16. Ilgi Gerçek and Selim Adalı: The Istanbul Sippar Project

Ilgi and Selim explain their collaborative project to document and eventually publish an important group of texts from Turkish-sponsored excavations at Sippar in the late 19th century. They discuss the number and content of these tablets, and how they came to Istanbul. What are the project’s aims and what progress has been made so far? 5:07 About the Project 5:47 Why Sippar? 7:27 About the tablets 9:25 How they came to Istanbul 13:15 Results and further goals 18:45 Wider dissemin...