Interesting.Stuff

Emar.Resources

Site and Excavations. A short description of the ancient site of tell Meskene and of the excavations carried on by the University of Tübingen.

Emar Bibliography. A usefull resouce manteined by B. Faist, J. Justel & J.P. Vita.

Sinleqiunnini .Emar Archives


by Francesco Di Filippo

The Sinleqiunnini Database is unavailable due to maintenance activity.

It will be back online after this summer with expanded functionalities and new texts. 

I apologize for any inconvenience.

Sinleqiunnini is an open source project for collecting and browsing cuneiform tablets in transliteration. At present Sinleqiunnini includes all legal, administrative and epistolary Emar texts so far published, thus representing the first thesaurus of this wealthy Late Bronze Age Syrian archive.
One of the main features of Sinleqiunnini is an innovating searching tool: by typing a specific request in the search engine or by clicking on single words of the transliterated texts, users can look for, and work on cuneiform signs, logograms and lemmas, or can browse the database according to given categories (e.g. personal, divine, geographical names).
'Unicode Standard' makes all texts fit in the current transliteration methodology: each document can be read and reproduced in its original printed layout.

Figure 1

Some obscure headline

UNICODE fonts are necessary for a correct visualization of this project. If you can not read the following strings (or if you see squares)
   ṣa    ṭa    KIRI₆    ᶠAš-˻ta˼
please install Doulos Sil Unicode font.

Figure 1

Technical issues

These pages are fully compatible with Firefox, an open source web browser for the most important Operative Systems (Windows, Macintosh and Linux): different browsers like Opera and Safari are also supported. Some problems of compatibility can occour using Internet Explorer.



Acknowledgments


Sinleqiunnini is a project of the Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale". It was carried out by Dr. Francesco Di Filippo with the technical assistance of Alessandro Vannetiello, under the supervision of Prof. Carlo Zaccagnini, and the financial support of the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR). The Project benefited of the pioneer work of Dr. Stefano Bassetti (a former student of Prof. Carlo Zaccagnini at the University of Bologna), who in the late 80's carried out a comprehensive encoding of the Emar corpus and a MS-DOS searching tool for these text files.