Showing posts with label catalogues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catalogues. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Cuneiform Digital Library: link and updates


The Cuneiform Digital Library is an initiative of the University of California at Los Angeles and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and is supported by an international group of Assyriologists and museum curators.  Catalogue records for and images of the cuneiform tablets housed in museums across the USA, Europe and the Middle East have been made available to view. Currently over 246,000 items have been catalogued

Recent projects involve:
  • the digitization of the 61 items in the Kalamazoo Valley Museum Collection

  • the digitization of 42 items from the Saint Louis Art Museum 
http://tinyurl.com/3bodcdu

    Friday, 14 January 2011

    ARCHIBAB: new open-access database



    ARCHIBAB is a database from the Archives Babyloniennes in Paris
    It currently gives access to some 2,300 documents, most accompanied by transcripts (blue hyper-linked text). at present, documents from Mari form the core of the collection, with over 400 texts from Ur and Larsa, about 100 from Isin and Nippur and 100 from the two Sippurs.
    Content is in French, and it is updated every 3 months.
    You need to "accept terms and conditions" before entering the database


    Tuesday, 14 December 2010

    SEAL Project (Sources of Early Akkadian Literature)

    Leipzig University has just relaunched the SEAL (Sources of Early Akkadian Literature) project website. This is a detailed catalogue of over 300 Akkadian and bilingual texts from Old Akkadian to the Middle Babylonian / Middle Assyrian periods.
    The catalogue is arranged thematically and is completely searchable. It indicates where the tablets are held. Unfortunately, copyright restrictions mean very few records are supplied with illustrations of the tablets