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Simo Parpola is a Finnish Assyriologist, Professor emeritus at the University of Helsinki, and Editor-in-Chief of the State Archives of Assyria (SAA) series. He served as Director of the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, and is known for his research on Assyrian language, culture, and religion, including "The Assyrian Tree of Life". Parpola collaborated with Martti Nissinen on Centre of Excellence applications and worked under Karlheinz Deller at the University of Heidelberg.
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Contemporary Assyriologist whose work contributes to the field's scholarly consensus.
Research Fellow
Parpola was a Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Director, Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
Parpola was the Director of the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project at the University of Helsinki.
Research Associate and Consultant, Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
Parpola was a Research Associate and Consultant for the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary.