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1 (Re-)constructing Cuneiform Communities: ancient and modern Laurie Pearce Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley NEH Digital Humanities Seminar UCLA, 25 August 2010

2 Individual digital text project Discipline-wide consortium Digital tools / SNA analysis Constructing communities

3 Hellenistic Babylonia: Texts, Images and Names

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6 55 mm BM mm photographs L. Pearce, used with permission of the Trustees of the British Museum

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9 [SELLER] son of [father of seller] descendant of [CLAN], sold [description of prebend] to [BUYER] son of [father of buyer] descendant of [CLAN] in perpetuity. [SELLER] son of [father of seller] received sale price from [BUYER] son of [father of buyer]. Should a claim arise concerning that [description], [GUARANTOR] son of [father of guarantor] will clear (it) and will pay 12-fold to [BUYER] son of [father of buyer] in perpetuity. That [description] belongs to [BUYER] son of [father of buyer] descendant of [CLAN] in perpetuity. Witness list: 7-20 persons, A son of B descendant of C

10 Structure of name formula: PN son of FN son of GF son of GGF descendant of LN Anu-belshunu / Ina-qibit-Anu / Anu-zer-ukin / Nana-iddin / // Ah utu

11 Anu-belshunu / Ina-qibit-Anu / Anu-zer-ukin / Nana-iddin / Anu-belshunu / Ina-qibit-Anu / Anu-zer-ukin / Nana-iddin / Anu-belshunu / Ina-qibit-Anu / Anu-zer-ukin / Nana-iddin / Anu-belshunu / Ina-qibit-Anu / Anu-zer-ukin / Nana-iddin / Anu-belshunu / Ina-qibit-Anu / Anu-zer-ukin / Nana-iddin /

12 Nana-nadinat Kidin-Anu Nana-iddin Anu-ab-uter Ah-utu Anu-zer-iddin Ina-qibit-Anu Anu-ahhe-iddin Anu-zer-lisir Anu-zer-lisir (Kephalon) Anu-balassu-iqbi Nana-iddin Ana-rabutisu Anu-uballit Mukin-apli Mukin-apli (Antiochos) Nana-iddin (Demetrios) Papponymy in Hellenistic Uruk families

13 Other Names Anu-uballit Akkadian Nikolaos Akkadian whose other name is whose other name is Kephalon Greek Rihat-Anu Akkadian Illut-Anu Greek whose other name is Ina-qibit-Anu Akkadian

14 Suitability of HBTIN corpus for digital prosopography: 1. Size of corpus: ~ 700 texts and fragments 2. Full qualification of individuals 3. Kinship clearly marked 4. Boilerplate text; clear text structure 5. Dated texts: establish range of activities 6. Cheat sheets : : prior scholarship test/confirm results

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16 CDLI SCREEN SHOT

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19 ATF text input for BiMes 24, 40

20 ATF text input lemmatized

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22 BPS is... Open-source Prosopographical toolkit Graph visualizations Operate on data in archival texts

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24 BPS Architecture prepared by P. Schmitz

25 BPS... Corpus preparation Technology development Community building

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28 Family Tree of the Nana-iddin Family Nana-nadinat Kidin-Anu Anu-ab-uter Nana-iddin Ah-utu Anu-zer-iddin Ina-qibit-Anu Anu-ahhe-iddin Anu-zer-lisir Anu-zer-liser (Kephalon) Anu-balassu-iqbi Nana-iddin Ana-rabutisu Anu-uballit Mukin-apli (Antiochos) Nana-iddin (Demetrios)

29 Family Tree View: #280 Nana-nadinat Kidin-Anu Anu-ab-uter Nana-iddin Ah-utu Anu-zer-liser Anu-zer-iddin Anu-ahhe-iddin Ina-qibit-Anu Tablet: CM 12 1 Sale of Slave Date: SE Role: Buyer Anu-zer-lisir (Kephalon) Anu-balassu-iqbi Nana-iddin / // Ah-utu #280 Tablet: CM 12 1 Sale of Slave Date: SE Ana-rabutisu Role: Seller Anu-uballit Mukin-apli (Antiochos) Remains green in this view if no other family members are involved in that transaction Specific color dots refer to different family members participation in same transaction

30 FOCUS PERSON view: s connections in CM 12 1 Nana-iddin / // Ah-utu #280 Anu-ahhe-iddin Anu-ittannu Ana-rabutika-Anu Anu-uballit Kidin-Anu Ina-qibit-Anu Anu-qisan Anu-iksur Rabi-Anu Anu-uballit Anu-ah-ittannu Labasi Family Seller to Buyer (Co)-owner Slave Possible relationship Scribe witness

31 Nana-nadinat Kidin-Anu Anu-ab-uter Family Tree View: Transactions Within the Family, Generations 2-6 Nana-iddin Anu-zer-iddin Ina-qibit-Anu Anu-ahhe-iddin (Antiochos) Nana-iddin (Demetrios) Anu-zer-liser Anu-balassu-iqbi Anu-zer-lisir (Kephalon) Anu-zer-lisir Mukin-apli Ana-rabutisu Nana-iddin Anu-uballit Mukin-apli Labasi

32 Nana-nadinat Nana-iddin Kidin-Anu Anu-ab-uter Anu-zer-iddin Family Tree View: Transactions Within the Family, Generations 2-6 Buyer/Seller Witness Neighbor Co-owner Divider of shares Guarantor Anu-ahhe-iddin (Antiochos) Anu-zer-liser Anu-balassu-iqbi Anu-zer-lisir Ana-rabutisu Anu-uballit Mukin-apli Labasi

33 Generation 2 & 3: Nana-iddin as principal in family transactions Kidin-Anu Anu-ab-uter Nana-nadinat Nana-iddin Anu-zer-iddin Anu-ahhe-iddin Anu-zer-liser Anu-balassu-iqbi

34 Istar-sabit/Ubar-ahhesu Ana-rabutika-Anu/Anu-ah-usabsi Co-owner Leasor/leasee Guarantor Buyer/seller Scribe Nana-nadinat /Labasi Nana-iddin Mannu-ki-Dilbat/Anu-ah-tuqqin Hanna/Tattan-Nana Tabat-Nana/Hanin-esi Anu-ahhe-iddin Nidintu-Nana/Labasi Belet-abisu/ Anu-uballit/Iqisa Anu-ah-usabsi/Anu-ab-usur Itti-Anu-nuhsu/ Anu-uballit / Itti-Anu-nuhsu Itti-Anu-nuhsu/ Anu-uballit/Kidin-Anu Generation 2: all principals in transactions

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36 locations IT Hellenistic Uruk Ur III scribe Oracc Dev OB Rim Anum Achaem. Egibi Berkeley Chicago Dresden Auburn Tel Aviv London Philadelphia NB Eanna CTIJ NB Borsippa Lexical Texts domains

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