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“Understanding Mesopotamia is a way of understanding what it means to be human.” - @epageperron Great article about the exciting future of Assyriology, featuring @digcuneiform @cdli_news @opcassyriology @britishmuseum bbc.com/future/story/2 via @BBC_Future
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If alternate years stem from the fact that year names can be ambiguous, shouldn't the alternative years be linked to year names instead of artifacts? How do you model the fact that a month name can bear a specific month number based on place, ruler, and year of rulership?
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New stats for cuneiform texts of the Ur III period: Unique but not lemmatized word tokens: 78 182 (Yay affixing languages!), All word tokens: 3 241 013 (ouch!); Unique (not curated) sign readings: 3189 🤓
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New research tools for cuneiform, that is us, MTAAC ! ☺️
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The team tirelessly working @UCLA #NELCUCLA to provide to more people new research tools geared for, and new information about #Mesopotamia n inscribed artifacts. Krishna, @Douglas1995Li, Anoosha, @englund @epageperron, @shakerDan, @shraddha_m26, @jayanthiitb #cuneiform #Sumerian
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MTAAC's new software infrastructure is in active development!
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A normal day at the lab: @Douglas1995Li finishing the connection of the new database schema (prepared by @shraddha_m26, assisted by Krishna) with the new CDLI search and @jayanthiitb working for the first time with PHP technology to provide a GUI to the transliteration checker
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And a new version of the Electronic Pennsylvania Dictionary 2 (ePSD2) will be coming soon to Oracc: watch this space!
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Always wanted to learn Sumerian? Here's our latest addition to your DIY ancient languages toolkit by @diyclassics isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog/g
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