Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

8/1/1987 - 9/30/1988

Funding Totals

$27,500.00 (approved)
$27,500.00 (awarded)


The Sumerian-Akkadian Bilingual Incantations of Evil Demons

FAIN: RL-21115-87

Markham J. Geller
University of London (London WC1E 7HU United Kingdom)

To support a new edition and translation of Evil Demons, a group of incantations, inscribed on clay tablets in Sumerian and Akkadian script, which were used in Mesopotamian rituals from the third millennium B.C.