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2000 BCE

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A browser for new English readings of cuneiform works that have ATF transliterations but little or no open English on CDLI — literary, royal, scientific, omen, and letter corpora first.

  • Explore — filter ranked candidates from the local CDLI dump
  • Epic hunt — large literary / phrase-scored shortlist (Gilgamesh II, hymns, …)
  • Remedies — plant recipes and therapeutic tablets (head, teeth, eyes, belly…)
  • Omens — physiognomy, birth, skin spots, liver extispicy, Mul.Apin / astral
  • Math — reciprocal (igi), metrology, multiplication (a-rá) school tables
  • Map & time — findspots and a period scrubber
  • Reader — English · ATF · period-style cuneiform side by side

Direct links: Gilgamesh II · Head fever remedies · Mole physiognomy · Liver extispicy · Reciprocal table · Metrology

Cuneiform is drawn in a period-matched face, following the eBL converter (Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Old Babylonian cursive / literary / monumental, Hittite; Noto otherwise); the reader's “Cuneiform face” menu overrides it for your session (font credits). Offline ATF→Unicode uses a vendored eBL reading map; optional live conversion hits the eBL signs API.

Translation model integration (local T5 from atf-translate-test, or in-browser Hugging Face later) is the next layer — the English column is ready for line-aligned output.

Credits & data
  • Catalogue & ATF: CDLI (cdli-gh bulk dump)
  • Cuneiform fonts (chosen by period, following the eBL cuneiform converter): Assurbanipal (Neo-Assyrian), Esagil (Neo-Babylonian), Santakku and SantakkuM (Old Babylonian cursive / monumental), UllikummiA (Hittite): fonts created by Sylvie Vanséveren, available on the Hethitologie Portal Mainz (free for scholarly use; files as distributed by eBL). OB Freie (Old Babylonian literary) by Corvin R. Ziegeler / Institut für Altorientalistik, FU Berlin (publication, SIL OFL 1.1). Noto Sans Cuneiform by the Noto project (SIL OFL 1.1) for other periods and missing signs.
  • Map: label-free shaded relief rendered from NOAA ETOPO 2022 (public domain) and Natural Earth (public domain); no modern roads, borders or labels
  • ATF→EN model research: sibling repos atf-translate-test, deep-cuneiform

CDLI “no translation” means not recorded in CDLI — some works are published in RINAP, ETCSL, ORACC, etc. The catalog flags likely known projects.