From 'LUGAL.GAL' to 'Wanax'

Kelder, Jorrit M.
Dr. Jorrit Kelder is an associate at the sub-Faculty of Near and Middle Eastern Studies of the University of Oxford (UK), and has published widely on Mycenaean political structures and on connections between the Late Bronze Age Aegean to Egypt, Anatolia and the Balkan.

Major publications include his 2010 monograph "The Kingdom of Mycenae. A Great Kingdom in the Late Bronze Age Aegean", various contributions to the 2018 volume "Beyond the Nile. Egypt and the Classical World" and "The Kingdom of Ahhiyawa: Facts, Factoids, and Probabilities" (in SMEA 4, 2018).

Waal, Willemijn J. I.
Dr. Willemijn Waal is a Lecturer in Hittitology at Leiden University (the Netherlands) and has published extensively on Hittite scribal practices, literary and oral traditions in the Ancient Near East, and on the emergence of writing in Anatolia and the Aegean world.

Her recent publications include the 2016 monograph "Hittite Diplomatics. Studies in Ancient Document Format and Record Management", and various papers such as How to read the signs. (Pot) marks and symbols in Bronze Age Anatolia and their relation to Anatolian hieroglyphs, in: Ferrara, S., Jasink, A.M. and Weingarten J. (eds.), Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas (Periploi 9), Firenze: 111-129 and "On the Phoenician Letters. The Case for an early transmission of the Greek Alphabet from an Archaeological, Epigraphic and Linguistic Perspective" (in Aegean Studies 2018).