Nicla de Zorzi (Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna)

Lecture Series: Introduction to Digital Humanities

I will present Vienna-based DH work in the field of Assyriology/Ancient Near Eastern studies that results from three third-party funded projects and collectively give a good impression of the range of current approaches in the field. First, the project Bestiarium Mesopotamicum, which presents online editions of Babylonian omen texts represented by multiple partly overlapping manuscripts. The challenge to be met here lie in the specifics of digital philology and edition techniques that result from the nature of the sources, in addition to the project's interest in opening a pathway beyond the edition towards an interpretation of these texts. Second, the project DigEanna, which aims at presenting an online corpus of about 10.000 Cuneiform texts representing the archive of a Babylonian temple. DigEanna works mostly through metadata and text paraphrases (regesta) rather than through full editions. Third, the project Labasi, which is a tool for Babylonian epigraphy.