Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalis (TLHdig) Beta Version 0.2

[First posted in AWOL 23 October 2023, updated 30 May 2025]

 

 

 Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalis (TLHdig) Beta Version 0.2

• Müller, Gerfrid (Project leader)¹ 
  
• Prechel, Doris (Project leader)²
• Rieken, Elisabeth (Project leader)³ 
  
• Schwemer, Daniel (Project leader)¹ 
  

Contributors

Hosting institutions:

• University of Würzburg 
  
• Academy of Sciences and Literature 
  

Project leaders:

• Müller, Gerfrid¹ 
  
• Prechel, Doris²
• Rieken, Elisabeth³ 
  
• Schwemer, Daniel¹ 
  

Project members:

• Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität¹
• Baier, Herbert¹
• Bastici, Fabio² 
  
• Chadbourne, Kevin¹
• Christiansen, Birgit⁴ 
  
• Eyselein, Björn¹
• Herdt, Paul³
• Sasseville, David³
• Savino, Letizia²
• Somel, Turna³
• Steitler, Charles Wayne⁵ 
  

Description

The dataset contains the XML documents of the online database Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalis (TLHdig) Beta Version 0.2 (hethiter.net/TLHdig), a tool that forms part of the Hethitologie-Portal Mainz (HPM: hethiter.net).

TLHdig is under constant development; the dataset made available here to researchers and developers reflects the TLHdig data online at the time of publication. If you further develop the dataset, please consider making your work available through HPM.

TLHdig is an open, growing digital repository for the presentation of standard-compliant, searchable, and annotated transliterations of cuneiform manuscripts from Hittite tablet collections.

The transliterations in TLHdig were not created by the TLHdig team, but reflect the collective endeavour of a century of Hittitological research. For a detailed description of the creation of the TLHdig data, see the Contributors section on the TLHdig website.

As a peer-reviewed, living archive of cuneiform manuscripts in transliteration, TLHdig is a collaborative, low-threshold research tool that enables researchers to add transliterations of yet unpublished cuneiform texts to a comprehensive digital corpus in an easy manner, without providing a definitive text edition. Thus the epigraphical and philological quality of the data contained in TLHdig is uneven and under constant development.

TLHdig is a community research tool, created by the community of Hittitologists for the community of Hittitologists. TLHdig is neither a dictionary, nor a critical text edition, nor an online journal, but supports, as a fundamental digital tool, any kind of advanced philological, lexicographical, and grammatical research on the language, history, and culture of the Hittites.

The first Beta Version of TLHdig (Beta 0.1) was published in September 2023 and contained already transliterations of more than 21,000 tablets and fragments. In early March 2025, the current version, TLHdig Beta 0.2, went online, containing transliterations of more than 98% of all published cuneiform fragments from Hittite tablet collections.