#video on 3-D scanning of #cuneiform tablets with a 75μm-resolution X-ray CT scanner, then #3D-printing replicas
on 02024-07-10#video of STBN TʕOORNR #writing his name in Ugaritic #cuneiform with a #tutorial on the different strokes
on 02024-07-10Gai Gutherz trained #neural-networks on the ORACC corpus to translate #Akkadian. “Some translations were very good, some were near the point, where you could start from it, but you would have to make it more accurate manually, and some were total hallucinations.” There is a large database of digitized tablets called SEAL, Sources of Early Akkadian Literature. #cuneiform
on 02023-06-23discussion of a newly (2014) discovered tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh in #cuneiform.
on 02015-11-16This #cuneiform sign list (for neo-Assyrian) gives a different two-stroke sign for “NU”, and a much more complicated one for “ŠIR (NU₁₁)”.
on 02015-09-09This #cuneiform dictionary has a wonderful index but only covers Akkadian, not Sumerian.
on 02015-09-09This gives a different three-stroke #cuneiform sign for NU (nu, sir₅), but that one is “light; fire; lamp; alabaster”, according to the #Sumerian-lexicon.
on 02015-09-09A "Sumerian lexicon" with 1,255 logograms and 2,511 compound words. However, it doesn’t actually contain pictures of the #cuneiform signs! Nevertheless, I am fairly sure the “nu” on p.14 meaning “image, likeness, picture, figurine, statue; no, not, without, negative; pronominal prefix” is U+12261, which contains three strokes.
on 02015-09-09