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Ebla Digital Archives 2.0

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 [First posted in AWOL 28 February 2011. Updated 23 November 2018]

Ebla Digital Archives 2.0
 A Project of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Lucio Milano Editor in Chief
Massimo Maiocchi Associate Editor
Francesco Di Filippo Software Designer
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Ebla (ancient Tell Mardikh) is an ancient city-state in North-West Syria, which flourished in the mid-third and early second millennia BCE. Since 1964, the “Italian Archaeological Mission to Syria” has been excavating the site, under the direction of Paolo Matthiae. Within the collapsed rooms of the royal palace, the excavators found ancient archives, made of thousands of cuneiform tablets, datable to the 24th century BCE.
The Ebla Digital Archives [ EbDA ] aims to provide a digital edition of the entire corpus of Ebla texts. It includes all documents published so far in the ARET series (“Archivi Reali di Ebla – Testi”) as well as in other monographs and journals. Compared with hard copy publications, the digital edition provides harmonized transliterations, corrections and numerous collations made over the years by the team of epigraphers who cooperate with the “Italian Archaeological Mission to Syria”.
The Ebla Digital Archives project provides scholars an students alike with an easy-to-use, yet powerful research tool for the study of the Ebla texts. Users may browse the documents individually, or query data in the most flexible way, thanks to one of the most advanced database implementation for the digital representation of cuneiform dicuments. An extensive, searchable, up-to-date bibliography of all Ebla material published so far complements the results.

EbDA v.2 new research features

  • 1.    Advanced queries based on regular expressions, matching any of the following: part of a word, whole word, word starting with, word ending with; user defined input string formatted according to PostgresSQL regular expressions syntax. 
  • 2.    Queries for syntagmatic units: match one or more input strings within an user-defined word range: e.g. match the word for “house” (E2) only when it is followed by the word for “king” (EN).
  • 3.    Co-occurrences: match texts containing an array of words (e.g. a list of city names, such as Ebla, Mari, Kakmium).
  • 4.    Queries for sign names: given an input reading, match all possible values attached to the corresponding sign. If two or more readings are passed as input, the query returns all words containing the corresponding input signs attached to them, regardless of their actual readings.
  • forthcoming    Full Text queries on English translations - based on stemming (e.g. a query for “goes” returns “to go” as well). 
  • forthcoming    Queries on ancient lexical roots associated with the individual words attested in the Ebla documents, based on Lemmas.

EbDA v.2 in numbers:


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