Kristina Cassar

Kristina Cassar is a Researcher at the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, Free University of Berlin. She is affiliated with the SFB 980 'Episteme in Motion' as part of Project A01, focusing on internal streams of knowledge in cuneiform corpora. Her work also involves the DFG-Junior Research Group within the Emmy Noether-Program on Old Babylonian mythological literary works as epistemic artifacts.

• Research Interests: Cuneiform texts, Hittite and Babylonian knowledge systems, ritual practices, and ancient Anatolian cultures.
• Projects: Excavations at Oymaağaç Höyük (Turkey), studies on Hurrian and Hittite literature, and analysis of Mesopotamian administrative and religious texts.

Her research explores the configuration of knowledge in antiquity, particularly through textual analysis of ritual, legal, and literary corpora. She contributes to interdisciplinary projects like the Einstein Center Chronoi, examining temporal frameworks in ancient studies.

No specific scientific awards or grants are explicitly listed in the provided text, though her involvement in DFG-funded projects highlights institutional recognition of her work.