Program

Preservation and Access: Iraqi Cultural Heritage Initiative

Period of Performance

7/1/2004 - 6/30/2006

Funding Totals

$99,357.00 (approved)
$99,357.00 (awarded)


The Intellectual Heritage of Ancient Mesopotamia: The Baghdad Corpus of Lexical Texts

FAIN: PI-50005-04

University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94704-5940)
Niek C. Veldhuis (Project Director: October 2003 to October 2006)

The preparation of an online catalog of 5,000 cuneiform lexical texts housed at the National Museum in Iraq. Images of the tablets, accompanied by transcriptions, will be available on a Web site at the museum and will be integrated into a larger database of cuneiform materials, the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI).