/oldbabylonian

Cuneiform tablets from the Old Babylonian period (1900-1600 BC) in Text-Fabric

Primary LanguageJupyter NotebookMIT LicenseMIT

Nino-cunei

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Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed.

Cuneiform corpora in Text-Fabric

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.

Corpus

This repo contains transliterations of Old Babylonian letters (1900-1600 BC).

The data is obtained from CDLI, the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative.

See also about and transcription.

Software

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.

Getting started

Start with the tutorial.

Authors

Acknowledgements

  • Audey Hussein helped with the mapping from readings to cuneiform unicode;
  • Martijn Kokken transcribed many tablets in the corpus, provided helpful feedback;
  • Alba de Ridder transcribed many tablets in the corpus, provided helpful feedback.

N.B.: Releases of this repo have been archived at Zenodo.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.

Status

  • 2018-02-28 A dedicated TF app for Old Babylonian letters. encoding into ATF can be reproduced exactly from the TF source.
  • 2018-02-26 Text-Fabric data generated, and throughly checked.
  • 2018-01-25 First discussion of converting the Old Babylonian letter corpus when Dirk was visiting Cale in Birmingham.