study on the archives found at Susa, Iran

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520866
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Archaeology
• Research Institution: Hosei University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUSHIMA Eiko 法政大学, キャリアデザイン学研究科, 教授 (90157305)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MORI Wakaha 国士舘大学, イラク古代文化研究所, 共同研究員 (80419457) ; TERAMURA Hirofumi 国立民族学博物館, 文化資源研究センター, 助教 (10455230)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 古代イラン / 古代メソポタミア / 楔形文書 / エラム語 / アッカド語 / シュメール語 / 歴史・文化研究 / 都市国家

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The National Museum of Iran, Tehran, houses an amount of archives, including cuneiform tablets found at Susa, one of the most important city-state in ancient Mesopotamia and Iran. I, as well as my Japanese colleagues have studied Sumerian, Akkadian, and Elamite texts, deciphering, translating, and interpreting from points of history, linguistics and culture studies. Since 2012, we visited Tehran once or twice a year in order to collect pictures and 3D data of archives, then in Japan, have studied with them. In december 2014, we organized an international symposium at the Center of Eurasian Studies in Kyoto University, inviting some specialist from abroad; the main purpose of this symposium was to present a first report of our activities. We have already published two reports with Grant-in-Aide for Scientific Research, and are now preparing a formal report of our scientific activities, trying to get a ISBN number. It will be published in a very near future.

Free Research Field

古代メソポタミア史、古代イラン・エラム史