cuneiform Corpus, in C. Michel, M. Friedrich & J. Kelder (eds), Missing Evidence in the Study of Ancient Cultures: Methodological Reflections and Case Studies on Fragmentary Sources (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 50), Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 121-145.
• C. Michel, M Friedrich & J. Kelder (eds), ‘Written Artefacts, Transmitted Literature and Missing Evidence: An Introduction’, Missing Evidence in the Study of Ancient Cultures: Methodological Reflections and Case Studies on Fragmentary Sources (Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 50), Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 1-11.

2025

• C. Michel, Les reines anatoliennes dans les sources écrites paléo-assyriennes (XIXe siècle avant J.-C.), in Nicolas Delferrière Nicolas et Émeline Retournard (dir.) avec la collaboration de Vincent Serrat, De l’Orient ancien à la Gaule romaine, sans jamais perdre le fil. Recherches étoffées offertes à Catherine Breniquet, Monographies Instrumentum 81, Dremil-Lafage : Mergoil, p.
• C. Michel, Erasing signs and lines on Old Assyrian Cuneiform Clay Tablets, in Michele Cammarosano (ed.), Erasing and Rewriting in Manuscript Cultures. Studies in Manuscript Cultures 48, Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 161-190.
• X. Ouyang & C. Michel, 物以載文 兩河流域楔形文字的書寫媒介與文體＊(Writing Materials and Text Genres in Mesopotamian Cuneiform), Journal of Manuscript Studies 1 (Shangai), p. 1-24.
• C. Michel, Old Assyrian Bibliography 5 (January 2020 – December 2023), AfO 56, p. 363-384.
• M. Friedrich, K. Hirschler & C. Michel, ‘Exploring Non-Archival Trajectories of Written Artefacts: An Introduction’, Archival Science 25, 40.

2024

• C. Michel, Clothing in the Ancient Near East, in Isabelle Cartron, Marcelo Cândido da Silva & Marcelo Rede (eds), Introduction to the Material Cultures of Ancient Societies, V@demecum 3, Pessac: Ausonius Editions, p. 147-154.
• S. Olbrich, A. Beckert, C. Michel, C. Schroer, S. Ehteram, A. Schropp, P. Paetzold. Efficient Analysis and Visualization of High-Resolution Computed Tomography Data for the Exploration of Enclosed Cuneiform Tablets. ArXiv:2409.04236.
• C. Michel, C. Schroer, S. Olbrich, S. Ehteram, A. Beckert, A. Schropp, P. Pätzold, P. Wiljes, M. Bohn, R. Döhrmann, V. Pataï. AO 8295 (X-Ray Tomography 3D data of an Enveloped Clay Tablet, Louvre Museum, Paris).
• C. Breniquet & C. Michel, The Beginnings of Clothing Experiments in Near Eastern Archaeology, C. Breniquet & C. Michel, in Ulla Mannering, Marie-Louise Nosch & Anne Drewsen (eds), The Common Thread., Turnhout, Brepols, p. 71-77.
• C. Michel, Cuneiform Manuscript Culture and Gender Studies, in Eike Grossmann (ed.), Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures, Studies in Manuscript Cultures 39, Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 103-127
• C. Michel, Kültepe at the Crossroads between Disciplines: An Introduction, in F. Kulakoğlu & C. Michel (eds), Kültepe at the Crossroads of Disciplines. Society, Settlement and Environment from the Fourth to the First Millennium bc, KIM 5, Subartu LI, Turnhout, Brepols, 1-10.
• C. Michel, M. Friedrich, J. Gippert, K. Hirschler, P. Huber, D. McLaren, S. Melzer, R. Möller, M. Luisa Russo, D. Schröter & S. Thiemann, Ethical and Responsible Research at CSMC, Hamburg: CSMC. (15 April 2024)
• C. Michel, Numbers and Quantities in Editions of Economic and Administrative Cuneiform Texts from the beginning of the 2^nd millennium BCE. The Case of the Capacity System, in A. Keller & K. Chemla (eds.), Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World – Textual Criticism, Critical Editions and Translations of Scholarly Texts in History, Archimedes 69, Cham: Springer Verlag, p. 337-360.
• C. Michel, ‘There is no one to set my table’ Gender Aspects in Food and Drink Preparation, in Stefano de Martino, Elena Devecchi & Maurizio Viano (ed.), Eating and Drinking in the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the 67th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Turin, July 12–16, 2021,dubsar 33, Münster, Zaphon, p. 3-23.
• C. Michel, Practice and Profession : Everyday mathematics and their transmission in Mesopotamian and Egypt, in M. Fried (ed.), A Cultural History of Mathematics, vol. 1 Antiquity, Londres, Bloomsbury, p. 63-87.
• J. Eidem & C. Michel, Some Mesopotamian Challenges: A History Based on Tablettes Unevenly Distributed in Time and Space, J. Eidem and C. Michel, in M. Beltro, M. Friedrich & C. Michel, The Ancient World Revisited: Material Dimensions of Written Artefacts, Studies in Manuscript Cultures 37, Berlin: De Gruyter.

2023

• Ph. Abrahami, C. Breniquet, B. Lion, C. Michel & V. Muller, Pierre Villard (26 juillet 1958 – 25 janvier 2023), RA 117, p. 5-6
• C. Michel, The Protection of Goods in the Old Assyrian Period, in Lukás Pecha (ed.), Le château de mon père. Sécurité de vie, de propriété et de l’État en Mésopotamie ancienne, Pilsen, p. 99-128.
• C. Michel, Old Assyrian Legal Cases, in S. Démare-Lafont & D. Fleming (éd.), Judicial Decisions in Mesopotamia, Writings from the Ancient World 43. Atlanta: SBL Press, 223-296.
• C. Michel, Ecrire sur argile. La matérialité des textes cunéiformes, in X. Faivre (ed.), Argiles. De la physique du matériau à l’expérimentation, Actes des journées d’études du Programme Collectif « Argiles » (2018-2020), Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, p. 98-111.
• B. Lion & C. Michel, À propos de Nitocris (Hérodote I 187) : réflexions sur l’inhumation des reines en Mésopotamie au Ier millénaire, in Ph. Clancier & J. Monerie (eds), L’empreinte des empires au Proche-Orient ancien. Mélanges offerts à Francis Joannès, Etudes Mésopotamiennes 3, Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, p. 130-145.
• C. Michel, Binding Cuneiform Tablets in One Unit, in A. Bausi & M. Friedrich (eds), Tied and Bound, Studies in Manuscript Cultures 33, Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 11-37.
• C. Michel, Gendered Private Letters: The case of the Old Assyrian correspondence (ninteenth century BC), in M. Dana (ed.), La correspondance privée dans la Méditerranée antique: sociétés en miroir, Editions Ausonius, Bordeaux, p. 223-241.

2022

• C. Michel, Weighing Units and Weights in the Context of Trade Between Upper Mesopotamia and Anatolia (Nineteenth and Eighteenth Centuries BCE), in K. Chemla, A. Keller, C. Proust (eds.), Cultures of Computation and Quantification in the Ancient World, Why Sciences of the Ancient World Matter 6, Cham: Springer, 2022, p. 647-689.
• C. Michel, L’écriture confère-t-elle une forme de domination ? Les Assyriens en Anatolie au xixe siècle avant J.-C., in Jacques Bouineau & Anthony Crestini (eds), Domination et Antiquité. Aspects culturels, Paris, L’Harmattan, p. 71-100.
• B. Lion et C. Michel, Les métiers féminins dans les palais et grands domaines de Syrie et haute Mésopotamie au début du II^e millénaire av. J.-C., B. Lion et C. Michel, Journal of Cuneiform Studies 74, 2022, p. 17-33.
• M. Harlow et C. Michel, Textiles from Mesopotamia to Greece (3^rd millennium BCE – 3^rd century CE), M. Harlow and C. Michel, in R. Mattila, S. Fink, S. Ito, (eds.) Evidence Combined – Western and Eastern Sources in Dialogue, Melammu Symposia 11, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch Historische Klasse Sitzungsberichte 920, Vienna, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, p. 163-168.
• B. Lion et C. Michel, Femmes d’affaires dans la Mésopotamie du IIe millénaire avant J.-C., B. Lion & C. Michel, in G. Andreu-Lanoë et T.-L Bergerot (eds), Une aventure égyptologique. Mélanges offerts à Christine Gallois, Égypte, Afrique & Orient, numéro spécial, printemps 2022, p. 159-164.

2021

• C. Michel, Current Research on the Bronze Age Diyala: An Introduction, in C. Gonçalves & C. Michel (eds), Interdisciplinary research on the Bronze Age Diyala. Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, 25 and 26 June, 2018, Subartu 47, Turnhout: Brepols, 2021, p. 1-6.
• C. Michel, What about 3D manuscripts ? The case of the cuneiform clay tablets, in J. Quenzer (ed.), Exploring Written Artefacts. Objects, Methods, and Concepts, Studies for Manuscript Cultures 25, Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 89-113
• C. Michel, Archéologie : à la rencontre des premières femmes d’affaires, en Mésopotamie, The Conversation France, 28 septembre 2021.
• C. Michel, Calendars in Old Assyrian Sources, in D. Shibata & S. Yamada (eds.), Calendars and Festivals in Mesopotamia in the Third and Second Millennia BC, Studia Chaburensia 9, Harrassowitz Verlag, p. 77-97.
• C. Michel & F. Kulakoğlu, ‘I will Fix a Pin on your Breast’: Interdisciplinary Study on Piuns during the Old Assyrian Period, in F. Kulakoğlu, G. Kryszat & C. Michel (eds), Cultural Exchanges and Current Researches at Kültepe and Surroundings. Kültepe, August 1-4, 2019, Kültepe International Meetings 4, SUBARTU 46. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 85-130.
• F. Kulakoğlu, G. Kryszat & C. Michel, Introduction, in F. Kulakoğlu, G. Kryszat & C. Michel (eds), Cultural Exchanges and Current Researches at Kültepe and Surroundings. Kültepe, August 1-4, 2019, Kültepe International Meetings 4, SUBARTU 46. Turnhout: Brepols, 1-4.
• E. Vila, P. Abrahami; M. Albesso, A. Amane, C. Bader, R.Berthon, S. Bouzid, D.Bradley, C. Breniquet, J. Chahoud, T. Cucchi, H. Davoudi, B. De Cupere, G. Escarguel, O. Estrada, L. Gourichon, D. Helmer, W. Huangfu, J. Lesur, M. Mashkour, C.  Michel, A.  Mohaseb, J. Studer, L. Orlando, F.  Pompanon, M. Vuillien, EVOSHEEP: The Makeup of Sheep Breeds in the Ancient Near East, Antiquity, p. 1-8, Cambridge University Press, 27/1/2021.
• C.  Michel, Housewives, Weavers and Businesswomen: Assyrian Women from Assur and Kanesh, The Ancient Near East Today. Current Neaws about the Ancient Past, vol. IX, no. 6, June 2021, American Schools of Oriental Research.

2020

• C. Michel, Belts and Pins as gendered elements of clothing in Third and Second Millennia Mesopotamia, in M. Harlow, C. Michel and L. Quillien (eds), Textiles and Gender in Antiquity From Orient to the Mediterranean. Bloomsbury, p. 179-192.
• M. Harlow, C. Michel and L. Quillien,  Textiles and Gender in Antiquity: An Introduction, in M. Harlow, C. Michel and L. Quillien (eds), Textiles and Gender in Antiquity From Orient to the Mediterranean. Bloomsbury, p. 1-10.
• C. Michel, Cuneiform forgeries: A long history from antiquity to today. In: C. Michel and M. Friedrich (eds), Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts. From Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China, Studies for Manuscript Cultures, Berlin: De Gruyter,  p. 25-60.
• C. Michel & M. Friedrich, Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts: An Introduction,  in M. Friedrich and C. Michel (eds), Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts. From Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China, Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 1-22
• C. Michel, Weighing Units and Weights in the Context of Trade from Upper Mesopotamia to Anatolia (Nineteenth and Eighteenth Centuries BCE), in K. Chemla, A. Keller, C. Proust (eds.), Cultures of Quantification and Computation, Why Sciences of the Ancient World Matter 6, Cham: Springer.
• C. Michel, Computation Practices of the Assyrian merchants during the 19^th century BCE, in K. Chemla & C. Michel (eds.), Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in the Ancient Worlds, Why Sciences of the Ancient World Matter 5, Cham: Springer
• C. Michel, with contributions by Robert Middeke-Conlin and Christine Proust, A Comparative Study of Prices and Wages in Royal Inscriptions, Administrative and Mathematical Texts in the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Larsa, in K. Chemla & C. Michel (eds.), Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in the Ancient Worlds, Why Sciences of the Ancient World Matter 5, Cham: Springer.
• C. Michel & K. Chemla, Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in the Ancient Worlds: An introduction, C. Michel & K. Chemla, in C. Michel & K. Chemla (eds.), Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in the Ancient Worlds, Why Sciences of the Ancient World Matter 5, Cham: Springer,  p. 1-48.
• C. Michel,  Making Clay Envelopes in the Old Assyrian Period, in F. Kulakoğlu, C. Michel & G. Öztürk (eds.), Integrative Approaches to the Archaeology and History of Kültepe-Kanesh. Proceedings of the 3rd Kültepe International Meeting, Kültepe, 4-7 August, 2017, Turnhout: Brepols, p. 187-203
• C. Michel,  Integrative Approaches to the Archaeology and the History of Kültepe/Kaneš, in F. Kulakoğlu, C. Michel & G. Öztürk (eds.), Integrative Approaches to the Archaeology and History of Kültepe-Kanesh, Kültepe, 4-7 August, 2017, Kültepe International Meetings 3, SUBARTU XLV, Turnhout: Brepols, p. 1-6.
• C. Michel, Textile Workers in the Royal Archives of Mari (Syria, 18^th century BC), in L. Quillien, K. Sarri (eds.), Textile Workers. Skills, Labour and Status of Textile Craftspeople Between the Prehistoric Aegean and the Ancient Near East. Proceedings of the Workshop held at 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016, Oriental and European Archaeology 13, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Vienna, 2020, p. 127-138.
• C. Michel, 6 articles et cartes dans M. Sauvage (ed.), Atlas Historique du Proche-Orient ancien, Paris, Les Belles Lettres/IFPO, « Les routes du commerce assyrien en Anatolie centrale », p. 80, « Le royaume de Babylone sous Hammurabi », p. 86, « Les successeurs de Hammurabi », p. 87, « La disparition des textes  de Mésopotamie à la fin de la période paléo-babylonienne », p. 89. Et avec B. Lion : « La diffusion de l’écriture cunéiforme », p. 1, « Les principaux sites ayant livré des tablettes cunéiformes », p. 2.

Films scientifiques

• Bronze Age Textile Production. Avec V. Tubiana-Brun. Direction Scientifique Cécile Michel, Réalisation Vanessa Tubiana-Brun, CNRS – MSH Mondes, 33 minutes, France, 2021.
• Ainsi parle Taram-Kubi. Correspondances assyriennes. Avec V. Tubiana-Brun. Direction Scientifique Cécile Michel, Réalisation Vanessa Tubiana-Brun, CNRS – MSH Mondes, 46 minutes 30, vidéo 16/9, stereo, France, 2020; en trois versions: français, anglais, turc, sur les lettres de femmes assyriennes et le site archéologique de Kültepe, l’ancienne Kanesh (Anatolie centrale, Turquie). Ce film a reçu les prix suivants:
  1. Audience Favorite Film Award et Honorable Mention for the Best Archaeology Film: Arkhaios Film Festival (Chapel Hill, Philadelphia, USA)
  2. Premio ‘ArcheoVisiva’, prix du jury international pour le meilleur film: X Rassegno del documentario e della comunicazione archeologica (Licodia Eubea, Italie, 2020)
  3. Prix du meilleur film pour la recherche créative : 17e Festival international du film d’archéologie de Bordeaux (ICRONOS, 20-24/10/2020)
  4. Prix Paul Tournal : grand prix des Rencontres d’archéologie de la Narbonaise (3-7/11/2020)
  5. Prix du meilleur film d’archéologie, Festival International du Film d’Archéologie de Nyon, Suisse (24-27/03/2021)
  6. Mention spéciale du jury « Redonner la parole aux femmes », 16^ème Festival du Film d’Archéologie d’Amiens (28/03-2/04 2022).
  7. Award of the best screenplay, special mention for the Director, and special mention of the Grand prix, 11^th International Festival of Archaeological Film AGON Athens (10-16/05/2022)
  8. Award for best film at the 7th International Archaeology Film Festival in Split, Croatia (10-12/11/2022)
• Dyes and spices/Teintures et épice. Avec V. Tubiana-Brun. Film documentaire de 12 minutes en version bilingue franco-anglaise, montrant la recherche textuelle et expérimentale sur les techniques de teintures antiques.
• L’écriture cunéiforme, écrire et compter. Avec V. Tubiana-Brun. Film documentaire de 17 minutes en version française et en versions sous-titrées en anglais, allemand, espagnol et turc.

Blog, dossier thématique

• Brèves Mésopotamiennes, Blog hébergé par Pour la Sciences de 2015 à 2022, puis par CNRS Le Journal, Les Blogs. Actualité de la recherche sur le Proche-Orient ancien.
• Mesopotamian Bulletins, traduction d’une sélection d’articles de Brèves Mésopotamiennes en anglais.
• Plusieurs articles en lignes sur Décodeurs 360°, l’analyse participative.
• Ecriture cunéiforme et civilisation mésopotamienne. Dossier thématique comportant des ressources à télécharger, une bibliographie, une liste de sites internet utiles, des actualités et un lien vers un petit film documentaire (ci-dessus).

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