Posters

Changyu Liu (Zhejiang Normal University), Qier Zhang (Zhejiang Normal University), Jing Tan (Xingzhi College Zhejiang Normal University), Muzhe Han (Jiangsu University), and Émilie Pagé-Perron (University of York)

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DEMCC, the abbreviation of Database of Early Mesopotamian Cuneiform Contracts, is not only the first online database of Early Mesopotamian cuneiform contracts in China, but also the first online cuneiform texts database in China so far, which is the sub-project of the Key Project on Philosophy and Social Sciences of Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. 23JZD040). DEMCC aims to establish an integrated and comprehensive digital humanities platform that integrates data collection, text mining, multi-label classification, multimodal data association display, multi-source data fusion, and visualization capabilities for the future.

Matthew Ong (University of Helsinki)

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I present the development of a semi-automated workflow that extracts and digitally stores certain ‘geographically relevant information’ related to place names inventoried in the publication series Répertoire géographique des textes cunéiformes. Geographically relevant information goes beyond the place names themselves and includes schematizing the spatial relations and other geographical information discussed in the prose section of each entry. This schematized information is then imported in a Wikibase hosting a linguistically annotated corpus of Akkadian, adding an additional layer of cross-linked information.

Marina Redina-Thomas (Cornell University)

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This poster presents my work in progress, which is a part of my doctoral research on the rural settlements of the Nippur province during the Middle Babylonian period (1595-1155 BCE). It focuses on modeling network connections between settlements depicted on the Kassite cuneiform map CBS 10434 and other settlements co-attested with them in the archival administrative documents. The modeling is conducted with the help of Gephi software, which allows to visualize settlement network connections, trace their frequency, and identify network clusters that could be representing agricultural or taxation units.

Rune Rattenborg (Uppsala University)

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From 2020 to 2023, Geomapping Landscapes of Writing (GLoW), a research project hosted by Uppsala University Department of Linguistics and Philology, fielded an innovative research programme for large-scale data assembly and research on the materiality of writing in the cuneiform world. This poster presents an overview of this programme, exemplifying the potential of data integration and best practice approaches for how small and medium research projects may engage with and contribute to open research data repositories, building synergies and furthering the sustainability of research data in a digital, open access environment.

Lara Bampfield (Oxford University), David Young (University of Southampton)

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The Seals and their Impressions in the Ancient Near East (SIANE) device is a tool developed to enhance the visual documentation and analysis of ancient cylinder seals. Born out of a collaborative effort between archaeologists and computer scientists, the SIANE device was designed to overcome the challenges posed by the intricate designs and often worn or damaged surfaces of these artefacts. The development process focused on balancing high-resolution imaging with the practicalities of processing large datasets, resulting in a versatile tool that supports both 2D and 3D imaging methods.

Andrew Deloucas (Harvard University)

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This poster presentation details the methodology of my ongoing Ph.D. dissertation, tentatively titled “The Organizational History of Old Babylonian Nippur and Ur”. This study advances civic and social organizational analyses of the cities of Nippur and Ur, previously explored by Elizabeth Stone (1987) and Marc van de Mieroop (1992). The objective is to create comparative models of urban organization in southern Babylonia, analogous to those developed for Sippar (Harris 1975) and Assur (Larsen 1976).

Franziska Pannach (University of Göttingen) & Theresa Blaschke, (University of Marburg)

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Dumuzi is presented in different ways in Near Eastern myths. He is described as wild bull or man, sometimes he is part of a dedicated family structure or a separated entity. This poster presents eigth different views on the Mesopotamian deity, modelled as minimal (or shallow) ontologies, used to compare Dumuzi’s diverse representations.

Adam Anderson (UC Berkeley)

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This project is inspired by the durability of the data preserved in the oldest writing system known to mankind, called cuneiform. There are approximately a half-million artifacts with cuneiform writing spread all over the planet. Many of these objects are not even photographed, let alone translated. Scholars in this field have made a number of relational text databases, in order to identify these objects housed in museums and private collections, and while these databases have helped create a system of identificaiton and textual analysis, they have yet to be linked together to each other and to the existing scholarship. FactGrid is a Wikibase triplestore designed for historical research, which makes this the ideal hub for linking the existing scholarship, both primary and secondary sources, for every cuneiform artifact in publication.

Sara Arroyo Cuadra (UNED)

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This poster aims to show the main objectives to be developed within the project “Material culture from Middle Babylonian period (McMiB): digitalization and democratization of the access to the cultural heritage of the Ancient Near East”, funded thanks to a “María Zambrano” Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Ohr Dallal (Tel Aviv University), Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin (Duke University), Israel Finkelstein (Haifa University), Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv University)

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Image binarization is one of the essential and preliminary steps towards many document processing tasks. We aim to binarize Iron Age Hebrew ostraca, which are of great importance to the historical study of ancient Israel and Judah. To this end, a new and unique dataset is introduced, consisting of multispectral ostraca images taken at different camera wavelengths.

Maria Molina (Tel Aviv University)

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In the recent years universal dependencies (UD) became the standard for digital treebanks, they are an essential part of annotated linguistic corpora, and they are widely used for comparison of language features in linguistic research. This paper describes the UD annotation for Annotated Corpus of Hittite Clauses (ACHC). It is an ongoing project, starting from previously achieved number of UD-annotated clauses.

Gustav Ryberg Smidt (Ghent University), Katrien De Graef (Ghent University), Lise Foket (Ghent University) & Hendrik Hameeuw (KU Leuven)

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The strategy of the project is to create digital versions of OB tablets within IIIF, publish them in both physical and digital editions and analyse a large corpus of OB cuneiform tablets with computational methods.