Elizabeth Knott is a research affiliate at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University and was a postdoctoral associate at Yale in 2020–2022 working on the digitization of the “Yale Babylonian Collection.” She is returning to Yale to conduct scholarly research on ancient seals in the collection. Her work investigates the ways in which scenes of a ritual nature were laid out on cylinder–shaped seals and how these miniature scenes would have been accessed and read by ancient audiences. She will be using the study to think about the experience of objects and ancient mesopotamian religion more broadly.
