Official Inscriptions of the Middle East in Antiquity

Novotny, Jamie and Radner, Karen (2018): Official Inscriptions of the Middle East in Antiquity. Online Text Corpora and Map Interface. In: Rossi, Irene and De Santis, Annamaria (eds.) : Crossing Experiences in Digital Epigraphy: From Practice to Discipline. 1. Auflage. Berlin: De Gruyter Open. pp. 141-154

Abstract

The LMU Munich-based Official Inscriptions of the Middle East in Antiquity (OIMEA) project is one of the two principal, digital text corpora of the Munich Openaccess Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), which is a freely accessible digital humanities umbrella project established by Karen Radner and Jamie Novotny in the fall of 2015. This international project – which includes research partners in Philadelphia, Barcelona, and Rome – aims to edit all available official inscriptions of ancient Middle Eastern polities, recorded in the cuneiform script and contemporary writing systems, in a freely accessible, fully lemmatized (lexical and grammatical data tagging), and completely searchable format via the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc) project. In addition, OIMEA plans to make geo-referenced text editions available through its Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP) map interface, which is developed in collaboration with LMU’s Center for Digital Humanities.

• Item Type: Book Section
• Keywords: Assyria; Babylonia; geo-referencing; lemmatization; map interface
• Faculties: History and Art History > Department of History > Ancient History
• Subjects: 900 History and geography > 900 Geschichte; 900 History and geography > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499)
• ISBN: 978-3-11-060719-2
• Place of Publication: Berlin
• Language: English