The new volume of the CyberResearch series brings together thirty-three authors under the umbrella of digital methods in Archaeology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Biblical studies.
Both a newbie and a professional reader will find here diverse research topics, accompanied by detailed presentations of digital methods: distant reading of text corpora, GIS digital imaging, and various methods of text analyses. The volume is divided into three parts under the headings of archaeology, texts and online publishing, and includes a wide range of approaches from the philosophical to the practical.
This volume brings the reader up-to-date research in the field of digital Ancient Near Eastern studies, and highlights emerging methods and practices. While not a textbook per se, the book is excellent for teaching and exploring the Digital Humanities.
Acknowledgements
Editors Note
Note on Phonology
List of Figures, Maps and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Maps and Toponyms Related to Ancient Settlements or Regionsl
Introduction
Vanessa Bigot Juloux, Alessandro di Ludovico, Sveta Matskevich and Randall
W. Younker
Part 1: Archaeology (Landscape, Archaeology and Artefacts)
1 Evaluating Ancient Arabias Trade Routes with Least-Cost-Path Analysis
Alexander Städtler
2 High-Resolution 3D Documentation of Archaeological Artefacts. A
Copper-Alloy Object from Pyla-Kokkinokremos (Cyprus) as a Case-Study
Martina Polig, Sorin Hermon, Simon Jusseret, Giusi Sorrentino, Jan
Driessen, Athanasia Kanta and Joachim Bretschneider
3 Interactive 2D and Multispectral Imaging on the Crossroads of Archaeology,
Egyptology and Assyriology
Hendrik Hameeuw, Athena van der Perre and Vanessa Boschloos
4 Integrating Data, Creating Knowledge from Ancient West Asian Seals and
Sealings: The DigANES/ACAWAI-CS Projects
Elisa Roßberger and Anna Kurmangaliev
Part 2: Texts
5 Fast(Text) Analysis of Mesopotamian Divine Names
Heidi Jauhiainen and Tero Alstola
6 Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Annotations of Ancient Texts: The
Euporia System
Federico Boschetti, Luigi Bambaci, Angelo Mario del Grosso, Gloria Mugelli,
Anas Fahad Khan, Andrea Bellandi and Andrea Taddei
7 The Wisconsin Palmyrene Aramaic Inscription Project: Its Digital Methods
and Tools in Self-Critical Perspective
Preston L. Atwood and R. Jesse Pruett
8 Ancient Gods Going Digital: On the First Steps of the On-Going ERC Project
Mapping Ancient Polytheisms
Élodie Guillon and Fabio Porzia
Part 3: Online Publishing, Digital Archiving and Preservation
9 Speedy, Sleek Searching: Building Boolean Text Search Engines for Bibles
Drayton C. Benner
10 Digitality and the Ebla Archives: Framing Online Research Tools for the
Study of Early Cuneiform Texts in a Broader Methodological Discourse
Massimo Maiocchi and Lucio Milano
11 Getting LOADed: Practical Considerations, Tools and Workflows for
Producing Linked Open Assyriological Data
Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller
12 Integrating Spatial Data in the Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory
Miller C. Prosser
13 HUMOT: A Prosopographical Online Resource for Ancient and Late Antique
History
Elena Gritti
14 Mapping the World of Theology
Sean Boisen
CyberResearch Glossary
General Glossary
Index of Authors and Researchers
Index of CyberResearch
General Index
Vanessa Bigot Juloux is a PhD candidate at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris) and a researcher associate at the Institute of Archaeology & Siegfried H. Horn Museum (Andrews University, Michigan). Her research focuses on the anthropology of action, especially in political contexts.
Alessandro di Ludovico, Ph.D. (2007), Sapienza University of Rome, is research collaborator in Near Eastern Archaeology and co-director of the series Atlante del Vicino Oriente Antico" (Rome). His research deals with perception and communication in the ancient Near East.
Sveta Matskevich, Ph.D. (2015), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a Digital Archivist at the Israel Antiquities Authority and a lecturer at the Digital Humanities Program at the University of Haifa.
