ePSD2 Public Beta 4: The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary

ePSD2 Public Beta 4 (built 2019-02-21)

Welcome to the new version of the electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary, ePSD2. Here we provide listings of over 12,000 Sumerian words, phrases and names, occurring in almost 100,000 distinct forms a total of over 2.27 million times in the corpus of texts indexed for the Dictionary. The corpus covers, directly or indirectly, about 100,000 of the 134,000+ known Sumerian texts.

ePSD2 is organized as a glossary with a collection of subprojects providing the corpora. You can browse the subprojects and their individual glossaries, or you can work with the entire ePSD2 glossary and corpus by using the top-level ePSD2 project.

ePSD2 is a work in progress. See the News page for what changes between the releases, and see the What's Next? page for some of the things we are planning.

Here's a list of the things you can find here:

Glossaries and Tools

• ePSD2 glossary
• ePSD2 Emesal glossary
• ePSD2 Names glossary
• ePSD2 Index to the Sumerian Secondary Literature
• ePSD2 corpus of lemmatized texts; search the entire lemmatized corpus here
• an ePSD2 version of the ePSD1 table of contents matrix interface
• ePSD2 Signlist

Sub-corpora

• ePSD2/CDLI ED IIIa administrative texts
• ePSD2/CDLI ED IIIb administrative texts
• ePSD2/CDLI Ebla administrative texts
• ePSD2/CDLI Old Akkadian administrative texts
• ePSD2/CDLI Lagash II administrative texts
• ePSD2/CDLI Ur III administrative texts
• ePSD2 Ur III Legal texts
• ePSD2 Ur III Letters
• ePSD2/CDLI Old Babylonian administrative texts
• ePSD2 Royal Inscriptions
• ePSD2/Sumerian literature
• ePSD2 Incantations