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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1977 - 8/31/1977

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)

The Persepolis Fortification Tablet Seal Impressions

FAIN: FT-13596-77

Margaret C. Root
Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1015)

To record data (and to draw/photograph the impressions) on tablets 1-137 of the 2,087 Persepolis fortification tablets. This data will be part of a published catalogue raisonne of the seal impressions of the tablets. The seals and tablets give important information on the social history of art in the reign of Darius II (c. 590-494 B.C.).