Progetto .Sinleqiunnini


by Francesco Di Filippo


Sinleqiunnini's Project aims to provide scholars with a web-based toolkit for collecting and browsing cuneiform sources of the Ancient Near East.
It has been conceived to menage large corpora of texts, by focusing on their layout and accessibility throughout the world wide web. The use of 'Unicode Standard' makes all texts fit in the current transliteration methodology, that is, each document can be view and reproduced in its original printed layout. Moreover, the web-based toolkit is intended to be platform independent, thus supporting different operating systems (Windows, Macintosh, Linux).
Our efforts mainly dealt with the logical design of a database with complex searching facility for lemmata. One of the main features of Sinleqiunnini is an innovating searching tool based on regexp pattern matching and full-text indexes. By typing a specific request in the search engine, users can look up cuneiform signs, logograms and lemmata, or can browse the database according to given categories (e.g. personal, divine, geographical names).


Online .Databases

  • the Middle Euphrates Digital Archive

  • The database includes all Emar texts so far published and minor collections from tell Munbaqa, tell Hadidi, tell Faqous, tell el-Qitar, tell Bazi and Umm el-Marra.


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Some obscure headlines

Appropriate Unicode fonts are required to display the web pages of this project. If you can not read the following strings (or if you see "stange squares")
   ṣa      ṭa      KIRI₆      ᶠAš-˻ta˼
please install Doulos Sil. The Unicode font DejaVu is also highly recommended for a full view of Sinleqiunnini.


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Technical issues

The web pages of this project have been concieved to be fully compatible with Mozilla Firefox, an open source web browser available for the most important Operative Systems (Windows, Macintosh, Linux).

Different browsers like Safari, Chrome and Opera are also partially supported. Some compatibility problems might occour with Internet Explorer.



Acknowledgments


Sinleqiunnini is a joint project of the Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" and of the Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia. It was conceived and carried out by Dr. Francesco Di Filippo with the financial support of the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR).