Program

Research Programs: Collaborative Research

Period of Performance

5/1/1997 - 4/30/1999

Funding Totals

$131,500.00 (approved)
$131,500.00 (awarded)


Publication of the Petra Papyrus Scrolls

FAIN: RZ-20219-97

Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1015)
Ludwig Koenen (Project Director: September 1996 to February 2000)

To support an edition and translation of a sixth-century archive of carbonized papyrus rolls excavated at Petra, Jordan. The papyri include records of property transactions and interactions between families and the church.