Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

6/1/1986 - 8/31/1988

Funding Totals

$50,000.00 (approved)
$50,000.00 (awarded)


The Royal Correspondence of Ur (1700 - 1600 B.C.)

FAIN: RL-21005-86

Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1015)
Piotr Michalowski (Project Director: August 1985 to May 1989)

To support the edition and translation of The Royal Correspondence of Ur, a collection of royal letters inscribed on clay tablets in Sumerian cuneiform script and used as school texts in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (1700-1600 B.C.).