Database Of Neo-Sumerian Texts (Bdtns)
[First posted inwards AWOL xix Jan 2012, updated, xix Dec 2018]
Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS)
Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (BDTNS)
The Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts (or BDTNS, its acronym inwards Spanish) is a searchable electronic corpus of Neo-Sumerian administrative cuneiform tablets dated to the 21st century B.C. During this period, the kings of the Third Dynasty of Ur built an empire inwards Mesopotamia managed past times a complex bureaucracy that produced an unprecedented book of written documentation. It is estimated that museums together with somebody collections all over the earth concur at to the lowest degree 120,000 cuneiform tablets from this period, to which should live on added an indeterminate issue of documents kept inwards the Republic of Iraq Museum.
Consequently, BDTNS was conceived past times Manuel Molina (CSIC) inwards venture to grapple this enormous amount of documentation. The projection initially rested on 2 key pillars. First, the boost given past times Marcel Sigrist, who inwards 1996 set at M. Molina’s disposal his Ur III catalogue of to a greater extent than than 30,000 texts. Second, the mass of Ur III transliterations prepared inwards 1993 past times Remco de Maaijer together with Bram Jagersma (Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden), made freely available on their website; over the years this cloth grew considerably together with was made accessible to M. Molina inwards 2001 via the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. All the transliterations inwards BDTNS based on that operate are properly credited on their respective catalogue records.
The operate on BDTNS began, therefore, inwards 1996 at the Instituto de Filología (now Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo) of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Six years later, inwards 2002, it appeared online. In the same year, it began to live on officially supported, cheers to 2 three-year enquiry projects funded past times the Castilian Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología:
BDTNS inwards Figures
BDTNS currently provides searchable cataloguing data, transliterations, images, bibliography, collections, seal inscriptions together with geotagged locations for to a greater extent than than 97,000 Neo-Sumerian administrative cuneiform documents. Part of this cloth remains unpublished, together with access to it is strictly at its editor’s discretion.
More specifically, the texts inwards BDTNS tin give the sack live on classified every bit follows (November, 2018):
Published inwards handcopy and/or transliteration 63,815 Published solely inwards catalogue or inwards photographic form 22,642 Auctioned 825 Unpublished 7,960 Total of texts inwards BDTNS 95,242
Transliterations for most of the published texts, images, a catalogue of seal inscriptions, collections, a consummate bibliography, together with geotagged information most their provenience are likewise provided past times BDTNS:
Texts inwards transliteration 64,012 (99% of published together with auctioned texts) + 769 (unpubl. texts) Lines inwards transliteration 1,156,400 Texts amongst handcopy 31,431 (62.2% via CDLI) Texts amongst photograph 32,699 (85.4% past times CDLI) Seal inscriptions 23,470 Bibliographical references 159,088 Bibliography 1,897 titles Collections 738 collections in
39 dissimilar countries
Provenience of the texts Umma 29,456 35.1% Girsu 27,212 32.5% Puzriš-Dagan 15,527 18.6% Ur 4,269 5.1% Nippur 3,417 4.1% GARšana 1,551 1.8% Irisagrig 1,150 1.4% Other 1,098 1.3%
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