Amarna Roundup

Monday, October 31, 2011

Amarna Roundup

It is good to see the Madrid database of Berlin Amarna tablet photographs, Las tablillas de El Amarna en el Vorderasiatisches Museum de Berlín, online since the 1990s, getting well deserved attention in ancient oriented news blogs. It is always worthwhile supporting projects providing open access to scholarly resources.

Scholarly editions of the Amarna texts are published in transliteration in the Amarna Corpus, a component of Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. Shlomo Izre'el's transliteration of the Amarna corpus is at The Amarna Tablets. All of this is also open access.

Readers interested more generally in Amarna may also wish to examine Barry Kemp's Virtual Amarna Project, openly published in October by the Archaeology Data Service, and some archival video footage of 1930s excavations at Amarna published online by the Egypt Exploration Society.

And see the Amarna Virtual Museum

Amarna in Pleiades

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AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

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