The Electronic Babylonian Literature (eBL) Project started in April 2018 at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich thanks to the generous support of a Sofja Kovalevskaja Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Fundation. The goal of the project is to bring Babylonian literature to the point of what can currently be reconstructed. Moreover, it aims to make accessible a large mass of transliterations of fragments of cuneiform tablets and a tool to allow scholars to search it quickly, thus providing a lasting solution to the abiding problem of the fragmentary character of Mesopotamian Literature.
Fragmentarium
- Records for all tablets from Ur have been created, including photographs of approximately 5,000 tablets previously loaned to the British Museum and now housed in the Iraq Museum. Notable discoveries among them include a school colophon model specifying that an apprentice should “crumble” a tablet into a container after writing it (U.3018) and a variant version of the Sumerian King List (U.33271).
- Folios
- Notebook IX of G. Smith (Bilinguals) has been added.
- Folios by Jussi Aro (courtesy of Sanna Aro-Valjus) have been added. They contain finished copies of some 50 extispicy texts, mostly Old Babylonian manuscripts and Neo-Assyrian extispicy reports.
- The new Permissions tab in the text editor allows control over who can access an edition. For example, checking
Restrict it to users with CAIC permissionslimits access to CAIC project members. This enables private editing until the editor is ready to publish the edition.- Editors are kindly requested to add the label
@colophonto their editions, since this enables the automatic retrieval of all colophons in the database.Tools
- A new display of signs in sign search has been implemented: Now similar beginnings and endings are suggested for Neo-Babylonian and Neo-Assyrian scripts. See also the new section “Sign Order” in About > Signs.
Corpus
- New text added: III.13, Macranthropic Hymn to Ninurta (with two new manuscripts).
- The eBL Lab notes in last year’s Kaskal have been published (see here).
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May 14, 2024Nr. 15
February 4, 2024Nr. 14
November 6, 2023Nr. 13
June 21, 2023Nr. 12
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July 25, 2022Nr. 8
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March 1, 2022Nr. 6
October 14, 2021Nr. 5
July 9, 2021Nr. 4
June 8, 2021Nr. 3
April 7, 2021Nr. 2
February 5, 2021Nr. 1
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