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Digital Archiving of the Amarna Letters: Towards the Linguistic Study of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Fourteenth Century B.C.E.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26870085
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Linguistics
Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

TAKAHASHI Yona  筑波大学, 人文社会系, 非常勤研究員 (90647702)

Research Collaborator IKEDA Jun  筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (60288850)
WAKI Toshihito  筑波大学, 人文社会系, 准教授 (70361293)
NAGAI Masakatsu  筑波大学, 人文社会系, 助教 (70578369)
Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywordsアマルナ書簡 / ディジタルアーカイブズ / 楔形文字 / アッカド語 / カナン語 / 文献言語学 / Text Encoding Initiative / Linked Open Data / 楔形文字資料 / デジタルアーカイブ
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this research is to construct a digital archive of the Amarna Letters, which were the diplomatic letters mainly from Ancient Palestine to Egypt in the fourteenth century B.C.E. These letters are important, not only in that they were inscribed by the cuneiform scripts on the clay tablets, but also in that they were written in the mixed language of both the official Akkadian and the local Canaanite language. This research succeeded to combine three different types of data in one digital platform, such as photos of the clay tablets stored in the image database, each cuneiform information and the linguistic analysis on the mixed language of the letters, by using the XML tagset provided by Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). The research provides the theoretical and practical basis for the future study on the Digital Platform, as well as for the philological and general linguistic studies.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2015 2014

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Open Access: 1 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] 画像, TEI, LOD を用いた文字研究・言語研究のためのプラットフォームの構築2014

    • Author(s)
      高橋洋成, 永井正勝, 和氣愛仁
    • Journal Title

      人文科学とコンピュータ研究会報告

      Volume: 2014-CH-105 Pages: 1-5

    • NAID

      110009871925

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] A Digital Archive of the Amarna Tablets: Diplomatic Relations and Their Lingua Franca in Ancient Palestine, 14th century B.C.E.2015

    • Author(s)
      Yona Takahashi
    • Organizer
      Eighth Forum for the Euro-Japan Academic Networking for Humanities Project: Trajectories from Pre-Modern to Post-Modern
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-07
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 画像, TEI, LOD を用いた文字研究・言語研究のためのプラットフォームの構築2015

    • Author(s)
      高橋洋成, 永井正勝, 和氣愛仁
    • Organizer
      第105回人文科学とコンピュータ研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      大阪国際大学守口キャンパス(大阪府守口市)
    • Year and Date
      2015-01-31
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2017-05-10  

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