SunoikisisDC: Working with Cuneiform texts
- Event type
- Research Training
- Series
- Digital classics
- Address
- Online
- Event dates
- Contact
- Classics@sas.ac.uk Email only please
Speakers: Seraina Nett (Copenhagen University), Émilie Pagé-Perron (University of York), Rune Rattenborg (Lund University), Katharine Shields (King's College London)
Sunoikisis Digital Classics session 7
Cuneiform is a writing system used for over 3000 years to record texts in multiple languages over a wide geographical area. This session gives an overview of digital resources for the study of cuneiform texts, and then introduces the most important databases and platforms relating to cuneiform studies, and the application of digital methods to cuneiform texts. In particular, the session focuses on the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative which has so far catalogued over 350,000 artefacts, including metadata, photographs, and transliterations, and demonstrates various functions of this database. Students have the opportunity to try out the search functions and investigate the metadata.
Follow live or later at: https://youtu.be/QnQBRC_mzEQ
Further information, readings and exercise at: https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2024-2025/wiki/7-Cuneiform-Texts
