Ilya Arkhipov
- Deputy Director, Associate Professor: Faculty of Humanities / Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
- Ilya Arkhipov has been at HSE University since 2016.
Education and Degrees
Lomonosov Moscow State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Awards and Accomplishments
Best Teacher — 2024, 2022, 2020, 2020
Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2023
Courses (2024/2025)
- History of Asian and African Civilizations (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- History of the Region of Specialization (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Texts from the Early Dynastic Period (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Archaeology of Ancient Near East (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- History of Asian and African Civilizations (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- History of the Region of Specialization (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar Ebla and northern Syria in the Early Dynastic period: language and history (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 5 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Akkadian language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Archaeology of Ancient Near East (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Culture and Art of Region of Specialization (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- History of Asian and African Civilizations (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- History of the Region of Specialization (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Religious and Philosophical Traditions of the Studied Region (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Mari, Upper Mesopotamia and Levant in the First Half II Millenium BCE: Economy, Society, Culture" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Akkadian language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Archaeology of Ancient Near East (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Archaeology of Ancient Near East (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Culture and Art of Region of Specialization (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- History of Asian and African Civilizations (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- History of Mesopotamia (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- History of the Region of Specialization (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Religious and Philosophical Traditions of the Studied Region (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Akkadian language (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Archaeology of Ancient Near East (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean and Ancient Egypt (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Culture and Art of Region of Specialization (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Historical and cultural heritage of Ancient Mesopotamia (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
- History of Asian and African Civilizations (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- History of Mesopotamia (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- History of the Region of Specialization (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Religious and Philosophical Traditions of the Studied Region (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Conferences
- 2022
Laying the groundwork for a corpus-based dictionary – the Old Babylonian Akkadian dialect (Париж). Presentation: ARCHIBAB: from lemmatization to a dictionary entry
- 2019
Gods, Kings and Capitals in the Ancient Near East. 65th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Париж). Presentation: The origins of the accounting terminology used in Mari
L’administration palatiale en Mésopotamie du Nord au début du 2e millénaire av. J.-C. (Льеж). Presentation: Ni vivant, ni mort: les différents fonds d'archives du palais de Mari au moment de sa destruction
- 2018
Исторический нарратив: прошлое, настоящее, будущее (к 2500-летию со дня рождения Геродота Галикарнасского и 2000-летию со дня смерти Тита Ливия) (Москва). Presentation: Как писать историю древней Месопотамии? От «Кембриджской истории древнего мира» (1973) к «Оксфордской истории древнего Ближнего Востока» (2019)
- 2017
Dealing with Antiquity: Past, Present & Future. 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Марбург). Presentation: Two Genitive Constructions of Old Babylonian
- 2016
9. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft "Der Palast im antiken und islamischen Orient" (Франкфурт). Presentation: Who kept records in the palace of Mari, and why?
ComptaBab-4: Economic administration of Bronze age palaces in the Near East (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Les « archives » de la salle 110 du palais de Mari
Mesopotamian temple inventories in the third and second millennia BCE: Integrating archaeological, textual, and visual sources (Мюнхен). Presentation: Zimri-Lim offers a throne to Dagan
- 2015
ComptaBab-3: Pratiques comptables au Proche-Orient ancien (IIe millénaire av. J.-C.) (Брест). Presentation: La maison des barbiers au palais de Mari
ComptaBab-2: Gestion économique et pratiques archivistiques à l’époque d’Hammu-rabi (Москва). Presentation: Les archives des salles 134 et 135 dans le palais de Mari
- 2014
ComptaBab-1: Why and how did they keep accounts? Administrative practices in Bronze Age Mesopotamia (Москва). Presentation: Comptabilité babylonienne: presentation of the project
Editorial board membership
Italy, Turkey, and Abkhazia: Outcomes of 2021 HSE IOCS Archaeological Expeditions
This year’s field season is over, and despite the difficulties caused by the pandemic, archaeologists from the Centre of Classical and Oriental Archaeology at the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies (IOCS) were able to undertake their scheduled expeditions to Italy, Turkey, and Abkhazia. The Centre is the only Russian institution that conducts regular archaeological research in the Mediterranean region—the heart of ancient civilization, where neither Soviet nor Russian classical archaeologists have ever worked before.