This section contains links to online text corpora, fonts, and other tools for engaging with ancient Near Eastern textual material. All resources are Open Access unless otherwise indicated.
Abzu is a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world.
Wortdiskussionen ist ein Projekt mit der Zielsetzung, die einschlägigen ägyptologischen Zeitschriften nach relevanten Wortbesprechungen, beschrifteten Objekten und Monumenten sowie ungewöhnlichen oder ausführlich diskutierten Personennamen zu verzette
Help transcribe and measure papyri from the City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish. "Ancient Lives is a collaboration between a diverse collection of Oxford Papyrologists and Researchers, The Imaging Papyri Project, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri Project, the Egypt Exploration Society and [additional] institutions]." The papyri belong to the Egypt Exploration Society and their texts will eventually be published and numbered in Society's Greco-Roman Memoirs series in the volumes entitled The Oxyrh...
La banque de donnèes contient l'ensemble des textes coptes documentaires publiés, soit à l'heure actuelle 7090 documents. Elle sera mise à jour périodiquement.
"Le site personnel COPTICA est destiné à tous les étudiants et amateurs de langue et littérature copte. Les uns y trouveront les textes et indices nécessaires à la poursuite de leur cursus universitaire (baccalauréat et maîtrise), mais aussi des liens essentiels. Les autres y trouveront informations et outils de travail..."
CDLI represents the efforts of an international group of scholars to make available through the internet the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of the pre-Christian era.
The current database assembles all available Early Dynastic inscriptions, covering the first attestations of writing discovered in tomb U-j (Naqada IIIA1, ca. 3250 BC) until the earliest known continuous written text in the reign of Netjerikhet...
The Diachronic Corpus of Sumerian Literature (DCSL) project seeks to establish a web-based corpus of Sumerian literature spanning the entire history of Mesopotamian civilization, over a range of 2500 years.
Ziel des Projektes ist die philologisch-wissenschaftliche Aufbereitung aller lexikalischen Texte aus den Ausgrabungen, die in den Jahren 1903-1914 unter der Leitung von Walter Andrae in Assur (Nordikrak) durchgeführt wurden...
Digitized manuscripts from the collection of the National Library of Israel and other collections, including the Bible, Ketubbot, Talmudic Literature, Liturgy, writings of various persons, etc.
A portal to ANE Web resources; permanent archiving, dissemination and generation of both front- and back-end stages of scholarly knowledge; an electronic commons where scholars in the field can share data and images, and an electronic publishing effort
The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), a project of the University of Oxford, comprises a selection of nearly 400 literary compositions recorded on sources which come from ancient Mesopotamia.
The InscriptiFact Project is a database designed to allow access via the Internet to high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds.
With the kind permission of the authors and the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, this project brings together translations and transliterations of 1600 texts.
The present database attempts to collect the basic information on all ancient literary texts, as opposed to documents. At present, it includes 12669 items, dating from the fourth century B.C. to A.D. 800...
Auf diesen Seiten finden Sie neben den umfangreichsten und bekanntesten Papyri auch kleinere Ostraka und Papyrusfragmente; wenn möglich, immer mit Abbildungen des Originals, Umschreibung in Hieroglyphen und natürlich in deutscher Übersetzung.
Open Scriptures seeks to be a comprehensive open-source Web repositoryfor integrated scriptural data and a general application framework forbuilding internationalized social applications of scripture...
"Oracc comprises a workspace and toolkit for the development of a complete corpus of cuneiform whose rich annotation and open licensing support the next generation of scholarly research..."
A customized search engine; currently retrieves and displays information from the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP) and the Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis (HGV).
The 'Papyrus Portal' is a project that aims to provide the user with both the opportunity of an efficient search of all digitized and electronically catalogued papyrus collections in Germany
"The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project...will publish in print and online all of the known royal inscriptions that were composed during the reigns of the Assyrian kings Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC), Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), Sargon II (721-705 BC), Sennacherib (704-681 BC), and Esarhaddon (680-669 BC)..."
SemArch ist ein von der DFG gefördertes Projekt zur digitalen Archivierung von Tonaufnahmen semitischer Sprachen und Dialekte und deren Publizierung im Internet.
The Tebtunis papyri form the largest collection of papyrus texts in the Americas. The collection has never been counted and inventoried completely, but the number of fragments contained in it exceeds 30,000. This web site, which is under continuous d
This research project aims to study the scholarship of Assyria and Babylonia by editing the contents of four ancient libraries as the Corpus of Ancient Mesopotamian Scholarship (CAMS), and by analysing their changing socio-political contexts.
Through this site we hope to provide access to our collection, as well as to numerous other papyrological resources, for researchers, students, and the general public.
The University of Minnesota owns nineteen artifacts inscribed in cuneiform, the script of ancient Mesopotamia. They are now made available to the public in new editions, including transliterations, translations, and photographs, through digital media.
WALS consists of 141 maps with accompanying texts on diverse features (such as vowel inventory size, noun-genitive order, passive constructions, and "hand"/"arm" polysemy), each of which is the responsibility of a single author (or team of authors)...