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 texts of the Nineveh Medical Encyclopedia (ca. 800 BCE).
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.
- Dirk Roorda at DANS
- J. Cale Johnson at the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums, Freie Universität Berlin
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- 2022-02-10 Improved conversion results, encoding decisions are now in better agreement with Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian
- 2022-02-06 First conversion result delivered as fully functional TF corpus.