Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Description of research and teaching
Dr. Tero Alstola is a scholar of Near Eastern cultures and languages interested in studying ancient history with digital tools. His dissertation focused on migration and immigrants in Babylonian society in the first millennium BCE. Afterwards, he has worked in a multidisciplinary research team that developed and applied language technological methods and network analysis to the study of Akkadian cuneiform texts. His current project investigates the relationships between the Babylonian and Persian empires and the rural population, focusing on the ways the empires tried to govern the countryside and the responses of the rural population to these attempts.
Fields of Science
- 615 History and Archaeology
- Assyriology
- 6121 Languages
- Language technology
- 614 Theology
- Old Testament Studies
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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 33 p. (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 6 p. (Suomen eksegeettisen seuran julkaisuja; no. 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 › Scientific › peer-review
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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 7 p. (Suomen eksegeettisen seuran julkaisuja; no. 119).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review
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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., Autere, K., Debourse, C. H. I., Kailamäki, U., Kautonen, S. K., Spunaugle, A. & Tambs, L.
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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Empire and Village: Imperial Control Strategies and Local Responses in the Babylonian Countryside
01/12/2020 → 30/11/2023
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., Autere, K., Giessler, J., Debourse, C. H. I., Tambs, L. & Valk, J.
01/01/2018 → 31/12/2025
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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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
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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
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ANEE lexical portal of Akkadian: fastText
Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Sahala, A. (Creator), Alstola, T. (Creator), Hardwick, S. (Creator), Jauhiainen, T. (Creator), Linden, K. (Creator) & Svärd, S. (Creator), Helsingin yliopisto, 2021
http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2021060103
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ANEE lexical portal of Akkadian: PMI
Sahala, A. (Creator), Jauhiainen, H. (Creator), Alstola, T. (Creator), Hardwick, S. (Creator), Jauhiainen, T. (Creator), Linden, K. (Creator) & Svärd, S. (Creator), Helsingin yliopisto, 2021
http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2021060101
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Activities
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Academy Club of Young Academy Finland
Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter)
26 Jan 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Talks
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Migration Workshop (Thematic Session)
Jason M Silverman (Chair of organizing committee), Melanie Wasmuth (Member of organizing committee), Jutta Jokiranta (Attendee), Joanna Töyräänvuori (Attendee), Adrianne Spunaugle (Attendee), Rotem Avneri Meir (Attendee), Raz Kletter (Attendee), Caroline Wallis (Attendee), Daniel Smith-Christopher (Attendee), Casey Strine (Attendee), Tero Alstola (Attendee), Diana Edelman (Attendee), Denise Demetriou (Attendee), Jan Gerrit Dercksen (Attendee), Laurie Pearce (Attendee) & Carly Crouch (Attendee)
26 Oct 2021 → 29 Oct 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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ANEE Annual Meeting 2020
Tero Alstola (Poster Presentation)
18 Aug 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Recent Developments in Digital Assyriology
Heidi Jauhiainen (Speaker: Presenter) & Tero Alstola (Speaker: Presenter)
27 Aug 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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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
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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