The Poor Man of Nippur - World's first film in Babylonian

The Poor Man of Nippur - World's first film in Babylonian

"The Poor Man of Nippur" is a c. 3,000 year-old comic folk tale in Babylonian language. The main manuscript is a clay tablet from 701 BC found at the site of Sultantepe, in South-East Turkey. Recounted by a third-party narrator, it tells the story of the three-fold revenge which Gimil-Ninurta wreaks on the local Mayor after the latter wrongs him. The film version of this ancient text is a creation of Cambridge Assyriology, and (as far as we know) the world's first film in Babylonian. The film was acted by Assyriology students and other members of the Cambridge Mesopotamian community. Shooting locations were in several Cambridge Colleges, King's Parade, The British Museum, Flag Fen Archaeological Park, and countryside near Grantchester. The project was funded by The Philological Society, The Thriplow Charitable Trust, The Judith Wilson Fund, The CHW Johns Fund for Assyriology, St John's College, Trinity College, The Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas, and The London Centre for the Ancient Near East. Find out more about ancient Mesopotamia and Cambridge Assyriology at: https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/about-us/mesopotamia/mesopotamia-history

Open Access Journal: The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research (AASOR)

The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research (AASOR)

In his blog Bill Carraher, incoming editor of the Annual of ASOR, is beginning to reflect on the past and future of the Annual. As a part of that, he has assembled links to open access (and some less open access) copies of the Annual. I am repeating his list here:

The first 20-some volumes of AASOR are available for free download various places (with some obviously in the public domain):

The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1919/1920, vol. 1 (jstor, Hathi Trust, Google books).
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1921/1922, vol 2/3 (jstor)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1922/1923, vol. 4 (jstor, Hathi Trust, Archive.org)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1923/1924, vol. 5 (Hathi Trust, Archive.org)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1924/1925, vol. 6 (Hathi Trust)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1925/1926, vol. 7 (Hathi Trust)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1926/1927, vol. 8 (Hathi Trust, Archive.org)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1927/1928, vol. 9 (Hathi Trust, Archive.org)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1927/1928, vol. 10 (Hathi Trust, Archive.org)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1929/1930, vol. 11 (Hathi Trust, Archive.org)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1930/1931, vol. 12 (Hathi Trust, Archive.org)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1931/1932, vol. 13 (Archive.org)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1933/1934, vol. 14 (Archive.org)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1934/1935, vol. 15 (Hathi Trust, Archive.org)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1935/1936, vol. 16 (Hathi Trust, Archive.org)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1936/1937, vol. 17 (Hathi Trust, Archive.org)
Explorations in Eastern Palestine, III, vol. 18/19 (Hathi Trust, Archive.org)
Introduction to Hurrian, vol. 20 (Hathi Trust)
The Excavation of Tell Beit Mirsim. Vol. III: The Iron Age 1941 – 1943, vol. 21/22 (Not Available)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1943/1944, vol. 23 (Hathi Trust)
The annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 1944/1945, vol. 24 (Hathi Trust) 

After volume 24, things get a bit more irregular, with the exception of volume 32/33:

The excavation at Herodian Jericho, 1951, vol. 32/33 (Hathi Trust)

Things get better again, however, after volume 55:

Preliminary excavation reports and other archaeological investigations : Tell Qarqur, Iron I sites in the North-Central highlands of Palestine, vol. 56 (Hathi Trust)
Across the Anatolian plateau : readings in the archaeology of ancient Turkey, vol. 57 (Not Available)
The Near East in the southwest : essays in honor of William G. Dever, vol. 58 (Hathi Trust)
Results of the 2001 Kerak Plateau Early Bronze Age survey AND Two early alphabetic inscriptions from the Wadi el-Ḥôl: new evidence for the origin of the alphabet from the western desert of Egypt, vol. 59 (Hathi Trust)
The archaeology of difference : gender, ethnicity, class and the “other” in antiquity : studies in honor of Eric M. Meyers, vol. 60/61 (Hathi Trust)
The middle Bronze Age IIA cemetery at Gesher : final report, vol. 62 (Hathi Trust) 
Views from Phlamoudhi, Cyprus, vol. 63 (Hathi Trust)

The three most recent volumes (64, 65, and 68) are only available via Jstor with a subscription. All in all, 27 of the 66 published volumes are available for free download (and a few more can be viewed at Hathi Trust, but not downloaded). This is something that should be easy enough to sort out and it would be outstanding to try to get all 66 volumes of AASOR available for free download by 2020 (or at least those still not generating some income for ASOR).

I am including it in AWOL's full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

because, well, it is an annual, but it could just as easily have been included in
AWOL's Alphabetical List of Open Access Monograph Series in Ancient Studies

Now Online: Mélanges Dominique Barthélemy: Études bibliques offertes a l'occasion de son 60e anniversaire

Newly added to Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis Online. There are 305 volumes of this series now online open access.

Mélanges Dominique Barthélemy: Études bibliques offertes a l'occasion de son 60e anniversaire. Edited by: Casetti, Pierre; Keel, Othmar; Schenker, Adrian (1981). Fribourg, Switzerland / Göttingen, Germany: Éditions Universitaires / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN: 2-8271-0197-1.

See also: Open Access Monograph Series: Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Seties Archaeologica

Online Database of Egyptian Early Dynastic inscriptions

[First posted in AWOL 19 September 2011, updated 27 Novdember 2018 (links fixed)]

Database of Early Dynastic inscriptions
By Ilona Regulski

The current database assembles all available Early Dynastic inscriptions, covering the first attestations of writing discovered in tomb U-j (Naqada IIIA1, ca. 3250 BC) until the earliest known continuous written text in the reign of Netjerikhet–more commonly known as Djoser (ca. 2700 BC).[1] The database originated as a computerized Access document containing the collection of sources on which the author’s publication “A Palaeographic Study of Early Writing in Egypt” was based.[2] The latter was kindly reformed into a web compatible application by Prof. Erhart Graefe, former head of the Department of Egyptology and Coptology at the Westfalische-Wilhelms Universität, Münster, Germany, which hosts the database. I wish to express my sincere gratitude to him. Additional information on bibliography, reading and interpretation of signs and whereabouts of the inscriptions have kindly been provided by: Eva-Maria Engel, Annelies Bleeker, Catherine Jones, Kathryn Piquette, the students of the third MA semester 2012-2013 from the FU Berlin (Stephanie Bruck, Dominik Ceballos Contreras, Viktoria Fink, Stephan Hartlepp, Ingo Küchler, Soukaina Najjarane, Niklas Schneeweiß, Melanie Schreiber, Dina Serova, Elisabeth Wegner).[3]

The database contains more then 4500 inscriptions and is constantly updated. Each inscription was assigned a source number. The source list, published by J. Kahl in Das System der ägyptischen Hieroglyphenschrift in der 0.-3. Dynastie, 171-417, was the point of departure.[4] The sequence of the Kahl list is chronological but this could not be followed when new sources were added as they were found. About 700 sources could be added to his collection starting with number 4000. Multiple impressions from the same cylinder seal were incorporated as one source since they are copies of one inscription.

A Trilingual Manuscript of the New Testament in Digital Research

A Trilingual Manuscript of the New Testament in Digital Research
[ Web Book ]
by Sara Schulthess
with contributions by Anastasia Chasapi and Martial Sankar

The research question of HumaReC is to inquiry, from the test-case of the edition of an unique trilingual Greek, Latin and Arabic New Testament manuscript, how Humanities research is reshaped and transformed by the digital rhythm of data production and publication. We have created a Virtual Research Environment that includes a manuscript viewer and where we share continuously our research.
The present web book synthesises the results of our research. It is a work in progress.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Part I - Introduction
• 1. The starting point, a previous project: The Arabic Manuscripts of the Letters of Paul of Tarsus (2013-2016)
• 2. The next step: HumaReC (2016-2018)
• Part II - The Platform
• 3. Manuscript transcription and visualization
• ---- 3.1 The manuscript viewer: work with EVT
• ---- 3.2 Annotation tool
• ---- 3.3 Towards handwritten text recognition
• 4. Interactions and users
• ---- 4.1 On the platform
• ---- 4.2 Social media
• 5. Continuous publication
• ---- 5.1 On the platform: blog and transcriptions
• ---- 5.2 Consolidation with the Web book
• 6. Reception and limitations
• Part III - The Manuscript
• 7. The object
• ---- 7.1.Codicological and paleographical features
• ---- 7.2 Remarks about the production context
• 8. The text of the letters of Paul
• ---- 8.1 Preliminary remarks
• ---- 8.2 The Greek text
• ---- 8.3 The Latin text
• ---- 8.4 The Arabic text
• ---- 8.5 Mutual influences
• ---- 8.6 New clues for the Pauline exegesis
• 9. About the use of the codex
• Part IV - Conclusion
• Acknowledgement
• Bibliography

• Home
• Manuscript Viewer
• Blog
• Forum
• Outputs
• Web Book

ARCHIBAB News: November 2018

ARCHIBAB News: November 2018

Les nouveautés de novembre sont très abondantes, puisqu'il n'y a pas eu de mise à jour en mars et en juin, en raison des modifications en cours de la structure

HIGEOMES
La base ARCHIBAB s'est dotée d'un nouvel onglet « HIGEOMES », qui
permet d'avoir accès aux données sur la toponymie de la
Haute-Mésopotamie à l'époque paléo-babylonienne, grâce au travail de
l'équipe des projets HIGEOMES, puis TEXTELSEM, dirigée à Paris par
Nele Ziegler, en collaboration avec E. Cancik-Kirscbaum (FU Berlin) et
A. Otto (LMU Munich). Une présentation détaillée est donnée dans un
document PDF particulier. L'avantage est d'avoir accès direct aux
publications du projet, aux bases de données dédiées, à des cartes
dont certaines interactives ; mais aussi aux données des textes
constamment mises à jour (alors que le livre MTT I/1 reflète l'état
des publications en 2016).

 PHOTOS
Dans le cadre du projet PSL-Digibarchi, F. Nebiolo a traité les photos
du volume de N. Ziegler FM 4.

 La table BIBLIO compte désormais 4948 fiches. Il faut noter la
publication récente de 221 textes nouveaux dans A. George, Old
Babylonian Texts in the Schøyen Collection, Part One. Selected
Letters, CUSAS 36, Philadelphie, 2018 [221 tablettes], qui seront
prochainement intégrés dans la base.

 La table TEXTES compte désormais 19207 fiches, soit 57,6 % du corpus.
Pas moins de 743 textes ont été ajoutés ces derniers mois.

Nouveautés (219 textes)

– K. Abraham & K. Van Lerberghe, A Late Old Babylonian Temple Archive
from Dūr-Abieshuḫ, the Sequel (with the assistance of Gabriella Voet
and Hendrik Hameeuw), CUSAS 29, Philadelphie, 2017 (206 tablettes)
[KvL et DC]

– de Boer RA 111, 2017 (12 textes) [RdB et DC]

– Farber et Wilent, NABU 2018/44 (1 texte : A 33639) [DC]

Travail rétrospectif (524 textes)

Dans le cadre du projet EcritUr, 306 textes ont été édités :

Textes issus des fouilles de Woolley :

– B. Fiette a édité 111 textes : les 16 textes de la maison de Church
Lane 1 (Ur/AH Church Lane 1/?/?), les 54 textes de Church Lane 2 (5
dossiers : Ur/AH Church Lane 2/début du règne de Rim-Sin/Ṭab-ilišu ;
Ur/AH Church Lane 2/milieu du règne de Rim-Sin/Apil-Kittim ; Ur/AH
Church Lane 2/milieu du règne de Rim-Sin/Mar-erṣetim et Ya'a ; Ur/AH
Church Lane 2/première moitié règne de Rim-Sin/Iddin-Ea et Ibni-Ea ;
Ur/AH Church Lane 2/?/textes divers) ainsi que les 41 textes des
archives de Dumuzi-gamil (Ur/AH Niche Lane 3/Rim-Sin/Archives
Dumuzi-gamil).

– A. Jacquet a édité les textes de Figulla Iraq 15 (61 textes).

Par ailleurs, 134 textes supplémentaires provenant d'Ur issus de
fouilles antérieures à Woolley sont désormais accessibles :

– 110 textes de YOS 5 [A. Jacquet] ;

– 11 textes de YOS 8 [B. Fiette] ;

– 13 textes de YOS 12 [DC] ;

D'autres, déjà présents dans la base, ont été lemmatisés. Rappelons
que les 34 tablettes découvertes en 1854 par Taylor (et mêlées à celle
des fouilles de Loftus à Tell Sifr), publiées dans HEO 12, sont
disponibles depuis septembre 2016.

Autres sites

– Mari : FM 11 [177 textes] [G. Chambon (transcription informatisée) ;
A. Quesnoit (contrôle et mise aux normes de la transcription) ; N.
Ziegler (lemmatisation) ; F. Nebiolo (photos)] ;

– Shemshara : les 102 lettres de ShA 1 sont désormais accessibles et
lemmatisées [N. Ziegler, avec la coll. d'A.-I. Langlois].


Merci à toutes celles et tous ceux qui ont ainsi permis un
enrichissement considérable de la base – et merci aux utilisateurs
pour leur patience pendant les quelques semaines en septembre/octobre
durant lesquelles le site a été momentanément indisponible.