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Timothy Matney

Grant Type

Post PhD Research Grant

Institutional Affiliation

Akron, U. of

Grant number

Gr. 10474

Approve Date

April 6, 2023

Project Title

Matney, Timothy (Akron, U. of) "The Sebittu Project: Deportees, Agrarian Economy and Environment in the Rural Hamlets and Farmsteads of Imperial Assyria"

This proposal requests funds to pilot an archaeology project exploring the nature of the agrarian infrastructure of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (9th-7th century BC) in the Erbil Plain of Iraqi Kurdistan. What is novel about the Sebittu Project is that it tak