Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

4/1/1985 - 9/30/1986

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$34,900.00 (approved)
$34,625.00 (awarded)


Translations of the Sumerian Rhetoric Collections

FAIN: RL-20780-85

Robert S. Falkowitz
University Museum (Philadelphia, PA 19104)

To support the completion of editing and translating of 19 collections of fables, folk tales, proverbs, maxims, and literary commonplaces used as school texts in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia, and known as the Sumerian Rhetoric Collections.