[First posted in AWOL 12 August 2023, updated 20 September 2025]
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.
Library
- The translation is now displayed in parallel columns: see e.g. IM.67692
- A simplified view of editions has been implemented, under URL +
/html, e.g. https://www.ebl.lmu.de/library/K.3/html
- Its purpose is to enable other projects to embed fragments from eBL in external sites.
- In the simplified view, all languages are shown by default, which can be limited to a single language with a URL parameter
?lang=followed by a 2-character language code, e.g.,enfor English andarfor Arabic.- A new interface for lemmatising, based on best practices in Computer Linguistics, has been implemented. The new interface should speed up the process of lemmatising considerably. See the small introduction here.
- A new interface for annotating entity types has been implemented.
- New photos:
- Some 120 photos of Nippur (IM.58477–61464) and Ur (IM.136452–136942) tablets in the Iraq Museum have been imported.
- Some 1000 photos from the British Museum’s Babylonian (BM.13433–14302) and Sippar Collections (BM.49480–50937) have been uploaded.
- The import of 5600 newly registered British Museum fragments has been finished (these are now labelled as “Newly Registered Fragments Collection”):
- 1876,1117.2628–2811
- 1880,0617.1959–3001
- 1880,1112.2174–2638
- 1881,0324.369–442
- 1881,0728.261–387
- 1881,083.932–1031
- 1881,1103.1967–2116.bis
- 1884,0211.599–946
- 1959,0414.93–125
- 2023,6003.2–815
- 2024,6004.1–401
- F.1–235.A
- K.22304–23196
- Rm.1117–1341
- Rm-IV.542–824
- Sp.660–825
- Sp-II.1087–1172
- Sp-III.836–938
- New folios:
- The Folios Aaboe and Britton, kindly made available by John Steele, have been added to the Library.
- The Library now shows links to the About page on the Folio tabs.
- Collections:
- The Ashmolean Museum’s cuneiform collection has been imported.
Corpus
- A Latin translation of the Dialogue of Pessimism (Sarabia 2024) has been added
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