Hello! We have gotten a lot of new followers recently, so now seems like a good time to re-introduce ourselves. Welcome to Oracctivity! We're here to share all of the fun things happening in the worlds of cuneiform, digital humanities, and open data.
We've just added a substantial number of Neo-Babylonian/Achaemenid documents to the BabCity corpus on ORACC - now 200 tablets and growing: https://t.co/J7Rr400hwM @Oracctivity@opencuneiform
watch this space as soon I should officially advertise for 3 positions in my project 'Mesopotamian material religion' funded by the NCN, at the UKSW in Warsaw,starting Nov2022: a ft postdoc (4 yrs), a ft phd scholarship (3.5yrs) & a pt research assistant(4yrs). feel free to ms me
I'm absolutely THRILLED to announce that
- thanks to the efforts of @may_alaseel and Azra Koçer -
#Arabic and #Turkish translations of the #Sumerian literary debate 'Two Women B' are now available online @opencuneiform@Oracctivity 1/7
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https://t.co/RQbeEWkuJV
Really exciting new entry for the database — the Epic of Gilgamesh! Many thanks to @SophusHelle for the great work on it. @ReligionHistory
https://t.co/oemo27xMqa
Some nice visualisations of archaic #Uruk architecture and more can be found here:
https://t.co/wKUtBna5Nx
https://t.co/G6d348I28R
https://t.co/jDpU8MDm63
The NinMed project is still a work in progress, but the results of it can tell us a lot about the system of medicine in place long before our own, and even before the Greek healer Hippocrates. You can read more about the project here: https://t.co/X7o9nIx889
The Nineveh Medical Encyclopedia is a 2,600-year-old handbook containing thousands of descriptions of diseases and symptoms, AND it’s currently being translated into English as the NinMed Project, hosted on #Oracc. https://t.co/CrbvWO2aYe
You might have noticed that there are a lot of plants involved in these remedies. The project directors noticed that too! The digital version of this Encyclopedia will allow researchers to assemble an index of all plants and substances used in these texts.
Check out Dr. Laurie Pearce’s fantastic entry on Judeans in Babylonia! This is a great piece, rich in comments, that explores deportees of Judah living in Babylonia under imperial rule.
@ReligionHistory @pearcele
https://t.co/wySsvnL37f