This index contains primary spatial, toponym, attribute, together with external link information on about ii hundred together with l locations across the Eastern Mediterranean together with the Middle East where texts written inwards cuneiform together with derived scripts accept been found. The index has been prepared past times Rune Rattenborg as move of Memories For Life: Materiality together with Memory of Ancient Near Eastern Inscribed Private Objects a inquiry projection based at Uppsala University together with the University of Cambridge financed past times a Research Project Grant from the Swedish Research Council (grant no. 2016-02028). The intention is to continuously update this index to render an tardily digital geographical reference for Assyriologists, Near Eastern Archaeologists, together with other researchers amongst an involvement inwards the cuneiform script. New download versions volition seem regularly. Time permitting, nosotros volition aim to expand the index to comprise every bit good basic periodisation together with bibliographical information for tardily reference, along amongst quantitative data.
The electrical current version of the index is stored amongst the University of Uppsala Department of Linguistics together with Philology, hosted by Jakob Andersson and is available for download through links here. The index is supplied inwards .kml (suitable for usage amongst GIS applications together with Google Earth), .csv (for database integration) together with .geojson (for GIS together with spider web mapping applications).
This descriptive text is downloadable as .rtf. The index contains a full fourteen fields, namely ane primary ID, iii integer fields for accuracy together with information links, 8 string fields amongst toponyms, together with ii spatial information fields. Index fields include site_id (string), accuracy (integer), cdli_provenience_id (integer), pleiades_id (integer), com_name (string), anc_name (string), transc_name (string), ara_name (string), fas_name (string), heb_name (string), gre_name (string),cdli_legacy (string),lat_wgs1984 (integer) and lot_wgs1984 (integer). Coordinates given usage the WGS 1984 geographic coordinate reference organisation (EPSG 4326). Site locations accept been traced from archaeological gazetteers together with spider web mapping services (e.g. Pleiades together with OpenStreetMap) together with digitally generated from optical recognition using electrical current together with legacy satellite imagery datasets inwards QGIS 3.6. Below is a description of the private information fields contained inwards this index.
site_id (Primary ID)
The primary ID for each tape is an arbitrary together with unique three-letter code.
accuracy (Locational accuracy)
This champaign gives an assessment of the aeroplane of accuracy amongst which the geographical location given tin laissez passer the axe endure said to relate to the historical location on a four-tier scale, 3 being certain, 2 being representative, 1 being tentative, and 0 being unknown. Accuracy levels reverberate site visibility together with delineation. Where a discrete site outline tin laissez passer the axe endure traced, the site has been drawn every bit a polygon together with the location derived from the resulting centroid, giving a value of 3. Where the site tin laissez passer the axe endure positively located, but non drawn (e.g. Bisutūn), the value is given as 2. Where a site location tin laissez passer the axe endure placed amongst reasonable certainty, but non positively located, the value is given as 1. Where the location cannot endure defined amongst whatsoever reasonable score of certainty, the value is 0.
cdli_provenience_id (Primary ID)
The numerical provenience ID for the corresponding site inwards the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) catalogue, if available. The previously employed laid of provenience values tin laissez passer the axe endure constitute inwards the cdli_legacy champaign (see below). As integer tape IDs volition endure employed past times the CDLI going forward, legacy provenience values should endure employed for reference only.
pleiades_id (Pleiades ID)
The primary ID of the corresponding house tape in Pleiades: H5N1 Gazetteer of Ancient Places, if available. The stable link volition be https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/[PleiadesID]. Please greenback that, piece the tape entity inwards the electrical current index matches the tape entity in Pleiades, the geographical location of the tape contained inwards this index together with the associated Pleiades record may non endure the same. Records inwards this index non constitute in Pleiades will endure added to the latter repository inwards due course.
com_name (Common name)
This champaign gives a mutual toponym for the location, around oftentimes the ane past times which the site has usually appeared inwards the literature. It tin laissez passer the axe endure used for initial information searches, together with every bit good serves every bit the primary toponym inwards spatial index files supplied below. As names inwards this champaign rarely abide past times uniform rules of transcription together with are drawn from across unlike languages, they are poorly suited to endure used every bit formal reference names.
anc_name (Ancient name)
This champaign gives a mutual rendering of the ancient lift of the site inwards question, if known, based on readings from cuneiform texts. Places can, of course, accept many names, together with the electrical current index is non intended to render an exhaustive collection of all variant ancient writings or toponyms attested for private records.
transc_name (Transcribed name)
This champaign laissez passer the modern lift inwards Latin script maintained from the master copy when dealing amongst Maltese or Turkish toponyms or transcribed every bit accurately together with consistently every bit possible from Arabic, Farsi, Greek or Hebrew toponyms. Where names inwards multiple languages are found, the transcribed lift is drawn from the principal linguistic communication of the national entity currently associated amongst the tape inwards question.
ara_name (Arabic name)
The Standard Arabic lift of the site, if applicable together with available. Values derive from archaeological reports or from online resources e.g. Wikipedia (Arabic) together with OpenStreetMap. Note that the spelling of toponyms inwards Standard Arabic may vary, together with then discrepancies betwixt values given inwards this index together with other repositories may occur.
fas_name (Farsi name)
The Western Farsi lift of the site, if applicable together with available. Values derive from archaeological reports or from online resources, e.g. Wikipedia (Farsi) together with OpenStreetMap. Note that the spelling of toponyms inwards Western Farsi may vary, together with then discrepancies betwixt values given inwards this index together with other repositories may occur.
gre_name (Greek name)
The Greek lift of the site, if applicable together with available. Values derive from archaeological reports or from online resources, e.g. Wikipedia (English or Greek) together with OpenStreetMap. Note that the spelling of toponyms inwards Greek may vary, together with then discrepancies betwixt values given inwards this index together with other repositories may occur.
heb_name (Hebrew name)
The Hebrew lift of the site, if applicable together with available. Values derive from archaeological reports or from online resources, e.g. Wikipedia (Hebrew) together with OpenStreetMap. Note that the spelling of toponyms inwards Hebrew may vary, together with then discrepancies betwixt values given inwards this index together with other repositories may occur.
cdli_legacy (CDLI legacy provenience)
All associated legacy provenience values constitute inwards the electrical current catalogue of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initative (www.cdli.ucla.edu) are given inwards this field, separated past times ” : “. Where both a certainly together with a speculative value for the same provenience tape exists (that is, the uncertain value is followed past times “?”), the latter has non been included.
lat_wgs1984 (Latitude)
Latitude of the tape location inwards decimal degrees inwards the WGS 1984 geographic coordinate reference organisation (EPSG 4326).
lon_wgs1984 (Longitude)
Longitude of the tape location inwards decimal degrees inwards the WGS 1984 geographic coordinate reference organisation (EPSG 4326).
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