Syrian Digital Library of Cuneiform

The Syrian Digital Library of Cuneiform (SDLC) project represents the collaborative efforts of a Syrian and international team of researchers to prepare an interactive Arabic / English / French presentation of a rich and indigenous cuneiform tradition dating back five millennia.

The cuneiform tablets collections, kept mainly in the museums of Damascus, Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa, and Idlib, originate from close to 40 different archaeological sites.Based on an integrated catalogue, those texts which have already been published will be the subject of an electronic edition, consisting of digital images and transliterations, presented via the web-pages of the SDLC. This presentation will be directly linked to the international project CDLI, making the texts part of an ever growing corpus of cuneiform texts freely available online, and benefitting from the powerful search tools of that project.

Syrian Ministry of Culture	Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums	Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG)
Syrian Museums Damascus National Museum Aleppo National Museum Idlib Museum Deir ez-Zor Museum Raqqa Museum Overview of the cuneiform tablets collections in Syria	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI) home site-map

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History of Ancient Syria

History of Excavations in Syria

Published cuneiform texts: bibliography and links

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