FactGrid:Cuneiform Project

back to Ancient world projects

Cuneiforme tablet and enveloppe-MAHG 16161, between 1700 and 1800 BC , Musée d'art et d'histoire, created in Ancient Egypt, found in Babylon excavations

The FactGrid Cuneiform project seeks to provide a comprehensive ontology for all artifacts with cuneiform inscriptions. For every document within an archive, we can make triple statements for both observable facts and scholarly editions derived from publication sources. In addition to the tablets and artifacts, this project seeks to document the numerous entities named in the text, and work with specialists to build statements for prosopography, since the occurrence of a name requires disambiguation before it can be confidently linked to a person.

Currently the FactGrid cuneiform project has mapped all online artifacts with cuneiform inscriptions, and provides a template for the different types of statements for a cuneiform tablet (see below).

Contact: Adam Anderson / Timo Homburg

First searches

• All cuneiform tablets on FactGrid, by period, where found? where now? CDLI ID
• All cuneiform tablets on FactGrid, map of finding spots

• All the places where cuneiform artifacts are found around the world

• All the proveniences of archaeological excavations where cuneiform artifacts were found

Example Items

• Statements for a Cuneiform Text
• Statements for a person named in a text

Zenodo repository

Collection Address links directly to the Zenodo community dataset collection

Upload address will automatically ensure people who use it will have their record added to your community collection

Curation address links to your private curation URL. You will find all uploads pending your curation in Zenodo

Harvesting URL address links to a OAI-PMH feed, which can be used by other digital repositories to harvest this community in Zenodo

GitHub repository

FactGrid Cuneiform: Building LOD datasets and ontologies for cuneiform