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 Babylonian letters (1900-1600 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.
- Auday 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N.B.: Releases of this repo have been archived at Zenodo.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.
- 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 thoroughly checked.
- 2018-01-25 First discussion of converting the Old Babylonian letter corpus when Dirk was visiting Cale in Birmingham.