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The King's Librarians at Work. Applying Machine Learning and Computer Vision to the Study of Scribal

28/04/2023

Nel VII secolo avanti Cristo, il colto sovrano assiro Assurbanipal creò una biblioteca reale composta da decine di migliaia di tavolette d’argilla scritte in accadico cuneiforme e contenenti soprattutto testi letterari. Tra i segni impressi sulle due facce, ma anche sui bordi di molte tavolette, ...

20/12/2022

The third edition of the digital epigraphy workshop "Labelling the Library of Ashurbanipal" has started!
20 students from Università Ca' Foscari Venezia will be working with images of the tablets from the
British Museum.
This year we will work on labelling images and also on the validation of previously tagged tablets.
Be sure to stay tuned to follow our activities on our website and profile.

12/12/2022

SAVE THE DATE: 15 Dicembre
Inizia la terza edizione dello stage "Labelling the Library of Ashurbanipal, Laboratorio di epigrafia sumero-accadica digitale"

Primo incontro: giovedì 15 Dicembre dalle 14.00 alle 17.15, aula 1E Tesa 5 San Basilio

15/09/2022

Quando le nuove tecnologie si mettono al servizio dell'archeologia e delle scienze storiche: oggi - 11.30 su Rai Radio3 - scopriremo come l'intelligenza artificiale sia un potente strumento per leggere, completare e ordinare le migliaia di tavolette scritte in caratteri cuneiformi.

29/10/2021

SAVE THE DATE: 9 novembre

Seminario epigrafico
Chi l’ha scritto? Scritture, supporti e formati tra Mesopotamia e Arabia preislamica

Martedì 9 novembre 2021
Ore 8:45-10:15, Aula Padoan, San Sebastiano

Per partecipare all'evento è prevista registrazione obbligatoria:
In presenza: (Green Pass obbligatorio), scrivendo a [email protected] entro il giorno 5/11.
Via Zoom: https://unive.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkdeuopjssHt1IUByuXp8jHAHtgheHRrFU
Gli studenti di Ca' Foscari possono registrarsi per la presenza direttamente attraverso l'App di prenotazione del posto in aula.

24/09/2021

The second edition of “Labelling the Library of Ashurbanipal” is now starting!
The students from Università Ca' Foscari Venezia will be working with images of the tablets from the British Museum.
Be sure to stay tuned to follow our activities on our website and profile.

22/09/2021

☀ It’s the , when day and night are equal 🌑

This tablet from the library of Assyrian king Ashurbanipal records the same event over 2,600 years ago, as part of an astronomical report to the king.

Ashurbanipal could read and write, which was unusual for an Assyrian king, and he developed the first systematically collected and catalogued library in the world.

His library is a collection of over 30,000 clay tablets and fragments inscribed with cuneiform. The library contains texts about a broad range of subjects including magic, myths and legends, medicine and military intelligence.

📚 Read all about Ashurbanipal’s library in our curator’s blog: http://ow.ly/IuBD30r8MhF

🔎 A broken brown clay tablet, recording the date of the equinox. Neo-Assyrian. Read more: http://ow.ly/pEZe30r8Mg5

10/09/2021

SAVE THE DATE: 24 settembre
Inizia la seconda edizione dello stage "Labelling the Library of Ashurbanipal, Laboratorio di epigrafia sumero-accadica digitale"
per gli studenti dei corsi di laurea triennale in Storia, BBCC, Lettere e gli studenti della Magistrale in Scienze dell’ Antichità
L'attività è aperta anche alle matricole e non prevede prerequisiti disciplinari.

Primo incontro: venerdì 24/09 ore 9-13, aula 0G Tesa 5 San Basilio

Iscrizione obbligatoria inviando una mail alla Prof.ssa Paola Corò all'indirizzo [email protected]

05/09/2021

🦷 In ancient Mesopotamia, there was a belief that dental problems were caused by a worm – in the Akkadian language, a ‘tûltu’.

This was not a normal worm you might find in the soil, but a cosmic one sent down to earth by the gods to dwell in the human mouth – kept alive by food morsels and human blood!

There’s a lot of information about this tooth worm written on the cuneiform tablets in the collection. Tablets from the Library of Ashurbanipal contain an incredible medical handbook – the ‘Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia’. Incantations and magical acts from the encyclopaedia describe the connection between tooth decay and the worm, including the inscription on this Nero-Assyrian tablet, which says

“Indeed, [the worm] is the one that became hostile! Via the door of the flesh! Via the bar of the bone!”

“Whom shall I send to the first born-son of the mountains-Marduk, that the worm be smashed! May the worm get out through the doorpost socket like a mongoose!”

The encyclopaedia is currently being translated into English as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project to learn more about ancient medical history.

🔎 Right-hand corner of a Neo-Assyrian clay tablet. Kouyunjik (Nineveh), North Iraq. Read more: http://ow.ly/2sVc30rQUjq

31/08/2021

It’s for many this week 📚

Here’s a piece of homework that was handed in over 3,300 years ago!

This cuneiform tablet from Mesopotamia was made around 1900–1700 BC, and shows four lines of text written by a student – perhaps a proverb – with a teacher or relative’s writing on the back for them to copy from.

Need some term-time entertainment? Excite inquisitive minds with our free Museum Missions, and get your family talking, laughing and learning as you explore the Museum with your phone or tablet – just look out for the QR codes to scan in the galleries.

You can spend a few minutes completing one set of challenges or make a day of it and finish them all – find out more here: http://ow.ly/hTP130rRyGn

🔎 Clay tablet with four lines of inscription. Old Babylonian, 1900–1700 BC. Read more: http://ow.ly/tCMX30rRyH1

15/07/2021

Registration Registration online is open since December 10, 2020. Speakers should register by March 31, 2021. Audience can register until May 31, 2021: EXTENDED! See below. Payments can be made via bank wire or by credit card on the registration platform. Early career scholars may consider

15/07/2021

Today's program starting at 2pm (Rome Time).

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