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Official Inscriptions of the Middle East in Antiquity
Official Inscriptions of the Middle East in Antiquity
The LMU Munich-based and Humboldt Foundation-funded Official Inscriptions of the Middle East in Antiquity
(OIMEA) is presently an umbrella project that is intended to facilitate
quick and easy access to a wide range of open-access editions of
ancient Middle Eastern texts, all of which at this time are hosted on
the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus
(Oracc) platform. Some projects (see below) are directly or indirectly
managed by members of the chair of the Alexander von Humboldt
Professorship for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East of
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Historisches Seminar - Abteilung
Alte Geschichte), Karen Radner -- in particular Alexa Bartelmus and Jamie Novotny -- while others are not and these are included here under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.
As is obvious from the project's name, the scope of OIMEA is official
inscriptions. The currently available projects -- all of whose texts
are written in the Akkadian and Sumerian languages and in cuneiform --
are:
In time, OIMEA will include corpora of texts written in other
languages, including Aramaic, Phoenician, Luwian, Old Persian, and
Urartian. Moreover, the OIMEA team also intends to make the site a
powerful multi-project search engine that will enable anyone interested
in official inscriptions to simultaneously search the translations,
transliterations, catalogues, and portal pages of every available
project on which official inscriptions of the Middle East in Antiquity
are edited. As an informational and search hub, the project strives to
make the vast and varied corpus of inscriptions easily and freely
accessible to every scholar, student, and member of the general public,
and, in the near future, to enable our users the ability to effectively
and efficiently search that rich genre of ancient records.
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