Learn about Life and Death on the Estate of a Princess in 21st Century BCE Mesopotamia from Prof. David Owen of Cornell University. The lecture is the fourth in a series of lectures focusing on "The Roots of Literacy in the Ancient Near East" being held in conjunction with the exhibit Writings Out of Time: The University of Arizona's Cuneiform Collection on display in Special Collections from Sept. 14 through Dec. 8. Prof. Owen is The Bernard and Jane Shapiro Professor of Ancient Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Curator of Tablet Collections in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University.