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  • Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (eCUT)

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    The Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (eCUT) Project, a sub-project of the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), is the first electronic corpus of Urartian written sources from the kingdom of Urartu and the first corpus that makes the Urartian texts accessible through annotated (lemmatized) transliterations, English translations and an English glossary. more

  • Legal Norms and Practices in the Cultures of Asia Minor and Northern Syria from the late Bronze Age to the early Hellenistic period

    This project is concerned with legal norms and practices in various societies that existed in Asia Minor and Northern Syria during the 2nd and 1st millennium BC. The focus is on the cuneiform documents of the Hittite Empire and the Lycian epichoric inscriptions. The thematic focus is on legal procedures and the institutional framework used to assert claims and sanction illegal action. more

  • The Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI)

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    A key objective of the newly established Chair for the Ancient History of the Near and Middle East is the promotion of easily accessible open-access source databases. Our aim is to make many of the rich primary sources of Assyria, Babylonia, and their contemporaries available online for free in a fully searchable and richly annotated (lemmatized) format. more