2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Civilization of the Sumerian Writing System: Formation and Diffusion
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17063006
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Review Section |
Humanities and Social Sciences
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| Research Institution | Kokushikan University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAEKAWA Kazuya Kokushikan University, 21世紀アジア学部, 教授 (60027547)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MAEDA Tohru 早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 教授 (80116665)
YODA Izumi 常磐大学, 国際学部, 教授 (40285747)
MORI Wakaha , 総合地球環境学研究所, ブロジェクト上級研究員 (80419457)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
MATHUSHIMA Eiko 法政大学, キャリアデザイン学部, 教授 (90157305)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2009
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| Keywords | シュメール / 文字記録システム / シリア / セム / メソポタミア |
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| Research Abstract |
The Sumerian writing system, invented in the last period of the 4th millennium BC, was fully accepted by the Semitic peoples in northern Mesopotamia and Syria in the middle of the 3rd millennium BC at the latest. Thus we have defined the Syro-Mesopotamian civilization as the "civilization of the Sumerian writing system." The following topics have been studied in this research project : 1) the formation and diffusion of the Sumerian writing system, 2) the social system and the political ideology of the Semitic peoples as seen in the Syro-Mesopotamian cuneiform documents.
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