Code
3F024920
Duration
01 November 2020 → 31 October 2025
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Archaeology of Australia, Asia, Africa, and the Americas
- Ancient history
- Middle Eastern history
- Middle Eastern languages
Keywords
Mesopotamia
Social Network Ana
Sumerian
Textual Encoding
Akkadian
Assyriology
History of Ancient Near East
Cuneiform Writing
Digital Humanities
History
Archaeology
Project description
This research project aims to enhance the traditional methodologies of textual analysis by leveraging the potential of digital methodologies to study 210 unpublished cuneiform tablets from the Ur III period (2112-2004 BC). The corpus of tablets, currently kept at Ghent University, lacks archaeological context and precise dating, which restricts the efficacy of traditional philological methods. To overcome these limitations, the project will integrate various digital methodologies, including Social Network Analysis (SNA), Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), 3D scanning, and Computer Tomography, to analyze the texts comprehensively and efficiently.