Daniel Sánchez Muñoz

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Daniel Sánchez Muñoz


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Assyriologist focusing on Early Mesopotamia but with an international education, research covering the whole Ancient World and teaching experience. I seek to broaden my vision of the Ancient World, strength my research and teaching record and consolidate my Assyriological profile.

EDUCATION

December 2019 PhD History and Arts. Universidad de Granada (UGR)
- Dissertation title: Analysis of two terms related to music in Ancient Mesopotamia: nam-nar and nārūtu(m)
- Advisor: A. Martín Moreno (UGR)
- Examiners: C. Martínez López (UGR); C. Nocilli (UGR); R. Pruzsinszky (ALU Freiburg); M. Molina Martos (CSIC-ILC); J. Justel Vicente (UAH)
- International examining experts: U. Gabbay (HUJI); N. Ziegler (Collège de France — CNRS. UMR 7192)
- 1st PhD Assyriological Dissertation in UGR history

May 2019 Diplôme d’Université Ancient Languages: Sumerian and Akkadian Université de Strasbourg

2015 MA Archaeology. Universidad de Granada

2014 BA (Hon) History. Universidad de Granada (UGR)

2020–2021 Supplementary online Assyriological training
- Elamite: Universität Marburg
- Hittite: École de Langues Anciennes. Sorbonne Université (ELASU)
2016–2018 PhD Assyriological training in Murcia, Würzburg, and Leiden

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Assyriology: Sumero-Akkadian musical lexicon, edition of new 3rd and 2nd-millennium cuneiform texts of multiple content (royal inscriptions, adminsitrative documents, etc.), Sumerian literature and Grammar
Music Archaeology: Mesopotamian Music in close connection with other Ancient World Cultures
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Scholar Citations

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RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Gods, Temples, and Music in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Exploratiomn of their Relationships according to Sumerian Ceremonial Temple Names (for full PDF, write to daniel. sanchez …
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Gods, Temples, and Music in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Exploratiomn of their … , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • 75 Music in Festivals, Sacrifices, and Processions in Third-and Second-Millennium Mesopotamia: Insights from Three Remarkable Depictions
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    The Routledge Handbook of Music and Dance Performances in the Ancient … , 2026
    2026
  • RESEÑA DE/REVIEW OF: FELIU, Lluís. Gramàtica descriptiva de la lengua accàdia. Barcino. Monographica Orientalia, 23 Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona. Edicions, 2024.–ISBN …
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Reseña de/Review of: Feliu, Lluís. Gramàtica descriptiva de la lengua … , 2025
    2025
  • Identifying the “Hands” (and the “Ears”) of the Mesopotamian lilissu -kettledrum
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Journal of Near Eastern Studies 84 (1), 65-76 , 2025
    2025
  • Reseña de: Feliu, Lluís. Gramàtica descriptiva de la lengua accàdia. Barcino. Monographica Orientalia, 23 Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona. Edicions, 2024. – ISBN: 978-84 …
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Sefarad 85 (1) , 2025
    2025
  • Reseña de Zoa Alonso Fernández y Sarah Olsen (eds.). Imprints of Dance in Ancient Greece and Rome. Madrid: UAM Ediciones, 2024, 311 pp
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Anales de Historia del Arte 35, 465-467 , 2025
    2025
  • Alipio. Introducción a la Música. Introducción, traducción y notas de Fuensanta Garrido Domené, Madrid, Ediciones Clásicas, 2023, 140 páginas, ISBN 978-84-7882-882-1
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Myrtia 39, 279-282 , 2024
    2024
  • Músicos, canciones e instrumentos musicales de la antigua Mesopotamia en las colecciones arqueológicas españolas.
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Sinfonia Virtual, 1-28 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • The musical leadership of Dada during the Third Dynasty of Ur: a reassessment
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Egitto e Vicino Oriente, 129-138 , 2024
    2024
  • On Sargonic wooden (musical) instruments and felled trees
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires (NABU) 2024 (1), 13-14 , 2024
    2024
  • The destruction of the silver pipes from Ur: a new proposal
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 62-74 , 2023
    2023
  • A Sumerian Royal Inscription Describing The (Re) Building of a Chapel for Annunītum by King Enlil-Bāni of Isin
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Archiv orientální 91 (1), 1-17 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • Kettledrums in ancient Mesopotamia: Three lexicographical studies and the edition of a new Seleucid ritual text about the lilissu
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Akkadica 144 (2), 151-169 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • Interpreting and Staging Music in Ancient Southwest Asia and Beyond: Review Article of The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity: Archaeology and Written Sources
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Bibliotheca Orientalis 79 (1), 29-44 , 2022
    2022
  • A Middle Babylonian Cuneiform Tablet in the Public Library ‘Manuel Siurot’(La Palma del Condado, Huelva, Spain)
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Aula Orientalis: Revista de estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo 40 (1), 165-174 , 2022
    2022
  • Sounds of copper and bronze: metonymies of copper and bronze as sound objects in the Ancient World
    D Sánchez Muñoz, S Perrot, A Saura-Ziegelmeyer
    Telestes 2, 13-25 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 6
  • Encore des percussions! Observations sur /tigi/ et /adab/
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Pallas 114, 149-170 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 6
  • nam-nar/nārūtu in the Seleucid Period: revisiting an excerpt of CT 17, pl. 18 [BM 34223+]
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    BAF-Online: Proceedings of the Berner Altorientalisches Forum 4 (1), 1 , 2020
    2020
  • Análisis del término musical nam-nar en el mito Enki y Ninmaḫ
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Pérez Colodrero, C. I. and Tormo Valpuesta, C. (eds), Afinando ideas … , 2020
    2020
  • Analysis of two terms related to music in Ancient Mesopotamia: nam-nar y nārūtu(m)
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Revista de musicología 43 (1), 389-396 , 2020
    2020

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Sounds of copper and bronze: metonymies of copper and bronze as sound objects in the Ancient World
    D Sánchez Muñoz, S Perrot, A Saura-Ziegelmeyer
    Telestes 2, 13-25 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 6
  • Encore des percussions! Observations sur /tigi/ et /adab/
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Pallas 114, 149-170 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 6
  • Analysis of two terms related to music in Ancient Mesopotamia: nam-nar and nārūtu(m)
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Universidad de Granada , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 5
  • Una reflexión sobre el origen de la importancia de la música en la antigua Mesopotamia a partir de los cilindros de Gudea A y B
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    ARYS. Antigüedad: Religiones y Sociedades, 193-219 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 4
  • The south face of the Helicon: Ancient Egyptian musical elements in ancient Greek music
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Current Research in Egyptology 17, 173-185 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 3
  • e2 nam-nar-ra: A Space for Royal Musical Performances in Ancient Mesopotamia
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Musical and Choral Performance Spaces in the Ancient World. Colection … , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 2
  • Gods, Temples, and Music in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Exploratiomn of their Relationships according to Sumerian Ceremonial Temple Names (for full PDF, write to daniel. sanchez …
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Gods, Temples, and Music in Ancient Mesopotamia: An Exploratiomn of their … , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • Músicos, canciones e instrumentos musicales de la antigua Mesopotamia en las colecciones arqueológicas españolas.
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Sinfonia Virtual, 1-28 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • A Sumerian Royal Inscription Describing The (Re) Building of a Chapel for Annunītum by King Enlil-Bāni of Isin
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Archiv orientální 91 (1), 1-17 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • Kettledrums in ancient Mesopotamia: Three lexicographical studies and the edition of a new Seleucid ritual text about the lilissu
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Akkadica 144 (2), 151-169 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • 75 Music in Festivals, Sacrifices, and Processions in Third-and Second-Millennium Mesopotamia: Insights from Three Remarkable Depictions
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    The Routledge Handbook of Music and Dance Performances in the Ancient … , 2026
    2026
  • RESEÑA DE/REVIEW OF: FELIU, Lluís. Gramàtica descriptiva de la lengua accàdia. Barcino. Monographica Orientalia, 23 Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona. Edicions, 2024.–ISBN …
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Reseña de/Review of: Feliu, Lluís. Gramàtica descriptiva de la lengua … , 2025
    2025
  • Identifying the “Hands” (and the “Ears”) of the Mesopotamian lilissu -kettledrum
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Journal of Near Eastern Studies 84 (1), 65-76 , 2025
    2025
  • Reseña de: Feliu, Lluís. Gramàtica descriptiva de la lengua accàdia. Barcino. Monographica Orientalia, 23 Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona. Edicions, 2024. – ISBN: 978-84 …
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Sefarad 85 (1) , 2025
    2025
  • Reseña de Zoa Alonso Fernández y Sarah Olsen (eds.). Imprints of Dance in Ancient Greece and Rome. Madrid: UAM Ediciones, 2024, 311 pp
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Anales de Historia del Arte 35, 465-467 , 2025
    2025
  • Alipio. Introducción a la Música. Introducción, traducción y notas de Fuensanta Garrido Domené, Madrid, Ediciones Clásicas, 2023, 140 páginas, ISBN 978-84-7882-882-1
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Myrtia 39, 279-282 , 2024
    2024
  • The musical leadership of Dada during the Third Dynasty of Ur: a reassessment
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Egitto e Vicino Oriente, 129-138 , 2024
    2024
  • On Sargonic wooden (musical) instruments and felled trees
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires (NABU) 2024 (1), 13-14 , 2024
    2024
  • The destruction of the silver pipes from Ur: a new proposal
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 62-74 , 2023
    2023
  • Interpreting and Staging Music in Ancient Southwest Asia and Beyond: Review Article of The Study of Musical Performance in Antiquity: Archaeology and Written Sources
    D Sánchez Muñoz
    Bibliotheca Orientalis 79 (1), 29-44 , 2022
    2022

GRANT DETAILS

12/05/2019 Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (NINO)
- €590. NINO Incoming Mobility Grant = Study of Ur III cuneiform tablets from the Leiden Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

05/03/2019 Universität Bern. 4. Berner altorientalisches Forum (BaF) Committee
- 100 CHF. Bursary for travel expenses. Paper presentation at 4. BaF Conference

03/27/2019 Oxford University. 8th OPCA Committee
- £150. Bursary for travel expenses. Paper presentation at 8th OPCA

02/23/2018 Gobierno de España. Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
- €6832. 2017 Call of Grants for Short Research Stays for FPU Grant Holders = Funding for research stay in Leiden from 07/09/2018 to 12/20/2018

06/03/2017 Gobierno de España. Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
- €4290. Call of Grants for Short Research Stays for FPU Grant Holders = Funding for research stay in Würzburg from 09/01/2017 to 12/01/2017

05/12/2015 UGR & Caja Rural de Granada
- €1000. Award to the Excellence in the Academic Performance in my BA (Hon) studies

02/20/2014 UGR. Vicerrectorado de Estudiantes
- €240. Grant for books to the 160 best records of the 2013–2014 academic year

02/25/2013 UGR. Vicerrectorado de Estudiantes
- €240. Grant for books to the 160 best records of the 2012–2013 academic year

02/10/2012 Universidad de Granada (UGR). Vicerrectorado de Estudiantes
- €240. Grant for books to the 160 best records of the 2011–2012 academic year