Program

Research Programs: Editions

Period of Performance

9/1/1976 - 8/31/1978

Funding Totals

$28,635.00 (approved)
$28,635.00 (awarded)


Mesopotamian Lamentation Liturgy

FAIN: RE-10365-76

Mark Elliot Cohen
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To construct and publish a three-volume Mesopotamian Lamentation Liturgy of the sixty-two Sumerian lamentations which, along with a series of short hymns called ersemmas, comprised the daily temple liturgy of Mesopotamia from 1900 B.C. to 100 B.C.