Dr Annick Payne

Annick Payne is associate professor of Anatolian Studies at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, and P.I. of the ERC project ‘Communication in Ancient Anatolia’. She studied Classics and Ancient Near Eastern languages at the University of London, gained her PhD at the Free University of Berlin and has since held positions at the Universities of Basel and Bern. She is currently in Oxford as a visiting scholar at Wolfson's Ancient World Research Cluster. Within the ERC project, she is working on Lydian inscriptions, and is preparing the Lydian material of the Buckler archive at CSAD for publication. 

Her primary focus for many years has been on writing systems, especially the Anatolian hieroglyphic script. She is pursuing interdisciplinary work with the neuro-sciences on processes involved in reading and writing through joint teaching courses, events and experiments. Her books include Lords of Asia Minor. An Introduction to the Lydians' (Harrassowitz 2016); 'Hieroglpyhic Luwian. An Introduction with Original Texts' (Harrassowitz 2004; 2010; 2014; new edition in preparation); 'Hieroglyphic Luwian Texts in Translation' (SBL 2012); 'Schrift und Schriftlichkeit. Die anatolische Hieroglyphenschrift' (Harrassowitz 2015).