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1 | Resource Type | Resource Title | Abbreviation | Field(s) | URL | Data Type | Summary | Initiator(s) | Number of Sources | Is downloadable | Download Tips | Copyrights | Copyrights URL | Citation | Contributor(s) | Comments | ||||||||||||||||||
2 | Databases | Achemenet | assyriology; classics | http://www.achemenet.com/en/ | texts, artefacts, archaeological sites | An online dataset of primary sources for the study of the Achaemenid empire (550-330 BCE). It includes online text editions of Aramaic, Akkadian, Egyptian, Elamite, Greek, and Lycian documents, as well as images, drawings, and descriptions of relevant Achaemenid period sites, art and artefacts. Its designated journal ARTA publishes on research into Achaemenid texts and archaeology. | Pierre Briant | ca. 4,000 texts | yes | through Korp: A snapshot of the Babylonian text data as it stood in 2020 is available for exploration on "Achemenet in Korp 2020" (http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2023062102). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Datasets | Geographic Data for Ancient Near Eastern Archaeological Sites | anatolian-studies; archaeology; assyriology; classics; egyptology; semitic-studies | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6384045 | placenames, archaeological sites | This is a geographical dataset of ancient Near Eastern sites, in a KMZ format that accomodates Google Earth. The data includes geo-referenced cities (marked by dots) and sites (marked by polygons). It also includes a dataset with water placemarks. For more details, see the accompanying published article: Pedersén, Olof. “Ancient Near East on Google Earth: Problems, Preliminary Results, and Prospects.” Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East: 12 April - 16 April 2010, the British Museum and UCL, London, edited by Roger Matthews and John Curtis, vol. 3: Fieldworks and recent research, Harrassowitz, 2012, pp. 385–93. | Olof Pedersén | ca. 2500 geo-tagged sites; out of which 400 are identified with ancient placenames | yes | Pedersen, Olof. (2007). ANE Site Placemarks for Google Earth (Version 10) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6384045 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Tools | GigaMesh | archaeology; assyriology | https://gigamesh.eu | 3D artefacts | GigaMesh is an open source software for processing archaeological artefacts captured in high-resolution 3D models. It is a powerful tool for morphologically analyzing, among other, ceramic and cuneiform tablets, creating automatic hand-copies, identifying and emphasizing fingerprints, to name a few. GigaMesh is accompanied by many tutorials on their website and in YouTube videos. To use the tool, it needs to be downloaded to your local computer. | Hubert Mara | yes | currently works on Windows and Linux operating systems. | FOSS: GNU GPL v3 or later | https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html | Mara, H., Krömker, S., Jakob, S., & Breuckmann, B. (2010). GigaMesh and Gilgamesh – 3D Multiscale Integral Invariant Cuneiform Character Extraction. In A. Artusi, M. Joly, G. Lucet, D. Pitzalis, & A. Ribes (Eds.), The 11th international symposium on virtual reality, archaeology and cultural heritage (VAST - now GCH). The Eurographics Association. https://doi.org/10.2312/VAST/VAST10/131-138 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Programming Resources | Computational Assyriology | Compass | assyriology | https://github.com/niekveldhuis/compass | texts | The Computational Assyriology project is a github repository of Jupyter notebooks, which include introductions, explanations, and python code to extract, manipulate, and study cuneiform sources computationally. Among others, there is educational code on how to download and process data from some of the biggest databases in the field: ORACC, ETCSL, CDLI, and BDTNS. It is possible to use even without prerequisite knowledge in the python programming language. | Niek Veldhuis | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Academic Resources | Electronic Texts and Ancient Near Eastern Archives | ETANA | assyriology | https://etana.org/home | texts, bibliography, archaeological sites | ETANA holds a collection of freely available PDFs of old publication related to assyriology whose copy rights have expired, or that were made freely available by their publishers and/or authors. In addition, it holds the eTACT corpus of 29 cuneiform texts in English translation from various periods and genres. | Multi-institutional collaborative project | yes | search results can be exported as CSV, plain text, and XML | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Dictionaries and Abbreviations | ePensilvannia Sumerian Dictionary | ePSD | assyriology | http://oracc.org/epsd2/index.html | texts | The electronic Pensilvannia Sumerian Dictionary is an ORACC based dictionary project for the Sumerian language. The lemma entries in this dictionary are organized according to their phonetic value, as opposed to other Sumerian dictionaries which organize their entries according to sign readings. Since it is hosted on ORACC, the lemma entries are linked to Sumerian text corpora. | Steve Tinney, Philip Jones, Niek Veldhuis | ca. 16,000 words in 110,000 texts | yes | data available in JSON format (http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/epsd2/json/index.html) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Databases | Archives Babyloniennes | Archibab | assyriology | https://www.archibab.fr/ | texts, placenames, bibliography | Archibab holds textual editions of documents from the Old Babylonian period (20<sup>th</sup>-17<sup>th</sup> centuries BCE). In addition to online editions, it includes a searchable bibliography of secondary publications relevant to the period, information on seals, and a link to a dataset on prices and wages for the period prepared by Howard Farber. An introduction to the project, its design, purpose, and functionalities, can be found in the following article: Charpin, Dominique. (2014). The Assyriologist and the Computer: The “Archibab” Project. Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israel. 3. 10.1628/219222714X13994465496947. | Dominique Charpin | ca. 23,340 texts; 5,926 bibliographical records | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Databases | Babylonische Medizin | BabMed | assyriology | https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/babmed/Corpora/index.html | texts | The Babylonische Medizin project aims to comprehensively study cuneiform medical texts, in comparison with later medical traditions in the Babylonian Talmud and the Greco-Roman traditions. As part of the project, they publish online editions of cuneiform medical texts that have yet to be edited before. | Markham J. Geller, J. Cale Johnson | unspecified | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Databases | Cuneiform Commentaries Project | CCP | assyriology | https://ccp.yale.edu/ | texts | Cuneiform commentaries are hermeneutical texts dedicated to explaining learned Mesopotamian texts. There are approximately 900 cuneiform commentaries, all from the first millennium BCE. The CCP projects has a catalogue for each commentary, as well as lemmatized textual editions for some of the corpus. The project portal also includes introductory materials into the commentaries' history, typology, techniques, etc. | Eckart Frahm, Enrique Jiménez | 882 texts in database; 205 texts with editions | yes | through the ORACC server--see Compass under Programming Resources | |||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Databases | Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts | BDTNS | assyriology | http://bdtns.filol.csic.es/index.php | texts | The BDTNS project collects Sumerian administrative texts from the Ur III period (21<sup>th</sup> century BCE). This period provides an unprecedented amount of records documenting the complex bureaucratical system of the Ur III empire--there are estimated to be ca. 120,000 administrative documents from this period, today spread across museums world wide. The website includes textual editions, photographs, and metadata. | Manuel Molina, Marcel Sigrist | 104,570 texts overall; 68,529 with hand-copy or edition | yes | through Compass (see under Programming Resources) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Databases | Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature | ETCSL | assyriology | https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/ | texts | An online dataset of Sumerian literature, the earliest literature in world history (2500 BCE until the early 2<sup>nd</sup> mill. BCE). The ETCSL includes score transliterations of Sumerian literature which are lemmatized, as well as translations. The data is catalogued according to different genres: ancient literary catalogues, narrative and mythological compositions, compositions with historical background or royal praise, literary letters and laws, hymns and cult, proverbs, and others. | Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, Gábor Zólyomi, Eleanor Robson | ca. 390 compositions | yes | through Compass (see under Programming Resources) | Black, J.A., Cunningham, G., Ebeling, J., Flückiger-Hawker, E., Robson, E., Taylor, J., and Zólyomi, G., <i>The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature</i> (http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/), Oxford 1998–2006. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Databases | Ebla Digital Archives | EbDA | assyriology | http://ebda.cnr.it/index | texts | The Ebla Digital Archives is a collection of documents and artifacts from the ancient city of Ebla, which was located in modern-day Syria (Tell Mardikh). Ebla flourished during the third millennium BCE and is known for its extensive cuneiform archive, containing a wealth of information about the administration, economy, culture, and language of the ancient Eblaite society. This project aims to create digital editions of the entire corpus of Eblaite texts, which used the cuneiform writing system. Their website includes lemmatized editions, word and sign dictionaries, advanced search options, and a bibliography | Lucio Milano, Massimo Maiocchi, Francesco Di Filippo, Renzo Orsini | 3182 tablets | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Databases | Prosobab | assyriology | https://prosobab.leidenuniv.nl/ | people, texts, metadata | Prosobab is an open access prosopography of individuals attested in cuneiform sources from Babylonia in the first millennium BCE (699-317 BCE), focusing on the time of the Achaemenid Empire. Prosobab collects extensive metadata on individuals appearing in legal and administrative documents, their disambiguation and attestations, as well as metadata on the tablets in which they are mentioned. The prosobab project team has also created tutorials on how to download and use the database for social network analysis. | Caroline Waerzeggers, Melanie Groß | 5160 tablets; 43,580 singular attestations of people in documents; 20,883 disambiguated individuals | yes | search results can be exported as JSON, XML, CSV, plain text, SQL, and MS-Excel | C. Waerzeggers, M. Groß, et al., <i>Prosobab: Prosopography of Babylonia (c. 620-330 BCE)</i> (Leiden University, 2019), available at https://prosobab.leidenuniv.nl. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Databases | Sources of Early Akkadian Literature | SEAL | assyriology | https://seal.huji.ac.il/ | texts | SEAL makes available online editions of Akkadian literary texts written in the Old Babylonian dialect from the 3<sup>rd</sup> and 2<sup>nd</sup> millennia BCE (c. 2400–1100). These include hymns, lamentations, prayers, incantations aganist diseases, demons and evil, love-lyrics, wisdom literature (proverbs, fables, riddles), epics, and myths. In addition to textual editions with metadata on collection, provenance, etc., SEAL includes an Akkadian vocabulary search, bibliography, and a map showing the findspots of the tablets in the corpus. | Michael P. Streck, Nathan Wasserman | 919 texts | no | Michael P. Streck and Nathan Wasserman, <i>Sources of Early Akkadian Literature</i>: http://seal.huji.ac.il. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Databases | Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative | CDLI | anatolian-studies; archaeology; assyriology | https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ | texts, metadata, tablet images | The CDLI is one of the earliest online databases for assyriology, which holds metadata for cuneiform tablets such as provenience, collection, publication, size, etc. Some of the entries include digital editions in ATF format, and also include an image of the object, a hand-copy of the object, or both. The updated CDLI platform includes several useful tools such as a transliteration checker, sign lists, year names, score editions, and assyriological abbreviations, to name a few. | Robert K. Englund, Peter Damerow, Émilie Pagé-Perron, Jacob L. Dahl, Bertrand Lafont, and Jürgen Renn | ca. 360,000 texts | yes | individual items can be exported in multiple formats; a dump of the full CDLI catalogue (last updated 22 Aug 2022) can be accessed and downloaded as a CSV through their GitHub repository (https://github.com/cdli-gh/data) | See terms of use | https://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/terms-of-use | |||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Databases | Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus | ORACC | assyriology | http://oracc.org/ | texts | ORACC is one of the largest online databases of digital cuneiform text editions. It is made up of several sub-projects, each of which collects cuneiform texts according to period and/or genre. Each sub-project is led by different teams of scholars. It utilizes the ATF format as well as XML and JSON to create lemmatized editions, and individual glossaries per sub-project. Outside of the individual projects, it includes several help pages on working and editing texts in ATF format. | Steve Tinney, Jamie Novotny, Eleanor Robson, Niek Veldhuis | Information on number of texts can be found through the individual projects | yes | through links on ORACC sub-project pages and with Compass (see under Programming Resources) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Academic Resources | Nouvelles Assyriologiques Brèves et Utilitaires | NABU | assyriology | https://sepoa.fr/nabu/ | articles | NABU is an open access journal for assyriology. It is published four times a year and is immediately made available to the wider public. Contributions to NABU tend to be brief assyriological notes for experts in the field. | Jean-Marie Durand, Nele Ziegler | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Academic Resources | Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures Publications Program | anatolian-studies; archaeology; assyriology; egyptology; semitic-studies | https://isac.uchicago.edu/research/catalog-publications | books | The publication program of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures decided in 2004 to make its publications freely available online in PDF format. As one of the foremost publishing houses for the field of ancient Near Eastern studies, this decision made available invaluable sources, such as the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, Chicago Demotic Dictionary, and the Chicago Hittite Dictionary, to name a few. | Faculty of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Academic Resources | Encyclopaedia Iranica | archaeology; assyriology; classics | https://iranicaonline.org/ | articles | The Encyclopaedia Iranica is a comprehensive resource for Iranian civilization. It includes almost 9,000 freely available articles on all aspects of Iranian history and culture, langauges, literatures, etc. Over 1,300 authors have contributed to the encyclopaedia in English, Russian, Persian, Turkish, and Chinese. | Ehsan Yarshater, Ahmad Ashraf | ca. 9,000 articles | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Databases | electronic Babylonian Library | eBL | assyriology | https://www.ebl.lmu.de/ | texts, tablet images, dictionaries, bibliography | The electronic Babylonian Library project photographed, digitized, and transliterated hundreds of thousands of cuneiform literary texts, primarily tablets from the British Museum. The eBL website contains text editions for tablet fragments under the Fragmentarium, as well as updated and lemmatized score editions of some of the most important works of Akkadian literature, accompanied by English translations. It also makes available in digital forms sign lists and Akkadian dictionaries that were previously only in print. | Enrique Jiménez | ca. 24,000 tablets transliterated; ca. 350,000 lines of texts; over two dozen composite editions in the corpus | yes | individual text edition and images can be downloaded in multiple formats | |||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Tools | Babylonian Verb Conjugator | BVC | assyriology | http://www.gilgamesh.ch/bvc/bvc.html | The Babylonian Verb Conjugator contains a list of 1347 Akkadian verbs and their full conjugation. Different verbs can be searched, and a full paradigm for each of the stems is then presented to the user. | Margaret Jaques, Dieter Koch | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Tools | Sumerian Verb Conjugator | SVC | assyriology | http://www.gilgamesh.ch/svc/svc.html | The Sumerian Verb Conjugator contains a list of 189 Sumerian verbs and 220 composite Sumerian verbs and their full conjugation. Different verbs can be searched, and a full paradigm with and without different verb patters is then presented to the user. | Margaret Jaques, Dieter Koch | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Tools | Akkadian Conjugator | assyriology | https://akkadian-conjugator.netlify.app/# | Akkadian Conjugator automatically generates full conjugations for 166 Akkadian verbs of all types: strong, I-weak, II-weak, and III-weak. It includes conjugations in the G, D, Š, and N stems. | Claude Barde | yes | The code that generates the conjugations is available through GitHub (https://github.com/claudebarde/akkadian-conjugator) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Tools | Sumerian Verb Analyser | SVA | assyriology | http://www.gilgamesh.ch/svc/sva.html | The Sumerian Verb Analyzer parses given conjugated Sumerian verbs. It offers several parsing options (depending on the verbal form). | Margaret Jaques, Dieter Koch | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Datasets | Cuneiform Inscriptions Geographical Site Index | CIGS | anatolian-studies; archaeology; assyriology | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7330077 | placenames, archaeological sites | Cuneiform Inscriptions Geographial Site (CIGS) index contains extensive metadata on archaeological sites where cuneiform-bearing artefacts were found. It follows linked open data standards, meaning each site is given a unique ID, and it is linked to other datasets such as CDLI proveniences ID, Pleiades, Wikidata, and more. It includes the modern names for the sites and, when identified, the ancient placenames. | Rune Rattenborg | ca. 500 archaeological locations | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Datasets | Mesopotamian Ancient Place-names Almanac | MAPA | assyriology | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6411251 | placenames | The MAPA gazetteer is a linked open data gazetteer of ancient placenames in and around Uruk in the first millennium BCE. The data for the gazetteer is drawn from legal, economic and administrative texts. The gazetteer follows the JSON-LD based Linked Places format of the World Historical Gazetteer. Each placename receives, among other metadata, a unique ID, its known title in assyriological publications, known variant spellings, the type of geographical entity, and its location relative to other placenames in the dataset. | Shai Gordin, Shmuel Clark | 377 placenames | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Dictionaries and Abbreviations | electronic Babylonian Library - Sign List | assyriology | https://www.ebl.lmu.de/signs | The eBL sign list collects data on sign readings from print sign publications in a convenient and searchable online interface. Each sign is presented with its different readings, including compound readings, and linked to Akkadian dictionary entries. In addition to a full reproduction of the relevant entry for each sign from the Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon, the eBL sign list includes images for each sign from tablets in the eBL Fragmentarium and Corpus. These are vital for palaeographical study, and are sorted according to period. | Enrique Jiménez | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Dictionaries and Abbreviations | electronic Babylonian Library - Dictionary | assyriology | https://www.ebl.lmu.de/dictionary | The eBL dictionary is a digital form of primarily <sup>A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian</sup>, by Black, J.; George, A.R.; Postgate, N. It also includes, when available, entries from other dictionaries. The dictionary lemmas are also linked to the eBL Fragmentarius and Corpus, so that one can browse a chosen word in context. | Enrique Jiménez | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Databases | Hethitologie Portal Mainz | HPM | anatolian-studies | https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/HPM/index.php | texts, tablet images, 3D models, bibliography | The Hethitologies Portal Mainz is one of the oldest digital humanities projects relating to the ancient Near East, that is still regularly updated and developed. It is the ultimate source for the study of the Hittite language and culture. It includes a digital Konkordanz of Hittite tablet fragments, the Catalogue of Hittite Texts (CTH), photos and 3D models of tablets, as well as digital editions for some of the Hittite texts in the database. There are also lists of Hittite toponyms, onomastica, and more. | Daniel Schwemer, Gerfrid G. W. Müller, Susanne Görke, Doris Prechel, Elisabeth Rieken, Gernot Wilhelm | Unspecified | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Dictionaries and Abbreviations | Hethitologie Portal Mainz Abkürzungsverzeichnis | anatolian-studies; assyriology | https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/hetkonk/hetkonkabkrz.html | As part of the Hethitologie Portal Mainz (see under Databases), the following includes a comprehensive lists of abbreviations used in the field of Hittitology, as well as some abbreviations relevant to cuneiform studies at large. | Daniel Schwemer, Gerfrid G. W. Müller, Susanne Görke, Doris Prechel, Elisabeth Rieken, Gernot Wilhelm | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Dictionaries and Abbreviations | Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries | SAD | assyriology | https://www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/altorientalisches-institut/forschung/supplement-to-the-akkadian-dictionaries | The Supplement to the Akkadian dictionaries is a project that seeks to update and correct the main Akkadian dictionaries in the field of assyriology: von Soden's Akkadisches Handwörterbuch and the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary. SAD is published in physical form as well as online. | Michael P. Streck | yes | as PDFs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Dictionaries and Abbreviations | Reallexikon der Assyriologie Abkürzungen | anatolian-studies; assyriology | https://rla.badw.de/reallexikon/abkuerzungslisten/literatur-und-koerperschaften.html | As part of the online publication of the Reallexikon der Assyriologie (see under Academic Resources), a digital list of abbreviations used in cuneifom studies is provided. The list also includes old abbreviations which are no longer in use, and references to the updated abbreviations. | Michael P. Streck | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Tools | MesoCalc | assyriology | http://baptiste.meles.free.fr/site/mesocalc.html | MesoCalc is an online tool for measure conversions from the Mesopotamian mesurement systems to our modern ones, as well as between different Mesopotamian measurement systems, and basic arithmetic calculations. The source code is available for download and adaptations. | Baptiste Mélès | yes | The HTML of the website is downloadable, so that it can be used locally. All the code used for the calculations is written in the single HTML file, and can be used and adapted. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Databases | Paleo Codage | assyriology | https://situx.github.io/PaleoCodage/ | cuneiform signs, font | Paleo Codage is a machine-readable way to describe cuneiform characters. It uses a set of latin characters and punctuation marks to describe the position and size of the wedges in individual signs. It is meant as a palaeographical tool in computational studies of different sign forms. The website allows viewing existing signs in the database, as well as creating new signs, and downloading the results as new fonts. | Timo Homburg | 382 cuneiform signs | yes | through the Github repository: https://github.com/situx/PaleoCodage | Timo Homburg (2019), <i>Paleo Codage - A machine-readable way to describe cuneiform characters paleographically</i>, in ADHO 2019 Book of Abstracts, available at: https://dh-abstracts.library.virginia.edu/works/9865 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Tools | Babylonian Calendar Converter | assyriology | https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/babylon/babycal_converter.htm | This tools converts Babylonian dates to their correspoinding Julian dates, based on the tables of the Babylonian calendar published by Parker and Dubberstein (1971). The calendar is valid from the accession year of the Neo-Babylonian king Nabopolassar (626/625 BCE), until 75/76 CE. | Robert Harry van Gent | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Databases | Hittite Monuments | anatolian-studies | http://hittitemonuments.com/ | images, archaeological sites, maps | Hittite Monuments is an online resource for viewing inscriptions and rock monuments in Hieroglyphic Luwian of the Hittite empire and later Neo-Hittite city-states. The sites can be found via a map interface and an alphabetical list. For each site, there is a description of the location and inscription, images, and further secondary literature. | Tayfun Bilgin | unspecified | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Databases | Colophons and Scholars | assyriology | https://colophons-and-scholars.com/home | people, texts, metadata | This database provides metadata on scribes attested in colophons of literary and scientific cuneiform tablets from the first millennium, from ca. 900 until the first century BCE. In these colophons, the scribes often provide their name, the name of their master scribe, the tablet's owner, and the time and place of writing, which provides a glimpse into the geneolgies and networks in which the scribes operated and transmitted their knowledge. In the online interface, individuals or colophons can be searched as well as browsed through the catalogue. | Natalie Naomi May, Ilya Khait | 522 individuals; 851 colophons | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Databases | Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon | CAL | semitic-studies | https://cal.huc.edu/ | lexicon, texts, bibliography | The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon project created on online databse with lemmatized texts and dictionary entries for all dialects of Aramaic, from the 9<sup>th</sup> century BCE to the 13<sup>th</sup> century CE. The lexemes are accessible through Aramaic or English glosses, as well as a text browse and bibliographical searches | Stephen A. Kaufman | ca. 40,000 headwords; ca. 95,000 lexical citations; unspecified number of text editions | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Databases | Late Babylonian Signs | LaBaSi | assyriology | https://labasi.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ | cueniform sign images | LaBaSi is an online sign list for the Neo-Babylonian period. It collects cropped sign images from cuneiform tablets. One can browse the data through the texts, glyphs, or standard signs, as well as compare between available glyphs of two signs. The tablets and their related signs include metadata on the period, region, archive, and scribe of the tablet. | Michael Jursa, Reinhard Pirngruber | 667 tablets; 13,043 glyphs; 239 signs | yes | through the API | |||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Databases | Lost Treasures from Iraq | archaeology; assyriology | https://oi-archive.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/iraq.html | images, bibliography | Lost Treasure from Iraq is a project initiated in 2003 by the Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture (previously the Oriental Institute). It was a response to the war crisis in Iraq which put in danger countless ancient artefacts. Their online database includes many images of cultural heritage objects housed in Iraq museums, some of which are not available to find elsewhere. There is also a database of images of archaeological sites in Iraq. The database was last updated in 2008. | Charles E. Jones, Nicholas Kouchoukos, Clemens Reichel, John Sanders, Matthew Stolper | unspecified | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Academic Resources | Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie | RlA | anatolian-studies; archaeology; assyriology | https://publikationen.badw.de/de/rla/index | articles | The RlA is the foremost encyclopedic resource for the ancient Near East. Published from 1928 until 2018, it contains articles in English, French, and German about locations, deities, kings, history, religion, literature, sciences, flora and fauna, material culture, art and architecture in Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia, Iran, the Levant, and neighboring regions. Chronologically it covers these areas from prehistory until the end of cuneiform cultures at the first centuries CE. Recently the contents of the RlA have been made freely available to view online. | Bruno Meissner, Erich Ebeling, Ernst Weidner, Margarete Falkner, Wolfram von Soden, Ruth Opificius, Dietz Otto Edzard, Gabriella Frantz-Szabó, Michael P. Streck (among many others) | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Databases | Old Babylonian Text Corpus | OBTC | assyriology | https://klinopis.zcu.cz/ | texts, dictionary, sign forms | The OBTC contains cuneiform texts written in the Old Babylonian dialect. It also includes a dictionary and a sign search which provides the user to view variant sign forms in OB texts from hand-copies. Some of the texts in the OBTC are available to members of the Cuneiform Circle only; details on how to join are available on the website. The dictionary, sign forms, Codex Hammurapi and AbB 5 are available to all. | Sergey Lyosov | 144098 text lines, not all of which are available without membership | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Databases | Ur Online | assyriology | http://www.ur-online.org/ | seal images, site images, card catalogues, excavation notes, metadata | Ur (modern Tell al-Muqayyar) is one of the earliest and most important cities in Mesopotamia, inhabited for thousands of years. The Ur online project aims to bring together digitally finds from the site that are now spread through three different museums: the Iraq Museum, the British Museum, and Penn Museum. This joint online collection includes images and metadata on finds from the field, excavation notes and card catalogues of Sir Leonard Wooley, the first excavator at the site, as well as informative articles on the history of the site and its excavations. | Brad Hafford | unspecified | yes | individual items can be exported in JSON, XML, or CSV formats | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Datasets | Social Network of the Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire | assyriology | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6220409 | people | This is a social network of the Neo-Assyrian empire, based on the PDF file versions of the Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (PNA) volumes. It includes the necessary data files, nodes and edges list, to visualize and analyze the network. The creation of the dataset and the information it holds is described in the following publication: Jauhiainen, H., & Alstola, T. (2022). A Social Network of the Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. <i>Journal of Open Humanities Data</i> 8. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/johd.74. | Heidi Jauhiainen, Tero Alstola | yes | Jauhiainen, Heidi, & Alstola, Tero. (2022). A Social Network of the Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6220409 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Academic Resources | Sumerian texts in translation | assyriology | https://www.iaw.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/va_personen/prof_em_dr_attinger_pascal/index_ger.html#pane765518 | texts | Pascal Attinger has made available online through his personal website dozens of Sumerian texts in French translation. The links on the website lead to Zenodo repositories where the translations can be downloaded as PDFs and a proper citation is specified. The PDFs include updated references on previous works for each texts and detailed notes on the translations. | Pascal Attinger | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Dictionaries and Abbreviations | eAkkadian | assyriology | https://digitalpasts.github.io/eAkkadian/home.html | eAkkadian is an online coursebook for the Akkadian language, in a Jupyter notebook. It is an interactive workbook in which each lesson includes explanations, exercises, vocabulary and cuneiform signs to learn, and homework assignments. It also contains some general tips and useful information on conventions in the field. As a Jupyter notebook, the source code and content of eAkkadian is downloadable and freely available. | Shai Gordin, Luis Sáenz | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Databases | FactGrid Cuneiform Project | assyriology | https://database.factgrid.de/wiki/FactGrid:Cuneiform_Project | FactGrid is a wiki-based project aimed at documenting in linked open data format information relevant for historical study. In other words, it aims to create a comprehensive database for historical disciplines, following joined conventions across fields. FactGrid is divided into chronological periods, and independent projects can be developed under each period category. Data is primarily explorable using the SPARQL query language, which provides data mining and big data visualizations. The FactGrid Cuneiform project specifically collects data found are relevant to cuneiform-bearing objects. | Adam Anderson | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Databases | FactGrid Bible & Quran Project | semitic-studies | https://database.factgrid.de/wiki/FactGrid:The_Bible_%26_Quran_Project | FactGrid is a wiki-based project aimed at documenting in linked open data format information relevant for historical study. In other words, it aims to create a comprehensive database for historical disciplines, following joined conventions across fields. FactGrid is divided into chronological periods, and independent projects can be developed under each period category. Data is primarily explorable using the SPARQL query language, which provides data mining and big data visualizations. The FactGrid Bible & Quran project currently includes the books of the protestant bible, verses, and protagnists appearing therein. | Olaf Simons | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Databases | Old Assyrian Research Environment | OARE | assyriology | https://oare.byu.edu/ | texts, signs | The OARE is intended to facilitate study of the Old Assyrian textual corpus from Kültepe Level II and Kültepe Level Ib. Currently, it includes lemmatized text editions and a sign list specifically for Old Assyrian sign readings. The texts can be searched through the name of the texts, and also through the transliterations. | Edward Stratford | unspecified | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Databases | Linear B Electronic Resources | LiBER | classics | http://liber.isma.cnr.it/cgi-bin/home.cgi | texts, tablet images | This project created digital editions of the Linear B documents found at Mycenae, Tiryns and Midea (the Knossos materials are being processed). Each textual edition appears on the website with an image of the tablet, as well metadata such a the specific findspot of the text. Texts can be searched through their transliterations, or their findspots via the map view. To explore the corpus, one needs to fill out a quick registration form. | Maurizio Del Freo, Francesco Di Filippo, Françoise Rougemont, Claudia V. Alonso Moreno | 179 texts | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Tools | ANEE Lexical Networks v.2.0 | assyriology | https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/ancient-near-eastern-empires/research-data/anee-lexical-networks-v20 | The ANEE Lexical networks provides a network analysis of syntagmatic semantic relationships between words in Akkadian, taken from the ORACC corpora. It is based on calculations of co-occurances of lexemes, using a method called Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI). The networks are available to view online. They are divide into those with and without proper nouns, and according to periods. For more information about the methodology, see the published articles. | Saana Svärd and others | 4930 lexemes | yes | through Zenodo: Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, Tero Alstola, Saana Svärd, & Krister Lindén. (2021). ANEE Lexical Portal - the dataset [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4646662 | Tero Alstola, Heidi Jauhiainen, Saana Svärd, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén. 2023. “Digital Approaches to Analyzing and Translating Emotion: What Is Love?” In Karen Sonik and Ulrike Steinert (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Emotions in the Ancient Near East. London: Routledge, pp. 88-116; and Saana Svärd, Tero Alstola, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén. 2021. “Fear in Akkadian Texts: New Digital Perspectives on Lexical Semantics.” In Shih-Wei Hsu and Jaume Llop-Raduà (eds.) The Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East. Leiden: Brill, pp. 470-502. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004430761_019. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Tools | Cuneify | anatolian-studies; assyriology | http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/cuneifyplus | In 2004, the set of Unicode cuneiform glyphs was established, allowing a digital representation of the cuneiform sign repertoire (on its creation, see Cohen et al. 2004. iClay: Digitizing cuneiform. In Chrysanthou et al. (eds.), <i>The 5th international symposium on virtual reality, archaeology and cultural heritage</i> (VAST 2004), 135–143. doi:10.2312/VAST/VAST04/135-143). Since each transliterated cuneiform sign can only come from one cuneiform signs, it is simple to convert transliterations to their original cuneiform representations, in digital format. Cuneify is a tool that does just that. It is possible to then view the resulting cuneiform glyphs in several fonts, representing different periods and genres. | Steve Tinney, Tom Gillam | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Datasets | Neo-Babylonian Cuneiform Corpus | NaBuCCo | assyriology | https://nabucco.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ | texts, archives, placenames, bibliography, metadata | The Neo-Babylonian Cuneiform Corpus was initiated by Kathleen Abraham and Shai Gordin at KU Leuven as part of Gordin's Post-Doc project (2014), later joined by Michael Jursa (Vienna). The database was originaly hosted on an OMEKA frontend of the KU Leuven, which displayed text summaries and detailed metadata for several thousands of Neo-Babylonian texts. Their chronological range covers the period between 800 BCE till the end of cuneiform writing at c. 70 CE, though more than half concentrate on the “long sixth century” – between the fall of Assyria and the 2nd year of Xerxes (626-484 BCE). Geographically, the sources stem mainly from the five large cities of Babylonia and their immediate region. They are (from north to south): Sippar, Babylon, Borsippa, Nippur and Uruk. The new version of the website, hosted by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities is an expended version of the older KU Leuven iteration, with downloadable data and updated descriptions of the Neo-Babylonian archives (following Jursa, who identified c.150 such institutional and private archives). | Kathleen Abraham, Shai Gordin, Michael Jursa | 4,010 texts, 4,778 bibliographical items, 125 archives, 566 placenames | yes | Data can be downloaded as CSV and JSON formats. For those who want to cite/use the original KU Leuven ID numbers can use the mirror of the original website on the Digital Pasts Lab GitHub: https://digitalpasts.github.io/nabucco/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Databases | West Asian Seals Library | archaeology; assyriology | https://www.zotero.org/groups/2831948/westasianseals_library/library | bibliography | The West Asian Seals Library is a Zotero bibliographical resource for academic literature about seals and sealing practices in West Asia. It was accumulated by the Annotated Corpus of Ancient West Asian Imagery: Cylinder Seals (ACAWAI-CS) team, a project aimed digitally documenting and describing West Asian seals. | Elisa Roßberger | 767 bibliographical items | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Databases | Keilschriftbibliographie online | KeiBi | anatolian-studies; assyriology | https://vergil.uni-tuebingen.de/keibi/ | bibliography | The International Cuneiform Bibliography (Internationale Keilschriftbibliography - KeiBi), published in the journal Orientalia which is issued by the Papal Bible Institute since 1940, has become an indepensible aid for in research teaching and study of ancient Near Eastern studies. However, as in all printed bibliographies published over a long period of time, finding information in it is a tedious task. To ease access, the KeiBi data is integrated into a database which allows to search all volumes in parallel. | Hans Neumann | 89,632 bibliographical items | yes | Individual search results can be exported in a variety of formats | |||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Databases | Pleiades | anatolian-studies; archaeology; assyriology; classics; egyptology; semitic-studies | https://pleiades.stoa.org/home | placenams, archaeological sites | Pleiades is a linked open data initiative to gives access to scholars, students, or any interested individuals, about historical geographical data from the ancient world. All the gazetteer data is published under an open license, and the Pleiades project invites participation to enrich and improve its data. Pleiades differentiates between places, known in historical sources, to their location which has spatial coordinates (when known), and the names of those places in different periods. | Roger Bagnall, Richard Talbert, Tom Elliott | ca. 41,000 places, ca. 37,000 names, ca. 44,000 locations | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Academic Resources | Livius | anatolian-studies; archaeology; assyriology; classics; egyptology | https://www.livius.org/ | articles | Livius holds thousands of articles relating to the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The information can be browsed via a map interface or different categories and tags. Some of the content pages are translations of primary written sources, from Latin, Greek, and cuneiform languages--see through the "source" tag. | Jona Lendering | 4,381 pages; 10,700 original illustrations | yes | individual content can be downloaded, but credit and a link need to be provided | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Databases | Annotated Corpus of Luwian Texts | ACLT | anatolian-studies | http://luwian.web-corpora.net/ | texts | ACLT is a search engine and pedagogical tool for the study of Hieroglyphic Luwian texts. It shares its corpus with the eDiAna project (see below). The texts can be searched through the transliteration or transcription through form, lemma, or grammar. There is also a dictionary to browse all the attested words in the corpus. The transcription are lemmatized and include a full grammatical analysis. | Ilya Yakubovich, Timofey Arkhangelskiy | unspecified | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Databases | Digital Philological-Etymological Dictionary of the Minor Anatolian Corpus Languages | eDiAna | anatolian-studies; assyriology | https://www.ediana.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/ | texts, bibliography | eDiAna as a cooperative project that collects the first exhaustive lexical assessment of the corpus of the lesser attested ancient Anatolian languages. It is constructed of three models: a synchronic lexicon of Cuneiform Luwian, Carian, and Sidetic; a synchronic lexicon of Luwian, Hieroglyphic Luwian, Palaic, Lycian, and Pisidian (Proto-Anatolian languages); and Proto-Indo-European etymology of the minor Anatolian corpus languages. The data can be explored through the dictionary, which is a searchable list of lemmata; corpora, where lemmatized text editions are available to browse (partially overlapping with the texts available in the Annotated Corpus of Luwian Texts, ACLT, see above); and a search function for the bibliography. | Jared Miller, Elisabeth Rieken, Olav Hackstein, and others | ca. 3,200 dictionary lemmata; ca.38,100 word tokens; ca. 950 lemmatized texts; ca. 4800 bibliographical items | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Datasets | Mainz Cuneiform Benchmark Dataset for the Hilprecht Collection | MaiCuBeDa | assyriology | https://doi.org/10.11588/data/QSNIQ2 | cuneiform signs, cuneiform images | The MaiCuBeDa dataset contains annotations of cuneiform signs from 3D renderings of cuneiform tablets, taken from the HeiCuBeDa dataset (see above). The annotations were made using the W3C Web Annotation Data Model (https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/), which links between the annotation and the information on the tablet (period, genre, language) and where on the surface of the tablet the sign appears. The sign images included both bounding box cropping and polygon cropping. There are also word and line images, in which images of signs which belong to the same word or line were concatenated. This was done based on available transliterations in the CDLI database. For some of the tablets, wedge annotations were also prepared. | Hubert Mara, Timo Homburg | unspecified | yes | CC BY-SA 4.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Academic Resources | Pylon. Editions and Studies of Ancient Texts | classics; egyptology | https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/pylon/index | articles | Pylon is an open access journal for research on Greek, Latin, and Coptic texts which include new editions of documentary, literary, or subliterary papyri and corrections to previous publications. The journal also accepts general studies based on papyrological evidence. | Rodney Ast | unspecified | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Databases | Hittite Texts | anatolian-studies | https://hittitetexts.com/en | texts, lemmas | This database project was initiated in Leiden with the aim in mind to make all Hittite texts available in transliteration. Currently it holds all known texts in the Old Hittite Script (OS) from the Old Hittite period (OH) as well the Middle Hittite corpus of Maşat Höyük. One needs to register with name and email and then granted access to the texts, which can be searched and browsed, accompanied by a detailed Hittite lexicon that can be copied to a CSV file. | Alwin Kloekhorst, Willemijn Waal | 249 texts; 7,093 sentences; 22,956 words | yes | The Hittite lexicon accompaining the texts can be copied into a CSV file | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Datasets | Heidelberg Cuneiform Benchmark Dataset for the Hilprecht Collection | HeiCuBeDa | computer sceince and assyriology | https://doi.org/10.11588/data/IE8CCN | 2D and 3D images | HeiCuBeDa contains 1,988 high-resolution 3D scans of cuneiform tablets from the Hilprecht collection. For 707, the data includes pre-computed high-dimensional surface features, six-views of raster images of the tablets, and metadata, transcriptions, and transliterations. This dataset was used to create the MaiCuBeDa dataset, which includes sign annotations from these 3D models (see below). For access to single tablets see HeiCu3Da at HeidICON allowing an user-friendly access. | Hubert Mara, Bartosz Bogacz | 1,977 3D scans with rendered images (fat cross). | yes (bulk as large ZIP files) | For single files use HeiCu3Da. | CC BY-SA 4.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Datasets | Heidelberg Cuneiform 3D Database for the Hilprecht Collection | HeiCu3Da | assyriology | https://doi.org/10.11588/heidicon.hilprecht | 2D and 3D images | HeiCu3Da contains 1,988 high-resolution 3D scans of cuneiform tablets from the Hilprecht collection, as well as high resolution 2D renderings of PNGs and PDFs like HeiCuBeDa. Here the tablets are accessible via the fyler database HeidICON, which allows for searches and includes a web-based 3D-viewer. | Hubert Mara, Bartosz Bogacz | 1,977 3D scans with rendered images (fat cross). | yes (single files) | For bulk download see HeiCuBeDa and MaiCuBeDa. | CC BY-SA 4.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Databases | Papyri info | classics; egyptology | https://papyri.info/ | texts, bibliography | Papyri info holds digital scholarly edition of ancient papyri, using the EpiDoc textual markup conventions. It also provides a platform for editing and peer-reviewing scholarly edition of papyrological texts, translations, commentary, bibliography, images, and more. It is possible to search or browse the editions available. Each text is provided with a canonical URI for citation, and the editorial history is kept and displayed. | The Duke Collaboratory for Classics Computing, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World | unspecified | yes | in a TEI/XML format | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Databases | Trismegistos | classics; egyptology | https://www.trismegistos.org/ | texts, people, places | Trismegistos is a collection of several linked databases for the study of Greco-Roman Egypt. It includes digital scholarly text editions, a prospographical people database, a places database which includes toponyms from Egypt, to name a few. The focus of most databases is from 800 BCE to 800 CE. For full access, registration is required, or most universities provide institutional access. | Mark Depauw | ca. 21,600 texts; ca. 550,000 attestations of personal names; ca. 62,000 places in Egypt; ca. 234,000 toponyms in texts from Egypt | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Databases | Neo-Assyrian Bibliography | archaeology; assyriology | https://www.zotero.org/groups/277030/neo-assyrian_bibliography | bibliography | The Neo-Assyrian Bibliography is a Zenodo library with over 4,000 references to secondary sources related to the Neo-Assyrian empire. | Heather Baker | 4,359 references | yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Databases | Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalis | TLHdig | anatolian-studies | https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/TLHdig/ | texts, lemmas | A peer-reviewed repository for cuneiform text transliterations of Hittite sources. Includes an online tool that requires registration for uploading your scholarly transliterations, including work-in-progress before official publication. Texts are then citeable and can be entered through a simple markdown syntax (a.k.a SimTex), and the system parses them into XML and creates automatic annotations that require manual validation. | Gerfrid G. W. Müller, Doris Prechel, Elisabeth Rieken, Daniel Schwemer | ca. 21,000 texts | no | Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalis, hethiter.net/: TLHdig – Beta Version (2023-07-26) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Programming Resources | BabyLemmatizer | assyriology; anatolian-studies; classics | https://github.com/asahala/BabyLemmatizer | Neural POS tagger and lemmatizer for ancient cuneiform languages (and classical languages since v2.1). Previously based on TurkuNLP framework, but changed to OpenNMT from v2.1. Appraches lemmatisation as a machine translation task, works primarily on Akkadian in transliteration. | Aleksi Sahala, Krister Lindén | yes | For documentation and installation see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j11N2bsIEcuZpAzJP1wmVaWrsjd0ml3HF7K-PK0AXdQ/ | Sahala, A. J. A., & Lindén, K. (2023). "A neural pipeline for lemmatizing and POS-tagging cuneiform languages". Proceedings of the Ancient Language Processing Workshop at the 14th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing RANLP 2023, 203–212. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Databases | Cylinder seals from the ancient Near East | SESPOA | assyriology; archaeology | http://sespoa.huma-num.fr/introduction | seals, 2D and 3D images, metadata, bibliography | A project initiated by the CDLI in order to explore and research different imaging techniques for ancient Near Eastern cylinder seals and sealings, mostly kept in museum collections. Objects in the online catalogue date from the entire period of cylinder seal usage (3,300-300 BCE), and the website includes desription of the collections studied (Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford), as well as articles on seal usage, typology, manufacturing techniques and imaging procedures. A large number of seals are also imaged with animated GIFs that shows them in full 360° rotation, a low-cost and effective 3D imaging technique. There is a large bibliographical section with publications on ANE cylinder seals through the ages. | Jacob L. Dahl, Bertrand Lafont | 864 seals | yes | Each entry in the database can be downloaded seperately (no bulk download or visible API). Images can be downloaded as JPEG format in two different resolutions (1000 x 537px and 1549 x 833px) and metadata is available as plain text, XML, and RDF formats (JSON export does not have all data fields). Items are linked to their CDLI P-numbers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Databases | Vegetable Oils and Animal Fats in Early Urban Societies of Syro-Mesopotamia | i₃.MesopOil | assyriology | https://www.i3-mesop-oil.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/ | texts, metadata, lemmas, placenames | A database of mostly archival cuneiform texts and other relevant information from Mesopotamia and Syria dating between 3000-1600 BCE mentioning oils and fats. Information is conviently divided into topics, dossiers and archives, texts and glossaries of Sumerian and Akkadian lemmas, as well as an index of placenames and personal names. | Walther Sallaberger, Grégory Chambon | 551 texts, 21 archives, 72 dossiers, 58 places | yes | Each text entry in the database can be downloaded seperately as DOCX (office) format (no bulk download or visible API). | Vegetable Oils and Animal Fats in Early Urban Societies of Syro-Mesopotamia: Digital Data Collection. (Walther Sallaberger, ed.), 2020-2023. doi: 10.5282/mesopoil | ||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Academic Resources | Ancient World Online | AWOL | anatolian-studies; archaeology; assyriology; egyptology; semitic-studies | https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/ | articles, online resources, blog posts | The Ancient World Online, similarily to the DANES Resources, collates open access online resources and sources relating to the ancient World, broadly defined (from prehistory to late antiquity). It includes countless journals and academic articles, online databases and resources, and more, as part of an effort to link together all relevant information for the digital study of the ancient Near East, Mediterranean, and beyond. It is a two-time DH award winner (2015, 2021), and the successor of Abzu, making it one of the longest running online project dedicated to ancient history. | Charles E. Jones | 10,093 posts (as of 18.10.2023) | yes | The bibliographic data was collated till 2015 in the project of the AWOL Index (https://isaw.nyu.edu/publications/awol-index/). The data is available in JSON format and as HTML online (https://isaw.nyu.edu/publications/awol-index/html/index-top.html). For an updated dataset of AWOL one could potentialy adapt the Python scripts released on the project's GitHub: https://github.com/isawnyu/isaw.awol | |||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Tools | Hittite Name Finder | anatolian-studies; assyriology | https://laman.hittites.org/ | people, texts, metadata | The Hittite Name Finder is a tool aiming to facilitate the retrieval of, and research on, names in Hittite texts. Originally conceived in the frame of the DFG-funded project “Critical edition, digital publication, and systematic analysis of the Hittite cult-inventories (CTH 501-530)”, a first version coded by Eileen Xing and Hartmut Oertel was released in 2020 at https://cuneiform.neocities.org/laman/finder.html. The present version is the result of a cooperation between M. Ali Akman (Bilkent University, now Brown University) and Michele Cammarosano (University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’) and combines the general list of names with the lists of occurrences of divine and personal names as well as hyperlinks to the Hittite Toponyms (HiTop) database. | Michele Cammarosano & M. Ali Akman | >5000 individual names, >8000 occurrences | no | CC BY-SA 4.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | M. Ali Akman & Michele Cammarosano, Hittite Name Finder, https://cuneiform.neocities.org/laman/finder.html | Michele Cammarosano & M. Ali Akman | |||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Databases | Hittite Local Cults | HLC | anatolian-studies | https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/HLC/ | metadata, lemmas, placenames | The database Hittite Local Cults aims to collect selected information contained in the cult inventories corpus in a structured form, in order to allow specific, flexible queries and optimize data retrieval. One can search entities through different labelled categories (tags): Region, Town, Deity, Festival, Supplier, Personnel, and Other, as well as download a social network analysis of the data. The texts themselves are available through links to the Hethitologie Portal Mainz (see above). | Michele Cammarosano | select data from ca. 450 cuneiform tablets | yes | CSV export function; nodes, edges, and gephi files for social network analysis | CC BY-SA 4.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | Michele Cammarosano and Christoph Forster, Database 'Hittite Local Cults', https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/HLC/ | Michele Cammarosano | |||||||||||||||||||
76 | Datasets | Map of the Hittite World | MHW | anatolian-studies | https://cuneiform.neocities.org/MHW/map | placenames, archaeological sites, maps | A gazetteer of places in ancient Anatolia which is presented in interactive map. Additionally includes static maps from high-quality print publication. | Michele Cammarosano | 93 places | yes | through the Hyperlinks & coordinates tab | CC BY-SA 4.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | Michele Cammarosano, A Map of the Hittite World, https://cuneiform.neocities.org/MHW/map | Michele Cammarosano | |||||||||||||||||||
77 | Academic Resources | Archaeology of Jordan online | archaeology | https://archaeologyofjordan.mystrikingly.com/ | Archaeology of Jordan online collects links to online resources relating to past and ongoing archaeological excavations in Jordan. It includes general information, links to websites of archaeological sites (both past and current excavations), conferences, museums and institutions, photo, video, and photo archives, digital libraries, secondary publications available online, maps and atlases, and other online resources on the ancient Near East. | Francesco M. Benedettucci | about 2000 links (estimated) | no | Francesco M. Benedettucci (Independent researcher) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Databases | Ancient Inscriptions from Israel / Palestine | IIP | semitic-studies; classics; archaeology | https://www.inscriptionsisraelpalestine.org/ | metadata, texts, lemmas, bibliography | Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine (IIP) is an online database that collects all published inscriptions of Israel/Palestine beginning from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca. 500 BCE - 640 CE) freely accessible. The dataset includes almost 5,000 inscriptions, written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin, by Jews, Christians, Greeks, and Romans. Inscriptions include imperial declarations on monumental architecture, notices of donations in synagogues and names on ossuaries. Each inscription exists as a single XML file structured according to EpiDoc conventions. The database also has an interactive map display for easy contextual searches, a list of lemmas in Hebrew, Greek and Latin extracted using ML methods, an extensive Zotero bibliography, and detailed blog entries on specific interesting inscriptions or corpora. | Michael Satlow | c. 5000 texts, and thousands of bibliographic entries | yes | See epidoc files and data in the following github: https://github.com/Brown-University-Library/iip-texts; The project has an API both for texts and bibliography, see here: https://github.com/daikitag/Inscriptions-of-Israel-Palestine, and here: https://library.brown.edu/create/cds/zotero-api-web/ | Satlow, Michael L., ed. 2002 - . “Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine.” Brown University. https://doi.org/10.26300/PZ1D-ST89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Datasets | Taxonomy of Machine Learning for Ancient Languages | anatolian-studies; assyriology; classics; egyptology; semitic-studies | https://github.com/ancientml/ml-for-ancient-languages/blob/main/taxonomy/taxonomy.csv | bibliography | Computational research for studying ancient languages is far from new, but it has been gaining interest in the past few years. A taxonomy of tasks related to the computational study of ancient languages was developed by Sommerschield, Assael, Pavlopoulos et al. (see citation), grouping together articles dealing with similar research questions, but on diferent langauges. The taxonomy is based on traditional philological steps, such as digitization, restoration, translation, linguistic analysis, etc. It is also published as a CSV file on their GitHub, where the articles can be searched according to their category. | Thea Sommerschield, Yannis Assael, John Pavlopoulos, Vanessa Stefanak, Andrew Senior, Chris Dyer, John Bodel, Jonathan Prag, Ion Androutsopoulos, Nando de Freitas | 249 bibliographical references | yes | CC BY-SA 4.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | Thea Sommerschield, Yannis Assael, John Pavlopoulos, Vanessa Stefanak, Andrew Senior, Chris Dyer, John Bodel, Jonathan Prag, Ion Androutsopoulos, Nando de Freitas; Machine Learning for Ancient Languages: A Survey. Computational Linguistics 2023. https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00481 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Databases | Epigraphische Datenbank zum antiken Kleinasien | EDAK | anatolian-studies; classics | https://www.epigraphik.uni-hamburg.de/content/index.xml | texts, bibliography | The EDAK project at Hamburg university collects published Greek and Latin inscriptions found in modern Turkey. This includes inscriptions from Lydia, Galatia, Paphlagonia, Phrygia and Proseilemmene. EDAK presents the inscriptions with transliteration, a description and commentary, and map views. It also includes a bibliography with an abbreviation list. | Franziska Weise, Helmut Halfmann, Hagen Peukert, Heidi Heil | more than 6,000 inscriptions; additional inscriptions are being added | no | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Academic Resources | Hieratic Studies Online | HSO | egyptology | https://aku.uni-mainz.de/hieratic-studies-online/ | articles | Hieratic Studies Online is an open access, double-blind peer reviewed journal on all topics related to hieratic and cursive hieroglyphs. All published articles can be viewed and downloaded free of charge. Articles include, among others, text editions or updated readings of texts. | Svenja A. Gülden, Tobias Konrad, Kyra van der Moezel, Ursula Verhoeven (journal editors) | yes | CC BY-SA 4.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Datasets | Opera Latina Adnotata | OLA | classics | https://git.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/celano/latinnlp/-/tree/master | texts, linguistic annotations | Opera Latina Adnotata is the largest annotated collection of Latin texts, which are open access and scalable. It is part of a project to revise, standardize, and expand the Ancient Greek and Latin dependency treebank. The latin texts are tokenized, split into sentences, morphologically and syntactically annotated. They are available in a Paula XML format, which allows for expansion of additional layers of annotations. The dataset can be visualized and queried using Annis, see examples in http://ola.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/en/annis.html. | Giuseppe G. A. Celano | 316 files, 6,755,191 tokens, and 411,329 sentences | yes | explanations are on the GitLab repository page | CC BY-SA 4.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Datasets | Fast(Text) Analysis of Mesopotamian Divine Names | assyriology | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7494289 | texts, vectors, visualizations | This dataset was created as part of an article, see under citation. It includes word embeddings generated using FastText on Neo-Assyrian texts available through ORACC, as well as lists of most similar words to deities' names, and visualizations of the results which show connections between divinities in network graph form. | Heidi Jauhiainen, Tero Alstola | 5056 texts used to create vector word embeddings | yes | the data is available through Zenodo and thorugh a GitHub repository: https://github.com/anee-helsinki/Asor_EPHE-PSL/tree/master | CC BY-SA 3.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Jauhiainen, H., & Alstola, T. (2023) Fast(Text) Analysis of Mesopotamian Divine Names. Juloux, di Ludovico, and Matskevich (eds.), The Ancient World Goes Digital. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004527119_007 | |||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Dictionaries and Abbreviations | eHammurabi | assyriology | https://ehammurabi.com/ | texts | eHammurabi includes a side-by-side online publication of the Law Code of Hammurabi: a hand-copy of the stele of Hammurabi, transliteration, normalization, and translation, taken from various academic sources. It is funded by the OMNIKA foundation (https://omnika.org/info/about), a non-profit organization to digitize materials relating to world's mythological contents. | Boban Dedović | Almost all the laws of Hammurabi | no | Dedović, Boban. "eHammurabi.com: A case study on developing user-friendly digital tools for complex ancient languages like Akkadian." Preprint. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago, 2023. [DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.23092748] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Databases | Nineveh Tablet Collection | assyriology | https://fincke-cuneiform.com/nineveh/index.htm | metadata, text joins, summaries | The Nineveh Tablet Collection includes two main sections: the Nineveh Joins and Babylonian Nineveh Texts. The Nineveh Joins provide information on every join of cuneiform-bearing artifacts from Nineveh that are currently housed in the British Museum. The Babylonian Nineveh Texts include metadata and summaries for these objects. Texts can be searched via registration numbers or via categories (textual genres). | Jeanette C. Fincke | unspecified | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Tools | Enmerkar | 𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸 | assyriology | https://github.com/eggrobin/Enmerkar#𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸 | 𒂗𒈨𒅕𒃸 (en-me-er-kár, Enmerkar) is a Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform input method for macOS and Windows. It allows users to enter cuneiform characters in any text editor program or input interface, just like any other language keyboard. As you type a transliteration value, a pop-up window will appear with cuneiform character options, which you then choose by pressing enter. | Robin Leroy | yes | See README.md. | MIT license | https://github.com/eggrobin/Enmerkar/blob/master/LICENSE | Robin Leroy | ||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Databases | MORTEXVAR | egyptology | http://database.mortexvar.com/ | texts | The MORTEXVAR database (beta version) collects data on ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts to digitise them, analyse them and make them accessible. The data have been extracted from two sources: the reference edition of these texts by Adriaan de Buck (1935-1961) and the Index of spells by Leonard Lesko (1979). The current MORTEXVAR database (beta version) gives you free access to the following: the texts transliteration and (partial) French translation; all the 1,185 Coffin Text spells in their “main” version, usually the first from the left in the edition by the Buck. The versions from the rest of the witnesses will be added in the future; the witnesses (text instances) with their provenance and chronology; the spells' position in the coffins. The future MORTEXVAR database will include the following: complete transliteration and translation of all witnesses of the Coffin Texts edited by De Buck; annotation (lexical and grammatical); linking to the (image capture/encoding) OCR-PT-CT project at Universidad de Alcalá; linking to the hieroglyphic edition by De Buck. | Carlos Gracia Zamacona | 1185 text units (spells) - 27,160 text lines - 320 documents with their provenance and chronology - 1186 entries of spells' position in the coffins | yes | Downloadable from the website in csv format. | CC BY-NC 4.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | The MORTEXVAR database (http://database.mortexvar.com), edited by C. Gracia Zamacona (2022-). | Carlos Gracia Zamacona | ||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Databases | Database of Early Dynastic inscriptions | egyptology | https://www1.ivv1.uni-muenster.de/litw3/Aegyptologie/index06.htm | texts, metadata | This Database assembles Early Dynastic Egyptian inscriptions from the first attestation of writing in tomb U-j (Naqada IIIA1, ca. 3,250 BCE) until the earliest known continuous text from the reign of Djoser (ca. 2,700 BCE). It includes a search function and an index for the object's periods, kings, sites, regions, locality, type, and depository. The database is based on the data collected for the book <i>A Palaeographic Study of Early Writing in Egypt</i>, 2010 (OLA 195), by Ilona Regulski. | Ilona Regulski, Erhart Graefe | more than 4,500 inscriptions | no | Ilona Regulski, Online Database of Early Dynastic inscriptions, GM 219 (2008), 79-87 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Datasets | Cuneiform Digital Palaeography Project | CDP | assyriology | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11647 | sign images | Cuneiform Digital Palaeography was a joint project by an interdisciplinary team at the University of Birmingham and the British Museum to create a first detailed palaeography for the cuneiform writing system. Its purpose was to create an online database for digital images of individual cuneiform signs, taken from 2D color images of cuneiform signs. While the online website is no longer maintained, the 10,610 sign instances they have collected are available through Zenodo and GitHub, along with the web development code for the latest released version of the CDP. Articles published in this project can be found at https://research.birmingham.ac.uk/en/datasets/cuneiform-digital-palaeography-project. | Alasdair Livingstone, Tom Davis | 10,610 instances of cuneiform signs | yes | MIT License | https://opensource.org/license/mit/ | Stephan Hügel. (2014). Cuneiform Digital Palaeography Project (CDPP) v0.2 (v0.2). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11647 | |||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Databases | Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae | TLA | egyptology | https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/home | texts, lemmata, metadata | The Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae is the largest online database of lemmatized Egyptian texts written in hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic, from temples and tombs, stelae, papyri, ostraca, and more. It maintains a text corpus and a lemma list, both of which are searchable. Text, lemmata, and metadata maintain controlled vocabularies, available to view under "Thesauri". The TLA was initiated as a project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, under the name “Altägyptisches Wörterbuch” (AAeW, 1992–2012). It is also possible to browse the corpus in the previous website (https://aaew.bbaw.de/tla/index.html). The corpus is still expanding and more texts are being added. | Tonio Sebastian Richter, Daniel A. Werning, Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert, Peter Dils | 1.49 million lemma tokens (Hieroglyphic/hieratic: 1,159,000, Demotic: 328,000) | yes | Available in json format in huggingface: earlier Egyptian available at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae/tla-Earlier_Egyptian_original-v18-premium; Demotic available at: https://huggingface.co/datasets/thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae/tla-demotic-v18-premium. | CC BY-NC 4.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.2, 11/24/2023, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning on behalf of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils on behalf of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig (accessed: 12/26/2023) | Eliese-Sophia Lincke | |||||||||||||||||||
91 | Databases | Coptic Scriptorium | egyptology | https://copticscriptorium.org/ | texts, lemmata, metadata, tools | This is an all-in-one platform for the computational study of Coptic texts. It includes five main sections: corpora, for reading and browsing the text in the database, some of which have translations in addition to diplomatic editions; an online coptic dictionary; an NLP service with an online interface to process Coptic texts into different formats; the ANNIS database for simple and complex searches of the database, for which there are tutorials and a cheat sheet; and a suite of tools, such as entity visualization online, the coptic NLP API, POS tagging, Normalizer, Lemmatizer, the Coptic Universal Dependency Treebank, and more. | Caroline T. Schroeder and Amir Zeldes | over 1,278,500 tokens of searchable, linguistically analyzed Coptic data from dozens of ancient Coptic works | yes | Through GitHub in multiple formats: CoNLL-U, relANNIS, PAULA XML, TEI XML, and TreeTagger SGML: https://github.com/CopticScriptorium/corpora; most texts have a CC-BY-SA 3 or 4 copyright, individual files contain licensing information. | CC-BY-SA 4.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | Eliese-Sophia Lincke | |||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Databases | Zodiac | assyriology; classics; egyptology; semitic-studies | https://zodiac.fly.dev/ | lemmata | The Zodiac database is a cross-cultural glossary of ancient astral science. It collects astral terms attested in textual sources from ca. 400 BCE to 300 CE, in all relevant languages for the ancient Near East: Akkadian, Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Sanskrit. The website has a search function with utility keyboards for the special characters of each language. Results show relevant information on the astral terms, including translation and meaning, quotations from textual sources, cross links, and external links. It is possible to sign up to contribute to the project. | Mathieu Ossendrijver, Christian Casey | unspecified | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Databases | Tracking Colour: Polychromy of the ancient world | classics | https://www.trackingcolour.com/ | images, metadata | The project website displays data collected on the original pigments found on artifacts from the ancient world, specifically Greece and Rome. The data was collected using various techniques such as Ultra Violet Fluorescence (UVF), Infra Red Reflectography (IRR), Visible-Induced (infrared) Luminescence (VIL), Multi-band reflectance (MBR), X-Ray Fluorescence spectrometry (XRF), Scanning Electron Microscopy / Energy-Dispersive X-Ray spectroscopy (SEM/EDX), Scanning Electron Microscopy / X-Ray Diffraction (SEM / XRD), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS), Liquid Chromotopgrahy–Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS), Raman Laser Spectroscopy, X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy (XRF; including portable XRF), and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS, for isotopic analysis). Entries include summaries of the found pigments, description of object, methods used, bibliography, and sometimes images. | Cecilie Brøns, Jens Stenger | 168 objects | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Databases | Gardens of the Roman Empire | GRE | classics | https://roman-gardens.github.io/home/ | images, metadata, GIS coordinates | The Gardens of the Roman empire is an expanded, digital version of <i>Gardens of Pompeii (1979-1993)</i> (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/799117144). The website hosts a collection of datapoints on gardens from the Roman empire, covering Judea to Britannia. For each entry, the data includes the province, location, sublocation, keywords, description, figures, dates, excavation date, and bibliography. The project follows LOD standards whenever possible. Among others, they implement Pleiades IDs for GIS coordinates. They include a map interface, search function, and keywords. | Wilhelmina Jashemski, Kathryn Gleason, Kim J. Hartswick, Amina-Aïcha Malek, Christian Casey, David M. Ratzan, Sebastian Heath, Keith Jenkins, Gabriel McKee | unspecified | yes | through their GitHub repository: https://github.com/roman-gardens/gre | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Databases | Polychrome Hieroglyph Research Project | egyptology | https://www.phrp.be/index.html | images, metadata, signs | The Egyptian hieroglyphic script sometimes used colors. This project shows that there was a polychrome canon in use from the Old Kingdom to the Ptolemaic period. The website contains over 3,500 examples of signs, that can be accessed and viewed via the groups, signs, monuments, periods, or colors catalogs. Each sign includes an image, a unique ID, and the reference to the text it came from. The website also hosts additional information: a discussion on the paleography of the signs, a diachronic study of the polychrome signs, and a bibliography. | David Nunn | unspecified | no | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Programming Resources | Text-Fabric | tf | assyriology; classics; semitic-studies | https://annotation.github.io/text-fabric/tf/index.html | texts | Text-fabric is a python module for analyzing textual sources computationally. It converts texts from multiple sources (plain texts, OCR output, databases, XML, TEI) into structured column files and provides a suite of functions to access the structured data. It was designed particularly with ancient texts in mind: it includes several corpora for initial exploration and study, which includes Akkadian texts from various periods, Hebrew Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls, Greek Septuagint and New Testament, and ancient Greek literature, to name a few. The documentation includes a cheat sheet and tutorials for the main corpora with examples of the type of information that can be extracted from the sources. | Dirk Roorda | yes | Dirk Roorda, Cody Kingham, Camil Staps, & The Gitter Badger. (2022). annotation/text-fabric: For tool registry (v10.2.4). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7067373 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Academic Resources | Construction KIT: a review journal for research tools and data services in the humanities | CKIT | archaeology; classics | https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ckit | articles | Construction KIT: a review journal for research tools and data services in the humanities (CKIT) is a open-access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes academic reviews of tools and data services that are relevant for research in the humanities. The main objective of the journal is to value the development of research tools and data services as academic work. These reviews therefore enable researchers to identify suitable software, and developers to find research tools and data services to build upon in their practice. This allows CKIT to bridge the gap between software related journals in the computer science domain, and forums that recommend applications for their specific research domains in the humanities. Reviews are published as soon as their evaluation process has been completed. | Lisa Dieckmann, Maria Effinger, Anne Klammt, Daniel Röwenstrunk, Fabian Offert (journal editors) | yes | CC BY-SA 4.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Databases | Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021 | IRT2021 | classics | https://irt2021.inslib.kcl.ac.uk/ | texts, metadata, images | This online publication makes available 1,618 primarily Latin inscriptions from Roman Tripolitania. It is a repulication of the Inscriptions of Roman Triplitania 2009, which has been archived. The new version provides a new interface and additional inscriptions that have been published since then. In addition to viewing editions of the inscriptions, which include interpretive and diplomatic editions, there are English translations and metadata as to the physical description and find spots of the objects and dates of composition, as well as images. There is also a search function and several indices for abbrevations, people, places, findspots, and more. | Charlotte Roueché, Gabriel Bodard, Irene Vagionakis | 1,618 text editions | yes | On the Inscriptions page, there is a link to download a Zip file which includes all documents in EpiDoc XML format. The software used for this website is available in a GitHub repository: https://github.com/IRT2021/IRT-EFES | CC BY-SA 4.0 | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ | |||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Academic Resources | Artefacts: Scientifc Illustration & Archaeological Reconstruction | : Artefacts | archaeology; assyriology; classics; egyptology | https://www.artefacts-berlin.de/ | 3D reconstructions, animations | This resource provides reconstructions and illustrations of important archaeological sites, buildings, and artefacts. The formats of reconstructions are 3D models, animations, and web prints. Their purpose is to provide educational and scientific materials through informative graphics, that allow for testing hypotheses about 3D archaeological objects that are otherwise difficult to answer. Their portfolio includes sites and artefacts from the entire geographical and chronological span of the ancient Near East. Their work is free to use for educators, see further details under Copyright below. | Sandra Grabowski, Sebastian Hageneuer | no | See Copyright below. | See their About using our work page | https://www.artefacts-berlin.de/about-using-our-work/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Databases | Topos Text | classics | https://topostext.org/ | texts, places, people | A linked open data collection of works in Ancient Greek up to the 2<sup>nd</sup> century CE, Topos Text combines English translations of the sources (sometimes with the original in Greek or a link to the original) with places, people, and time periods. On the text view, the period discussed on each paragraph is indicated below it, and geographical and people's names are linked and open a map view of the location with additional information, or a list of all the texts in the corpus where the individuals are attested, respectively. One can also browse or search places, people, or within the texts. Most of the translations come from older publications that are already in the public domain, and are not meant to represent the most up-to-date interpretations of the texts. The emphasis of Topos Text is to connect between ancient texts and mapped places. One can view the source on the websipte or in their free mobile application. | Takis Panagiotopoulos, Christina Plemmenou, Dimitra Chouliara, Vlasis Kosmas | 809 texts; 6,986 mapped places with 257,000 tagged references; 15,694 proper names with 404,800 tagged references | yes | See under Tools->Downloads. The Places gazetteers are downloaded in multiple formats, as well as the metadata of the texts using Dublin Core linked data conventions. |