Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1978 - 8/31/1978

Funding Totals

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


The Province of Saggaratum in the Old Babylonian Period

FAIN: FT-14023-78

Jack Sasson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1350)

To reconstruct the culture and society of the province of Saggaratum, one of 5 major provinces located in the Middle Euphrates Valley which was ruled by the kingdom of Mari until it was destroyed by Hammurabi of Babylon (c. 1780 BC).