Research Output per year
Research Output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
Tero Alstola is a scholar of Near Eastern cultures and languages, interested in studying ancient history with digital methods. His previous research has focused on migration and immigrants in Babylonian society in the first millennium BCE. He is currently working in a project which studies the Akkadian language using computational methods from language technology. The project aims to enhance the understanding of a dead language and to develop methods which can be used to study other extinct and living languages with small text corpora.
Fields of Science
- 6121 Languages
- Language technology
- 615 History and Archaeology
- Assyriology
- 614 Theology
- Old Testament Studies
Publications
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Fear in Akkadian Texts: New Digital Perspectives on Lexical Semantics
Svärd, S., Alstola, T., Jauhiainen, H., Sahala, A. & Linden, K., 2021, The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Hsu, S-W. & Llop-Raduà, J. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 470-502 (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East; vol. 116).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Babylonialainen kronikka Nebukadnessar II:n valtakaudelta
Alstola, T., 2020, Tekstejä babylonialais- ja persialaisajan Lähi-idästä. Töyräänvuori, J. & Valkama, K. (eds.). Helsinki: Suomen eksegeettinen seura, p. 33-38 (Suomen Eksegeettisen Seuran julkaisuja; vol. 119).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Johdanto nuolenpääteksteihin
Alstola, T., 2020, Tekstejä babylonialais- ja persialaisajan Lähi-idästä. Töyräänvuori, J. & Valkama, K. (eds.). Helsinki: Suomen eksegeettinen seura, p. 29-32 4 p. (Suomen eksegeettisen seuran julkaisuja; no. 119).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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Judeans in Babylonia: A Study of Deportees in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE
Alstola, T., 2020, Leiden: Brill. (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East; vol. 109)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Kauppiasperhettä koskevia asiakirjoja Sipparista
Alstola, T., 2020, Tekstejä babylonialais- ja persialaisajan Lähi-idästä. Töyräänvuori, J. & Valkama, K. (eds.). Helsinki: Suomen eksegeettinen seura, p. 100-106 (Suomen Eksegeettisen Seuran julkaisuja; vol. 119).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
Projects
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Semantic Domains in Akkadian Texts
Linden, K., Alstola, T., Jauhiainen, H., Jauhiainen, T., Sahala, A., Svärd, S. & Zaia, S.
01/09/2016 → 31/08/2020
Project: Research project
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ANEE: Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires
Silverman, J. M., Svärd, S., Lahelma, A., Nikki, N., Töyräänvuori, J., Jokiranta, J., Laine, L., Kletter, R., Bonnie, R., Thomas, S., Holmqvist-Sipilä, E., Kouki, P., Wasmuth, M., Wallis, C., Lorenzon, M., Jauhiainen, H., Jauhiainen, T., Alstola, T., Bach, J., Fink, S., Konstantopoulos, G., Zaia, S., Sahala, A., Miettunen, P. H., Avneri Meir, R., Aissaoui, A. I., Arpe, O. P., Luukko, M. I., Kovanen, H., Linden, K., Bennett, E. R., Saari, S. & Vanderstraeten, E.
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2025
Project: Research project
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CSTT: Centre of Excellence in Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions
Nissinen, M., Aejmelaeus, A., Weissenberg von, H., Pakkala, J., Jokiranta, J., Kletter, R., Mattila, R., de Hulster, I., Silverman, J. M., Svärd, S., Valkama, K., Alstola, T., Saarelainen, K., Saari, S., Tapiola, E., Tynjä, T., Töyräänvuori, J., Perttilä, E., Kujanpää, K., Liljeström, M., Orpana, J., Pulkkinen, M., Seppänen, C., Tucker, M., Müller, R., Voitila, A., Borchardt, F., Kauhanen, T., Pajunen, M., Hakola, R., Latvus, K., Bonnie, R., Tervanotko, H., Uusimäki, E., Antin, K., Vanonen, H., Mäkipelto, V., Nommik, U., Yli-Karjanmaa, S., Penner, J., Longacre, D., Silverman, J. M., Tekoniemi, T., Dixon, H., Ito, S., Huotari, P., Keady, J., Fink, S., Konstantopoulos, G., Zaia, S., Nõmmik, A. & Laine, L.
01/01/2014 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research project
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ANEE: ANEE Team 1: Digital Humanities Approaches
Svärd, S., Linden, K., Bach, J., Jauhiainen, T., Jauhiainen, H., Sahala, A., Konstantopoulos, G., Fink, S., Zaia, S., Luukko, M. I., Bennett, E. R., Alstola, T. & Vanderstraeten, E.
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2025
Project: Research project
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Society and Religion in the Ancient Near East
Nissinen, M., Kletter, R., Mattila, R., de Hulster, I., Silverman, J. M., Svärd, S., Valkama, K., Alstola, T., Saarelainen, K., Saari, S., Tapiola, E., Tynjä, T., Töyräänvuori, J., Dixon, H. & Ito, S.
01/01/2014 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research project
Datasets
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Fear in Akkadian Texts
Svärd, S. (Creator), Alstola, T. (Creator), Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator) & Linden, K. (Creator), Zenodo, 2020
Dataset
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Aššur and His Friends: A Statistical Analysis of Neo-Assyrian Texts
Alstola, T. (Creator), Zaia, S. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator), Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Svärd, S. (Creator) & Linden, K. (Creator), Zenodo, 2019
Dataset
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Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus, Korp Version, May 2019
Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator) & Alstola, T. (Creator), Kielipankki, Jun 2019
http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2019060602
Dataset
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Prosopographical Database of Judeans in Babylonia (outside Yahudu and the Murašû Archive)
Alstola, T. (Creator), Zenodo, 2019
Dataset
Activities
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Construction of Identities and late Mesopotamian archives (after 539 BCE)
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter)
12 Mar 2020 → 13 Mar 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Public lecture ”Miten yhteiskunnat saivat alkunsa? Kulttuurimme juuret muinaisessa Lähi-idässä”
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter)
27 Feb 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Talks
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Define Definition
Tuukka Kauhanen (Participant), , Elisa Uusimäki (Participant), , Tero Alstola (Participant), , Patrik Jansson (Participant), & Gina Konstantopoulos (Participant)
11 May 2019Activity: Other activity types › Types for other activities - Other
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The king as a nodal point of Neo-Assyrian identity
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter), & Heidi Jauhiainen (Speaker: Presenter)
4 Dec 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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The Return from the Exile in the Light of Living Conditions in Babylonia
Tero Alstola (Invited speaker)
5 Jun 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Press / Media
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Babylon – synnin, paheiden ja Hammurabin kaupunki
16/01/2020
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Juudan kansa kesti Baabelin virtain varsilla
25/01/2018
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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