BALT: Babylonian Administrative and Legal Texts

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The corpus contains Babylonian cuneiform texts from the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, and Hellenistic periods (c. 626-93 BCE). More than half of the transliterated texts are legacy data of the late János Everling, who was one of the pioneers in making transliterated cuneiform texts available online. The other texts have been transliterated and translated by Johannes Hackl, Bojana Janković, Michael Jursa, Yuval Levavi, Martina Schmidl, and Caroline Waerzeggers, who gave permission to publish their texts on Korp. Korp allows extensive searches on the texts and presents the results as a KWIC concordance list. It also offers statistical information on the search results and enables the user to download them.

The texts have been automatically lemmatized and POS-tagged at the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires (University of Helsinki), funded by the Research Council of Finland (decision numbers 298647, 330727, and 352747). Linda Leinonen, Matias Sakko, Senja Salmi, and Repekka Uotila assisted in cleaning the data and creating metadata. The research group has converted the original transliterations into Oracc atf, and is naturally responsible for any errors introduced into the transliterations during the conversion. They have created and gathered some basic metadata for all the texts in this corpus. Some metadata was created using data from the NaBuCCo project (https://nabucco.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/). The research group thanks Kathleen Abraham, Michael Jursa, and Shai Gordin for giving access to the NaBuCCo metadata. They also thank Niek Veldhuis (Berkeley) and Heidi Jauhiainen (Helsinki) for their help at various stages of the project.

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