Preserving and Providing Access to the Official Inscriptions of the Kings of Assyria, 744 to 669 B.C.

Recipient: Frame, Grant (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA) in affiliation with University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA)

Goal: Online publication of the official inscriptions of the rulers of ancient Assyria, which are preserved on clay tablets and other artifacts. The project would also provide transliterations, translations, and bibliographic information.

Description: The project will make available to scholars, students and the general public user-friendly editions of the official inscriptions of the rulers of ancient Assyria from 744 to 669 BCE. These will be of interest not just to individuals specializing in ancient Mesopotamia, but also to those interested in the ancient Near East in general, Biblical studies, classical studies, religious studies, archaeology and linguistics. This period saw the formation of a great empire that stretched from the Assyrian heartland in northern Iraq to Iran in the East and Egypt in the West. Most of the inscriptions are not available in up-to-date translations, or available only with great difficulty. The volumes will include transliterations (the rendition of the ancient cuneiform signs into the Latin alphabet), translations, bibliographical information, basic textual commentary and extensive indices; the online version will be fully searchable and have links to other online resources.

Grant: 189726 / PW-50024-08,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources,   Year Awarded: 2008

Ernest Hemingway: After the Storm

Recipient: Lacy, Susan (New York, NY 10001 USA) in affiliation with Educational Broadcasting Corporation

Goal: Scripting of a 90-minute documentary film on the American author, Ernest Hemingway.

Grant: 164441 / GN-50107-03,   Division: Public Programs,   Program: Media, Humanities Projects in,   Year Awarded: 2003

Endowment to Support Library of Early Christianity

Recipient: McGonagle, David J (Washington, DC 20064 USA) in affiliation with Catholic University of America

Goal: To support endowment and equipment purchase for the development and publication of a new series of volumes of early Christian writings, with original texts and translations.

Grant: 141400 / CH-20436-98,   Division: Challenge Grants,   Program: Challenge Grants,   Year Awarded: 1998

Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature, Vol. I, ed. by Benjamin Foster

Recipient: Cohen, Mark E (Potomac, MD 20854 USA) in affiliation with CDL Press

Goal: To support the publication of volume 1 of an anthology of literature written in Akkadian, the language of ancient Assyria and Babylon.

Grant: 160972 / RP-21565-92,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Publications,   Year Awarded: 1992

Letters from Ancient Egypt, ed. by Edward Wente

Recipient: Lull, David J (Decatur, GA 30033 USA) in affiliation with Society of Biblical Literature

Goal: To support the publication of a volume of letters written by people in all levels of ancient Egyptian society in the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms.

Grant: 160871 / RP-21298-90,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Publications,   Year Awarded: 1990

Greek Drama in Context

Recipient: Loftis, John E (Greeley, CO 80631-0000 USA) in affiliation with University of Northern Colorado (Greeley, CO 80639 USA)

Goal: To support a four-week institute on classical Greek drama for 36 Colorado high school English and social studies teachers.

Grant: 143304 / ES-21772-89,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for School Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1989

Computer Accessible Scriptural Texts and Tools (CASTT)

Recipient: Kraft, Robert (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304 USA) in affiliation with University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA)

Goal: To support completion of the Computer Accessible Tools for Septuagint Studies (CATSS), a computerized database of ancient Greek and Hebrew scriptures.

Grant: 161279 / RT-21083-89,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Tools,   Year Awarded: 1989

A Scientific-Critical Edition of RaBaD's Commentary of SIFRA

Recipient: Shoshana, Abraham (Wickliffe, OH 44092 USA) in affiliation with Ofeq Institute, Inc.

Goal: To support the preparation of a critical edition of Rabbi Abraham Ben David's commentary (ca. 1198) on SIFRA, itself a commentary on the book of LEVITICUS.

Grant: 159375 / RE-20644-87,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Editions,   Year Awarded: 1987

Hymns to Isis in her Temple at Philae, by Louis V. Zabkar

Recipient: Backus, Charles (Hanover, NH 03755 USA) in affiliation with University Press of New England

Goal: To support the publication of a study of the earliest and most important of thehymns to Isis, which are engraved on the walls of a temple built by Ptolemy II Philadelphus at Philae between 284 and 246 B.C.

Grant: 160727 / RP-20959-87,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Scholarly Publications,   Year Awarded: 1987

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

Recipient: Michalowski, Piotr (Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608 USA) in affiliation with University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA)

Goal: 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.).

Grant: 160050 / RL-21005-86,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Translations,   Year Awarded: 1986

Institute on Greek Tragedy for Non-Classicists

Recipient: Scott, William C (Hanover, NH 03755-0000 USA) in affiliation with Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH 03755 USA)

Goal: To support a summer institute on classical Greek tragedy for 30 college and university teachers who are nonclassicists.

Grant: 124413 / EH-20523-85,   Division: Education Programs,   Program: Institutes for College and University Teachers,   Year Awarded: 1985

Completing the Greek Textual Variant Files for CATSS Project

Recipient: Kraft, Robert (Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304 USA) in affiliation with University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA)

Goal: To support the encoding, verification, and reformatting of the Greek textual variants of the ancient Jewish scriptures for the data base of Hebrew and Greekscriptures, the Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies Project.

Grant: 161162 / RT-20454-84,   Division: Preservation and Access,   Program: Reference Materials - Tools,   Year Awarded: 1984