Oracctivity

Hello! We have gotten a lot of new followers recently, so now seems like a good time to re-introduce ourselves. Welcome to Oracctivity! We're here to share all of the fun things happening in the worlds of cuneiform, digital humanities, and open data.

💥 Excellent news for #Sumerology 💥 Pascal Attinger's monumental Glossary of #Sumerian literary texts from the Old #Babylonian period is now #OpenAccess 🙌 #pagemode=thumbs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">harrassowitz-verlag.de/pdfjs/web/view… #philology #lexicography #Mesopotamia #Assyriology

We've just added a substantial number of Neo-Babylonian/Achaemenid documents to the BabCity corpus on ORACC - now 200 tablets and growing: oracc.museum.upenn.edu/babcity/pager @Oracctivity @opencuneiform

watch this space as soon I should officially advertise for 3 positions in my project 'Mesopotamian material religion' funded by the NCN, at the UKSW in Warsaw,starting Nov2022: a ft postdoc (4 yrs), a ft phd scholarship (3.5yrs) & a pt research assistant(4yrs). feel free to ms me

I'm absolutely THRILLED to announce that - thanks to the efforts of @may_alaseel and Azra Koçer - #Arabic and #Turkish translations of the #Sumerian literary debate 'Two Women B' are now available online @opencuneiform @Oracctivity 1/7 👇👇👇 oracc.museum.upenn.edu/dsst/Q000771

🥁🥁🥁 Finally, the article about "#DigitalAssyriology — Advances in Visual Cuneiform Analysis" is published! Big thanks to @bogacz_bartosz for many years on successful collaboration in this topic: doi.org/10.1145/3491239 #digitalhumanities #Altorientalistik #DigitalCuneiform

𒀭 Want to learn #cuneiform ? 𒀭 Colleagues at FU Berlin have developed flashcards for beginners: enjoy! ankiweb.net/shared/info/13…

Really exciting new entry for the database — the Epic of Gilgamesh! Many thanks to @SophusHelle for the great work on it. @ReligionHistory religiondatabase.org/browse/1375/#/

Some nice visualisations of archaic #Uruk architecture and more can be found here: artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-item… artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-item… artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-item…

The NinMed project is still a work in progress, but the results of it can tell us a lot about the system of medicine in place long before our own, and even before the Greek healer Hippocrates. You can read more about the project here: blog.britishmuseum.org/ancient-health…

You might have noticed that there are a lot of plants involved in these remedies. The project directors noticed that too! The digital version of this Encyclopedia will allow researchers to assemble an index of all plants and substances used in these texts.

The Nineveh Medical Encyclopedia is a 2,600-year-old handbook containing thousands of descriptions of diseases and symptoms, AND it’s currently being translated into English as the NinMed Project, hosted on #Oracc. oracc.museum.upenn.edu/asbp/ninmed/in…

Check out Dr. Laurie Pearce’s fantastic entry on Judeans in Babylonia! This is a great piece, rich in comments, that explores deportees of Judah living in Babylonia under imperial rule. @ReligionHistory @pearcele religiondatabase.org/browse/1264/#/

Large social-#network #dataset of 17,000 individuals who lived during the #NeoAssyrian period is available via @up_johd: tinyurl.com/3fjtxbzr