Ancient Near East: Text Projects, Initiatives & Archives

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Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions Project - (dead link)

Clark Collection of Ancient Art- Cuneiform Tablets - (dead link)

The Cuneiform Database Project - (dead link) University of Birmingham

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) - (dead link)
A joint project of the University of California at Los Angeles and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
"...represents the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3200 B.C., until the end of the third millennium...The CDLI data set will consist of text and image, combining document transliterations, text glossaries and digitized originals and photo archives of early cuneiform."

ETANA
Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives.
"This is the first time that library science, computer science, and Near Eastern archaeology have worked in such a close relationship. When developed, the digital library will make both the primary data and secondary studies of participating projects immediately available online and accessible world-wide."

Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia (RIM) - (dead link) "The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia is an international research project founded in 1978. The project is based at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations of the University of Toronto...The goal of the RIM project is to make the inscriptions of the rulers of ancient Mesopotamia available to layman and specialist alike by publishing standard editions of all the texts."

Sumerian Lexical Archive - (dead link)

Sumerian Lexicon Project - (dead link) Includes Annual Reports and The Sumerian Lex

University of Chicago Digital Library Projects

  • Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World
    "The project focused on materials published between 1850 - 1950, drawn from two of the Library's complimentary collections, the Ancient Near East and Classics Collections. Preserved materials relate to the study of the ancient Near East and cover such topics as the archaeology, art, history, language, law, and religions of Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, Egypt, Nubia, Persia, and other ancient peoples of Anatolia and the Fertile Crescent. Classics materials span the time from the rise of Bronze Age Aegean culture through the period in the Middle Ages and include volumes relating to the history, art and archaeology of the classical world"


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