This repo is a research environment for the study of cuneiform tablets. You can run your own programs off-line, and publish your work in online notebooks.
This repo contains transliterations of Old Assyrian documents (2000-1900 BC).
The data is obtained from CDLI, the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative.
See also about and transcription.
The main processing tool is Text-Fabric. It is instrumental to turn the analysis of ancient data into computing narratives.
The ecosystem is Python and Jupyter notebooks.
Start with the tutorial.
This repo is joint work of
- Dirk Roorda at DANS
- J. Cale Johnson at the University of Birmingham
- Martijn Kokken transcribed many tablets in the corpus, provided helpful feedback;
- Alba de Ridder transcribed many tablets in the corpus, provided helpful feedback.
- Auday Hussein helped with the mapping from readings to cuneiform unicode;
N.B.: Releases of this repo have been archived at Zenodo. Click the DOI badge to be taken to the archive. There you find ways to cite this work.
- 2020-06-25 First conversion to TF, with the same code as used for Old Babylonian.
- 2018-06-19 First discussion of converting the Old Assyrian corpus with Alba, Martijn, en Cale during Cale's visit to Leiden.