IAA Subsidies for Cuneiform Studies and Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology

LAST YEAR!

 

Please observe the following rules and regulations:

Conditions
1. The IAA subsidies for cuneiform studies and ancient near eastern archaeology are meant for projects of a limited duration carried out by advanced students and early career scholars within five years after obtaining their doctoral degree.
2. The application consists of the application form and three appendices: 1) a succinct description of the proposed project (max 2 Pages); 2) a written letter of support from the applicant’s supervisor (max 1 Page); 3) a detailed budget. IAA Subsidies application form (PDF)
3.The subsidy will cover the costs of one to three projects up to €3,000, depending by the quality of the applications.
4. If a sum lower than €3,000 is awarded, the remainder may be conferred to another project.

Committee
1. The committee, which will be selected by the IAA Board, shall consist of three persons; only members of the IAA will be eligible.
2. The committee members will serve for three years, after which a new committee will be chosen.

Timetable
1. Applications should be sent to office@iaassyriology.com before April 30.
2. The three or four members of the committee will evaluate the applications and make a preliminary ranking.
3. The committee will submit its selection report to the IAA Board no later than June 1.
4. During the following Rencontre the conclusions will be discussed at the Board meeting.
5. The subsidies will be awarded during the general meeting.

Please send your application to the following email address:office@iaassyriology.com.

PLEASE NOTE: At the 2015 IAA Board Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, the Board decided that the IAA Subsidies for Cuneiform Studies and Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology should not be awarded to any project that will make direct use of unprovenanced material acquired after 1970. This decision was ratified at the 2015 General Meeting in Bern, Switzerland. The date was chosen based on the November 14, 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (see http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13039&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html). This restriction applies only to work done under the auspices of the IAA Subsidies for Cuneiform Studies and Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology. Applicants for the IAA Subsidies for Cuneiform Studies and Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology are asked to indicate in the required short description of the subject of research that the material on which they are working meets the requirement set forth above.

 

Previous winners

2023

Hamaseh Golestaneh, for the project:  “Persepolis Fortification Tablets: Epigraphic Practice and Analysis of Select Tablets.” 

Runner-up: Annarita Bonfanti, for the project: “A new study of the Urartian royal bowls: the materials from the History Museum of Armenia and the Erebuni Museum.”

2019

Gil Breger, for the project: “The Ziqpu-stars and Cuneiform Knowledge: Meaning, Applications, Contexts.”

2018

Caleb Howard, for the project: “Variation in the Manuscripts of the Standard Inscription of Ashurnasirpal II.”

2017 

Odette Boivin, for the project: “The Archive of the Sons of Labashi in the British Museum.”

2016 

Elyze Zomer

2015

Geert De Breucker, for the project: “Berossos of Babylon.”