CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions. Case Studies on Archaeological Data, Objects, Texts, and Digital Archiving
Vanessa Bigot Juloux, Amy Rebecca Gansell, Alessandro di Ludovico (eds.). Brill, Digital Bible Studies 2. 2018, 460 + XXVIII.
☞ Co-editors | Authors | Table of contents | Readership | Acknowledgment | On Open Access | Panels
Overview
CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions provides case studies on archaeology, objects, cuneiform texts, and online publishing, digital archiving, and preservation.
Eleven chapters present a rich array of material, spanning the fifth through the first millennium bce, from Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Iran. Customized cyber- and general glossaries support readers who lack either a technical background or familiarity with the ancient cultures. Edited by Vanessa Bigot Juloux, Amy Rebecca Gansell, and Alessandro di Ludovico, this volume is dedicated to broadening the understanding and accessibility of digital humanities tools, methodologies, and results to Ancient Near Eastern Studies. Ultimately, this book provides a model for introducing cyber-studies to the mainstream of humanities research.
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Co-editors
- ⇾ Vanessa Bigot Juloux is a Ph.D. candidate at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes and Paris Sciences et Lettres, and a research associate at the Institute of Archaeology (Andrews University, Michigan). She has recently developed open-access guidelines for analyzing actions in tei-xml (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.1202468) and is currently co-editing a volume on violence in ancient cultures.
- ⇾ Amy Rebecca Gansell, Ph.D. (2008), Harvard University, is Associate Professor of Art History at St. John’s University (New York). She has published computational and digital research in the American Journal of Archaeology, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, and Journal of Archaeological Science.
- ⇾ Alessandro di Ludovico, Ph.D. (2007), Sapienza University, Rome, is a research fellow in Near Eastern Archaeology at the same university. His research deals with perception and communication in the ancient Near East; he is co-director of “Atlante del Vicino Oriente Antico”.
Authors
by (surnames) alphabetic order
- ⇾ Vanessa Bigot Juloux (ephe-psl and Andrews University)
- ⇾ Doğu Kaan Eraslan (ephe-psl)
- ⇾Amy Rebecca Gansell (St. John's University)
- ⇾ Heidi Jauhiainen (University of Helsinki)
- ⇾ Krister Lindén (University of Helsinki)
- ⇾ Alessandro di Ludovico (Sapieneza University)
- ⇾ Matthew Martino
- ⇾ Shannon Martino (School of Art University of Chicago)
- ⇾ Sveta Matskevich (Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
- ⇾ M. Willis Monroe (University of British Columbia)
- ⇾ Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller (Australian National University)
- ⇾ Émilie Pagé-Perron (University of Toronto)
- ⇾ Miller C. Prosser (University of Chicago)
- ⇾ Marco Ramazzotti (Sapieneza University)
- ⇾ Aleksi Sahala (University of Helsinki)
- ⇾ Ilan Sharon (Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
- ⇾ Saana Svärd (University of Helsinki)
Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Editors’ Note
- Phonology
- Abbreviations
- List of Figures, Tables, and Appendices
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction to CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions
Vanessa Bigot Juloux, Amy Rebecca Gansell, and Alessandro di Ludovico
Part 1: Archaeology
- 1 A Conceptual Framework for Archaeological Data Encoding
Sveta Matskevich and Ilan Sharon - 2 Landscape Archaeology and Artificial Intelligence: the Neural Hypersurface of the Mesopotamian Urban Revolution
Marco Ramazzotti, Paolo Massimo Buscema & Giulia Massini
Part 2: Objects
- 3 Data Description and the Integrated Study of Ancient Near Eastern Works of Art: The Potential of Cylinder Seals
Alessandro di Ludovico - 4 A Quantitative Method for the Creation of Typologies for Qualitatively Described Objects
Shannon Martino and Matthew Martino
Part 3: Texts
- 5 A Qualitative Approach Using Digital Analyses for the Study of Action in Narrative Texts: ktu 1.1-6 from the Scribe ʾIlimilku of Ugarit as a Case Study
Vanessa Bigot Juloux - 6 Network Analysis for Reproducible Research on Large Administrative Cuneiform Corpora
Émilie Pagé-Perron - 7 Semantic Domains in Akkadian Texts
Saana Svärd, Heidi Jauhiainen, Aleksi Sahala, and Krister Lindén - 8 Using Quantitative Methods for Measuring Inter-Textual Relations in Cuneiform
M. Willis Monroe
Part 4: Online Publishing, Digital Archiving, and Preservation
- 9 On the Problem of the Epigraphic Interoperability of Digitized Texts of the Mediterranean and Near Eastern Regions in First Millennium bce
Doğu Kaan Eraslan - 10 Digital Philology in the Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory Project: Text Curation through Computational Intelligence
Miller C. Prosser - 11 Publishing Sumerian Literature on the Semantic Web
Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller
- Maps
- Toponyms Related to Ancient Settlements or Regions Mentioned in
- Glossaries
- Index of Archaeology and Typology
- Index of Authors in Bibliographical References
- Index of Digital Terms
- Index of History and Geography
- Index of Literature
Readership
This volume will interest scholars and students of the ancient Near East as well as digital humanities researchers across disciplines.
Acknowledgment
We would like to thank Claire Clivaz and David Hamidović, our series (Digital Biblical Studies) editors at Brill, for their support and assistance preparing this volume for Open Access. We would also like to thank Claire Clivaz, David Hamidović once again, and Brill Publishers for supporting this volume through the nomination and selection process for Knowledge Unlatched. Finally, we are grateful to Knowledge Unlatched for taking interest in and ultimately selecting this volume for the honor of Open Access, which we hope will benefit researchers and students worldwide. For more information about Knowledge Unlatched, see http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
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Panels
- ⇾ At ASOR/EPHE-PSL European Symposium in Paris, Sept. 6, 2018, 3:OO-4:30 PM (GMT+1). Presiding: Claire Clivaz (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics). Panelists: Peter Stokes (ephe-psl) and Massimo Maiocchi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia). Respondents: Vanessa Bigot Juloux (epĥe-psl, Andrews University) and Alessandro di Ludovico (Sapienza, Roma).
- ⇾ At SBL in Denver, Panel on CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions (DBS 2), Nov. 18, 2018, 9:00 to 10:30 AM. Presiding: Paul Dilley (University of Iowa). Panelists: Tiffany Earley (University of Central Florida), Helen Dixon (Wofford College), Randall W. Younker (Andrews University), David Hamidovic (Université de Lausanne). Respondents: Vanessa Bigot Juloux (ephe-psl), Amy Rebecca Gansell (St. John's University).