The Ancient World Goes Digital

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.

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 Arabia’s 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