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A Large-Scale Dataset of Annotated Cuneiform Sign Images for Digital Palaeography

Journal of Open Humanities Data
This paper presents a large-scale dataset of 158,946 annotated cuneiform sign crops extracted from 9,276 clay tablets and other objects spanning over three millennia of Mesopotamian history (ca. 2800 BCE–75 CE).
Or Lewenstein, Daniel López, Cyrill Dankwardt, Mays Fadhil Alrawi, Louisa Grill, Brian Mak, Albert Setälä, Fiammetta Gori, Aino Hätinen, Felix Rauchhaus, Zsombor Földi, Enrique Jiménez   +11 more
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Semi-Automatic Annotation of Babylonian Cuneiform Texts

Journal of Open Humanities Data
This article presents the methods and workflow for semi-automatic linguistic annotation of Akkadian cuneiform texts and a Neo-Babylonian corpus created with them.
Tero Alstola, Aleksi Sahala, Jonathan Valk, Matthew Ong   +3 more
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The Spread of ‘Heavenly Writing’

Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2014
Cuneiform is the name of various writing systems in use throughout the Middle East from the end of the fourth millennium BCE until the late first century CE.
Marina ZORMAN
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An Archaeometric Approach to Reveal Organic Compounds via GC‐MS Analyses of Two Discovered Incense Burners at Daba Al‐Bayah

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi, Federica Spagnoli, Vittorio Vinciguerra, Stefania Garzoli   +3 more
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L’écriture et l’art mésopotamien ancien

Pallas, 2017
In Mesopotamia, the first written documents, in the late fourth millennium BC, are carriers of symbols which have a meaning and a sound. At the same time appears a corpus of images linked to divine word.
Évelyne Faivre-Martin
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A Newly Discovered Tablet‐Making Facility in Nineveh: Insights From Scientific Analysis

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper addresses the question of tablet technology in the Neo‐Assyrian capital city of Nineveh. Recent excavations in the lower town of Nineveh by the Iraqi–Italian Archaeological Expedition uncovered an exceptional assemblage of more than 200 tablets from an elite residence that appears to have included a scriptorium.
Mathilde Jean, Michela Spataro, Jonathan Taylor, Gianfranco Ulian, Giovanni Valdré, Gabriele Giacosa, Eleonora Mariani, Nicolò Marchetti   +7 more
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Dissemination and price of cotton in Mesopotamia during the 1st millennium BCE

Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2019
The archaeological finds attest that cotton textiles appeared in Mesopotamia during the 1st millennium B.C. The first attempt to cultivate this plant, according to the available written sources, was by the Assyrian king Sennacherib, and also dates back ...
Louise Quillien
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Early microglial response to amyloid plaques drives sleep loss in Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 22, Issue 6, June 2026.
Abstract INTRODUCTION Sleep disruption is an early feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the cellular mechanisms linking amyloid pathology to sleep loss remain unclear. METHODS Electroencephalography/electromyography (EEG/EMG) recordings, quantitative EEG analysis, and sleep deprivation were performed in APPswe/PSEN1dE9 (APP/PS1) mice at different ...
Nicholas J. Constantino, Riley E. Irmen, Matthew J. Lanning, Sierra M. Turner, Clair C. Ashley, Caitlin M. Carroll, Evan M. Neary, Dave Rubinow, J. Andy Snipes, Shannon L. Macauley   +9 more
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Language, Translation, and Commentary in Cuneiform Scribal Practice [PDF]

, 2018
Cuneiform scholarly practices systematized an exploration of mean- ing potential. In cuneiform scholarship, knowledge making emerged from multiple scribal practices, most notably list-making, analogical reasoning, and translation.
Jay Crisostomo
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Massage Regulates Brain Plasticity in Chronic Sciatic Nerve Compression Injury Rats: A Study Based on Resting‐State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Brain and Behavior, Volume 16, Issue 6, June 2026.
Resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging analysis of chronic constriction injury rats after massage therapy. ABSTRACT Background Neuropathic pain (NP) is associated with maladaptive functional reorganization of the brain, yet the central mechanisms through which massage therapy exerts its analgesic effects remain poorly understood.
Lanting Huang, Xuekun Zhou, Lechun Chen, Chenyu Wang, Hao Wang, Huanzhen Zhang, Changzheng Jiang, Shuijin Chen, Jingjing Jiang, Qiangwen Xie, Zhigang Lin   +10 more
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