NEH Grant for Humanities Project |
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April 7, 2015, Volume 61, No. 29 |
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Grant Frame, University of Pennsylvania associate professor of Near Eastern languages and civilizations, a two-year $250,000 grant for his Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project. The award brings to nearly $950,000 the total NEH grants Dr. Frame has received for the RINAP Project since 2008.
As director and editor-in-chief, Dr. Frame leads a research team that is editing and translating all of the known royal inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Kings, including Sargon II and Sennacherib, who are mentioned in biblical and classical sources, in print volumes and online, in a fully searchable and indexed format.
“This project is preserving ancient history and making it accessible in printed volumes and online for scholars, students and interested individuals throughout the world,” Dr. Frame said. “I am extremely grateful for the NEH support and for the support we’ve received from Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences, the Penn Museum and the department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations.”
In addition to publishing the work in a series of seven volumes, the project data is being entered into an electronic format and fully integrated into online platforms, the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. The RINAP website is at http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/
Dr. Frame, an expert on ancient Mesopotamian languages, history and culture in the first millennium BCE, is also associate curator of the Babylonian Section of the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
This round of NEH grants this fiscal year totals $22.8 million for 232 humanities projects, including Dr. Frame’s award and summer research stipends to two SAS scholars, Michelle Pinto and Catriona MacLeod, who each received $6,000 to support their research.
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Esarhaddon and his tutelary deities carved on a stele (above) discovered at Zinçirli. Images courtesy of Vorderasiatisches Museum, VA |
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