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Ugaritic Texts
The Ugaritic texts are a corpus of ancient cuneiform texts discovered in 1928 in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) and Ras Ibn Hani in Syria, and written in Ugaritic language, Ugaritic, an otherwise unknown Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language. Approximately 1,500 texts and fragments have been found to date. The texts were written in the 13th and 12th centuries Common Era, BC. The most famous of the Ugarit texts are the approximately fifty Epic poetry, epic poems; the three major literary texts are the Baal Cycle, the Legend of Keret, and the Tale of Aqhat. The other texts include 150 tablets describing the Ugaritic cult and rituals, 100 letters of correspondence, a very small number of legal texts (Akkadian language, Akkadian is considered to have been the contemporary language of law), and hundreds of administrative or economic texts. Unique among the Ugarit texts are the earliest known Abecedarius, abecedaries, lists of letters in alphabetic cuneiform, where not only the ...
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Papyrus 118 is a small papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Romans. It is designated by (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts). The manuscript is in fragmentary condition, containing text from Romans chapters 15 and 16. Using the study of comparative writing styles (paleography), the manuscript has been dated by the INTF to the 3rd century CE. Description The papyrus was likely a codex (precursor to the modern book), and only has extant Romans 15:26-27, 32-33, and 16:1,4-7,11-12. The text was written in two columns per page. ; Text The Greek text of this codex is too small to determine its textual character. It runs directly from Romans 15:33 through to 16:1, whereas some manuscripts (such as ) have what is traditionally Romans 16:25-27 between Romans 15:33 and 16:1. ; History The early history of the manuscript is unknown. The codex is currently housed at thInstitut für Altertumskundeof the University of Cologne at Cologne, with the shelf numbe ...
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Ashlar
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250px, Henri de Contenson Henri de Contenson (4 March 1926 – 8 September 2019) was a French archaeologist and a researcher at the CNRS, The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research), a research organization funded by France's Ministry of Research. He was born in Paris in March 1926. A student of André Parrot, Raymond Lantier and André Leroi-Gourhan, he was Assistant Director of archaeological digs in the Middle East from 1951 to 1976. The results of his work are documented in numerous publications. He died in September 2019 at the age of 93. Books *1966 - ''La Basilique Chrétienne d'Aksha'' (The Christian Basilica of Aksha), Aksha I, Paris, 1966 (with appendices by J. de Heinzelin and P. Leman). *1992 - ''Préhistoire de Ras Shamra Ugarit (; , ''ủgrt'' /ʾUgarītu/) was an ancient port city in northern Syria about 10 kilometers north of modern Latakia. At its height it ruled an area roughly equivalent to the modern Lata ...
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Marguerite Yon
Marguerite Yon, or Marguerite Yon-Calvet, née Calvet, is a French Archaeology, archaeologist and historian, specializing in the ancient Near East, particularly Ugarit in Syria. She is widely recognized for her archaeological work on Ugarit, where she conducted excavations for twenty years. She has extensively excavated the island of Cyprus. Notably, she held the distinction of being the first female president of the Academy of Lyon since its foundation. Biography As a research director at French National Centre for Scientific Research, CNRS, Marguerite Yon had a particular interest in Ceramic, ancient ceramics. She conducted excavations in the ancient city of Salamis Island, Salamis in Cyprus and the Cypriot ports, such as the naval port of Kition, Kition Bamboula (modern Larnaca), and the Phoenician sanctuaries on the island. Marguerite Yon led the Syro-French Archaeological Mission of Ugarit, Ras Shamra-Ugarit for twenty years, from 1978 to 1998. Under her leadership, the mis ...
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The Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is a private, all-graduate research university in Claremont, California, United States. Founded in 1925, CGU is a member of the Claremont Colleges consortium which includes five undergraduate and two graduate institutions of higher education. The university is organized into seven separate units: the School of Arts & Humanities; School of Community & Global Health; Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Drucker School of Management; School of Educational Studies; the School of Social Science, Policy, & Evaluation; the Center for Information Systems & Technology; and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "List of research universities in the United States#Universities classified as "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity, R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity." History Founded in 1925, CGU was the ...
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Luwian
Luwian (), sometimes known as Luvian or Luish, is an ancient language, or group of languages, within the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. The ethnonym Luwian comes from ''Luwiya'' (also spelled ''Luwia'' or ''Luvia'') – the name of the region in which the Luwians lived. Luwiya is attested, for example, in the Hittite laws. The two varieties of Luwian are known after the scripts in which they were written: Cuneiform Luwian (''CLuwian'') and Hieroglyphic Luwian (''HLuwian''). There is no consensus as to whether these were a single language or two closely related languages. Classification Several other Anatolian languages – particularly Carian, Lycian, and Milyan (also known as Lycian B or Lycian II) – are now usually identified as related to Luwian – and as mutually connected more closely than other constituents of the Anatolian branch.Anna Bauer, 2014, ''Morphosyntax of the Noun Phrase in Hieroglyphic Luwian'', Leiden, Brill NV, pp. 9–10. Th ...
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Cuneiform (script)
Cuneiform is a logo- syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: ) which form their signs. Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Over the course of its history, cuneiform was adapted to write a number of languages in addition to Sumerian. Akkadian texts are attested from the 24th century BC onward and make up the bulk of the cuneiform record. Akkadian cuneiform was itself adapted to write the Hittite language in the early second millennium BC. The other languages with significant cuneiform corpora are Eblaite, Elamite, Hurrian, Luwian, and Urartian. The Old Persian and Ugaritic alphabets feature cuneiform-style signs; however, ...
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Text Corpus
In linguistics and natural language processing, a corpus (: corpora) or text corpus is a dataset, consisting of natively digital and older, digitalized, language resources, either annotated or unannotated. Annotated, they have been used in corpus linguistics for statistical statistical hypothesis testing, hypothesis testing, checking occurrences or validating linguistic rules within a specific language territory. Overview A corpus may contain texts in a single language (''monolingual corpus'') or text data in multiple languages (''multilingual corpus''). In order to make the corpora more useful for doing linguistic research, they are often subjected to a process known as annotation. An example of annotating a corpus is part-of-speech tagging, or ''POS-tagging'', in which information about each word's part of speech (verb, noun, adjective, etc.) is added to the corpus in the form of ''tags''. Another example is indicating the Lemma (morphology), lemma (base) form of each word ...
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