Kurt Oertel schrieb:
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> Heidelberger Preis fuer Altorientalistik
>
> It gives me great pleasure to be able to offer a prize for excellent
> scholarly work in Ancient Near Eastern Studies. The prize is intended to
> encourage the development and advancement of young scholars in the
> fields
> of ancient Near Eastern philology, ancient Near Eastern history and Near
> Eastern archaeology. In keeping with the international character of
> Ancient Near Eastern Studies, it will be advertised worldwide.
>
> There will be three awards: a first prize in the sum of 10,000.- DM,
> a second prize in the sum of 5,000.- DM,
> and
> a third prize in the sum of 3,000.-DM.
>
> It is intended that the winners use the prize-money exclusively for
> academic purposes (funding of study tours and study in museums;
> acquisition of study materials such as museum photographs, etc.;
> acquisition of specialist literature) and that they will be able to draw
> on the prize money as needs arise for a period of up to about two years.
>
> The task of the participants is to produce in a period of eight months
> an
> original dissertation (maximum length 80,000 characters) on one of the
> following topics:
>
> - Assur/Assyria
> - Ancient Near Eastern religion(s)
> - Ancient Near Eastern cultic topography
> - Ancient Near Eastern `science'
>
> Entries from the twin disciplines of Near Eastern archaeology and
> ancient
> Near Eastern philology will be treated equally. Especially desirable
> (though not a condition of taking part) are pieces of work that can take
> account of evidence from both archaeology and philology and seek to make
> connections between them. Starting from textual sources and/or concrete
> archaeological finds and data, the work submitted should yield new
> knowledge of cultural-historical interest about the intellectual world
> of
> the ancient Near East.
>
> Eligible for participation in the competition are scholars in Ancient
> Near
> Eastern Studies and other disciplines, who submit by the deadline
> dissertations on the above-mentioned topics, provided that they are less
> than 33 years of age at the time of this announcement.
>
> Work submitted should be written in German, French, English or Italian.
> In
> addition to a dissertation, participants in the competition are
> requested
> to provide a curriculum vitae and, where appropriate, a list of
> publications, and to send their entries by **15 March 2001** at the
> latest
> to:
>
> Prof. Dr. Stefan M. Maul
> Seminar fuer Sprachen and Kulturen des Vorderen Orients -- Assyriologie
> Hauptstr. 126 D-69117
> HEIDELBERG Germany
>
> After the receipt of the dissertations an international panel of five
> judges will determine the prize winners. The identities of the winners
> will
> be made public in Spring 2001, at a festive event in Heidelberg.
>
>
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geoff carver
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