Cuneiform Text Corpus

A collection of texts written in cuneiform presented in cuneiform.

This project takes online resources in cuneiform that have been transliterated into Latin script and transliterates them back into cuneiform using Unicode. This makes these stories and texts accessible in their original form online in the 21st century.

The code uses a simple dictionary to transliterate the sign names into Unicode.

Copyright

JavaScript code ©2017–2021 Samuel B Grundman. All rights reserved.

The original texts/stories, in their original language, are in the public domain and I believe the transliterated text would be, too. Regardless, I contend this project falls fully within the United States' doctrine of transformative fair use.

Any English translations used in this project either are simple definitions of individual words, were taken from a source in the public domain, or were published with permission from the original translator and properly cited.

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