Digital Preservation of Archival Tablets from the Syrian Kingdom of Ugarit

FAIN: PW-259098-18

Brown University (Providence, RI 02912-9100)
Matthew Thaddius Rutz (Project Director: July 2017 to March 2024)

A project to catalog 2,061 cuneiform clay tablets written in seven languages from the site of Tell Ras Shamra, ancient Ugarit, in modern-day Syria. The project would also transliterate and translate 1,887 tablets into English and make all catalog information, transliterations, and translations available online.

Digital Preservation of Archival Tablets from the Syrian Kingdom of Ugarit will catalog the archival clay tablets written in the cuneiform script excavated at the Syrian site of Tell Ras Shamra, ancient Ugarit (c. 1350â??1185 BC) and make their contents freely accessible in digital form via The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus. These historical witnesses (letters, economic texts, legal contracts, records of state) document the daily life of a cosmopolitan Syrian city that flourished over three millennia ago, but they are now threatened by the ongoing crisis in Syria. The project will highlight museum registration information for all 2,061 archival tablets and transliterate (transcribe the cuneiform script into the Roman alphabet following scholarly conventions) and translate the 1,887 published texts. The catalog, transliterations, and translations will provide a complete digital record of these imperiled cultural artifacts.

Associated Products

aemw/ugarit: Corpus (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: aemw/ugarit: Corpus
Author: Matthew Rutz
Author: Jacob Lauinger
Abstract: Publication of tablets in the project text corpus arranged by dialect (Middle Assyrian; Middle Babylonian; Ugaritic, listed as “Unknown” due to known glitch with the data the platform pulls from the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative). The publication can include both texts with only Roman transliterations as well as texts with full digital mark-up and English translation. Updated and edited on a rolling basis after the award has ended.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: http://oracc.org/aemw/ugarit/corpus
Primary URL Description: DPATSKU Project Text Corpus
Access Model: Open access

aemw/ugarit: Akkadian Glossaries (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: aemw/ugarit: Akkadian Glossaries
Author: Matthew Rutz
Author: Jacob Lauinger
Abstract: Akkadian glossaries for digitally marked-up texts in the project corpus: Peripheral Middle Babylonian; Middle Assyrian. Updated and edited on a rolling basis after the award has ended.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: http://oracc.org/aemw/ugarit/cbd/akk-x-mbperi/onebigfile.html
Primary URL Description: Peripheral Middle Babylonian glossary.
Secondary URL: http://oracc.org/aemw/ugarit/cbd/akk-x-midass/onebigfile.html
Secondary URL Description: Middle Assyrian glossary.
Access Model: Open access

aemw/ugarit: Ugaritic Glossary (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: aemw/ugarit: Ugaritic Glossary
Author: Matthew Rutz
Author: Jacob Lauinger
Abstract: Ugaritic glossary for digitally marked-up texts in the project corpus. Updated and edited on a rolling basis after the award has ended.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: http://oracc.org/aemw/ugarit/cbd/uga/onebigfile.html
Primary URL Description: Ugaritic glossary.
Access Model: Open access

aemw/ugarit: Hittite, Hurrian Glossaries (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: aemw/ugarit: Hittite, Hurrian Glossaries
Author: Matthew Rutz
Author: Jacob Lauinger
Abstract: Non-Semitic glossaries for digitally marked-up texts in the project corpus: Hittite; Hurrian. Updated and edited on a rolling basis after the award has ended.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: http://oracc.org/aemw/ugarit/cbd/hit/onebigfile.html
Primary URL Description: Hittite glossary.
Secondary URL: http://oracc.org/aemw/ugarit/cbd/xhu/onebigfile.html
Secondary URL Description: Hurrian glossary.
Access Model: Open access

aemw/ugarit: Proper Noun Glossaries (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: aemw/ugarit: Proper Noun Glossaries
Author: Matthew Rutz
Author: Jacob Lauinger
Abstract: Glossaries for proper nouns occurring in digitally marked-up texts in the project corpus: people, places, divine names, ethnic names, month names, watercourses. Updated and edited on a rolling basis after the award has ended.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: http://oracc.org/aemw/ugarit/cbd/qpn/onebigfile.html
Primary URL Description: Proper noun glossary: people, places, divine names, ethnic names, month names, watercourses.
Access Model: Open access

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