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    Nino Charekishvili

    Nino Charekishvili

    Professor

    Email: n.charekishvili@gipa.ge

    Docotor’s Degree in History Science, Professor. Orientalist, Assyriologyst. Seventeen years of teaching experience, including fifteen years at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA); fifteen years at the Georgian Agrarian University; one year at Ilia University. Two years of teaching experience at the University of Zurich ((UZH)-Institut für Banking und Finance). Of this, fifteen years of experience in the Department of History at the Georgian Agrarian University as an Assistant Professor and at GIPA as a Full Professor. Scientific-research experience: five years at the Iv. Javakhishvili Institute of History and seven years at the State Silk Museum. 20 years of administrative experience - in the position of the head of the Assyriology Department (the founder of the scientific society of "Assyriologists, Biblicalists and Caucasologists"). Author of more than 40 scientific papers and publications.

    Courses:

    • The History of Eastern Civilizations;
    • The History of Georgian political thought and governance;
    • The History of Georgian Statehood Development and Governance Structure;
    • Historical personalities

     

    Research and Publications:

    Published Scientific Works:

    • "The Hittite Plague" and related texts. CUNEUM – corpus of cuneiform texts #2. Tb. Academic book. acad.ge
    • Hittite funeral ritual. CUNEUM – corpus of cuneiform texts #1. Tb. Academic book. acad.ge. 2023.
    • Historical development of the state organizatinal structure of Georgia. Second Revised Edition. Tb. (Print and electronic versions). 2023.
    • Geld, Preise und Regulation heute und im driten und zweiten Jahrtausend vor unserer Zeitrechnung: Vergleich wesentlicher Funktionen von Finanzsystemen –Nino Charekishvili, Martin Janssen, Teil I-II. (Studies of the Society of Assyriologists, Bibliologists and Caucasiologists (SABC)).

     

    Published Scientific Publications:

    • VERWENDUNG VON SPEICHEL IN HETHITISCHEN RITUALEN.

    HAE - History, Archaeology, Ethnology, #XII, 2025, 316-324

    http://sciencejournals.ge/index.php/HAE/article/view/630

    • DIE PEST IM KONIGREICH DER HETHITER.

    HAE - History, Archaeology, Ethnology, #XI, 2024, 473-489.

    http://www.sciencejournals.ge/index.php/HAE/article/view/507

    • HITTITE MILITARY OATH RITUALS.

    HAE - History, Archaeology, Ethnology, #XI, 2024, 490-502.

    http://www.sciencejournals.ge/index.php/HAE/article/view/508

    • Hethitische Bestattungsregel und Parallelen zum Südkaukasus.

    AMIRANI. Journal of the International Caucasological Research Institute.  XXXVIII. Montreal-Tbilisi, 2024, 15-48

    http://caucasology.com/view_amirani.php?id=588

    http://caucasology.com/view_amirani.php?id=586

    • FUNERAL IN HITTITE AND PARALLELS WITH SOUTH CAUCASUS.

    History, Archaeology, Ethnology, #10, 2023, 380-400

    http://sciencejournals.ge/index.php/HAE/article/view/448

    • THE LAWS OF ESHNUNNA.

    History, Archaeology, Ethnology, #10, 2023, 401-415.

    http://sciencejournals.ge/index.php/HAE/article/view/449

    • CTH 450 - HITTITE FUNERARY RITUAL ŠALLIŠ WAŠTAIŠ

    History, Archaeology, Ethnology, #9, 2023, 280-305.

    http://sciencejournals.ge/index.php/HAE/article/view/365

    • SUMERIAN LEGAL DOCUMENTS

    History, Archaeology, Ethnology, #9, 2023, 268-279.

    http://sciencejournals.ge/index.php/HAE/article/view/364

    • CTH 446 – THE RITUAL OF PURIFYING THE HOUSE AND INVOKING THE DEITIES OF THE UNDERWORLD.

    History, Archaeology, Ethnology, #8, 2022, 294-316.

    http://www.sciencejournals.ge/index.php/HAE/article/view/298

    • THE LAWS OF THE UR-NAMMU

    History, Archaeology, Ethnology, #7, 2022, 441-448.

    http://www.sciencejournals.ge/index.php/HAE/article/view/240

    • POLITICAL UNITS ON THE EASTERN PERIPHERY OF THE HITTITES ACCORDING THE “ŠUPPILULIUMA-ŠATTIWAZA TREATY”

    History, Archaeology, Ethnology, #7, 2022, 419-440.

    http://www.sciencejournals.ge/index.php/HAE/article/view/239

    • Bodyguards of Hittites according to the "Instruction for the royal bodyguard (LÚ.MEŠ MEŠEDI)“.

    The Near East and Georgia XIII, 241-272, 2021

    https://iliauni.edu.ge/uploads/other/63/63653.pdf

    • HIGH AND LOW-RANKING BODYGUARDS OF HITTITES ACCORDING TO THE „INSTRUCTION FOR THE ROYAL BODYGUARD (LÚ.MEŠ MEŠEDI)“.

    History, Archaeology, Ethnology, #5, 2021, 223-236.

    http://www.sciencejournals.ge/index.php/HAE/article/view/139

    • THE HITTITE KINGS OF THE EMPIRE PERIOD AND IŠUWA.

    History, Archaeology, Ethnology, #5, 2021, 208-222.

    http://www.sciencejournals.ge/index.php/HAE/article/view/138

    • FOR THE LOCATION OF PITTEYARIGA.

    History, Archaeology, Ethnology, #4, 2020, 177-188.

    http://sciencejournals.ge/index.php/HAE/article/view/76

    • THE UNIVERSE AND THE UNDERWORLD OF THE HITTITES AND PARALLELS WITH THE ANCIENT GEORGIAN BELIEF-CONCEPTIONS.

    History, Archaeology, Ethnology, #4, 2020, 159-176.

    http://sciencejournals.ge/index.php/HAE/article/view/75

    • Hethitische Vorstellungen über die Welt und der Unterwelt und Parallelen zu früheren georgischen Weltanschauungen.

    AMIRANI – Journal of the International Caucasological Research Institute, XXXIII, Montreal-Tbilisi, 28–114.

    http://caucasology.com/view_amirani.php?id=504

    • POLITICAL UNIFICATION OF THE EAST PERIPHERYES OF HITTITES – FOR SEARCHING OF ISMIRIKA.

    History, Archaeology, Ethnology, #3, 2020, 144–154.

    http://sciencejournals.ge/index.php/HAE/article/view/37

    https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=902594

    • Ismirika – Hittites Political Union of Eastern Periphery.

    AMIRANI – Journal of the International Caucasological Research Institute, XXXII, Montreal-Tbilisi,108–129.

    http://caucasology.com/view_amirani.php?id=393

     

    Projects:

    • CUNEUM - Corpus of Cuneiform Texts. “The Hittite Plague” and Related Hittite Texts. #2. Academic Book. Society of Assyriologists, Biblical Scholars and Caucasologists (SABC). 2024
    • CUNEUM - Corpus of Cuneiform Texts. “Hittite Funeral Ritual.” #1. Academic Book. Society of Assyriologists, Biblical Scholars and Caucasologists (SABC). 2023
    • "Corpus of Ancient Near Eastern (3rd-1st Millennium BC) Law Texts." Main Staff. Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia, competition for state scientific grants for fundamental research. 2019-2021
    • “The Peoples of the Iranian Plateau According to Cuneiform Sources.” Consultant. Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia, competition for financing doctoral educational programs with a grant. 2019-2021
    • Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology. „Ancient Near East and Georgia“. Enciclopedy. 2007-2010

     

    Research interests:

    History of the Ancient East: Politics, Economy, Laws, Religion, Rituals, Life.