Funded under
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Start date
1 October 2022
End date
30 September 2024
Epithets express gods' powers. Focussing on qualities needed for a particular ritual,
they create a more effective interaction with the gods. This project will provide a
catalogue of Sumerian divine epithets from a corpus of ca. 650 previously translated
literary texts and royal inscriptions (ca. 2500-1600 BC). The objectives of the project
are: 1) to create an online database of divine epithets found in Sumerian literary texts
and royal inscriptions from the Old Sumerian to the Old Babylonian period (circa
2500–1600 BCE) which will be made available via the Leipzig University website; 2)
to investigate their structure; 3) to analyse the relationship between epithets and the
intentions of the texts, considering their function in narrative passages, human-divine
communications and intertextuality.
Link zur Projektseite:
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101065852