by Miller Prosser | Oct 15, 2019 | Archaeology
It seems there had been plans for a museum on the site of Ras Shamra-Ugarit. This was news to me. The plans outline a beautiful, mid-century modern building located hovering over Court V of the Royal Palace, supported by 24 pillars and covering 602 square meters....
by Miller Prosser | Feb 14, 2019 | Publications
Online Book A recent article of mine on the use of guided workflow wizards in OCHRE is now available online at the following link: Paper Hive “Digital Philology in the Ras Shamra Tablet Inventory Project: Text Curation through Computational in...
by Miller Prosser | Feb 14, 2019 | Dictionary, Text
Dictionary RSTI includes an Ugaritic and an Akkadian glossary. We are building these glossaries from the ground up, adding words as we encounter them in the texts. Properties Every word is described by a series of parse properties. The image shows the OCHRE interface...
by Miller Prosser | Dec 12, 2018 | Object, Text
This inscribed axehead was among the first inscribed objects discovered at Ras Shamra. The inscribed text has a few interesting features. The vertical incision at the beginning (left) may be the Personenkeil determinative that marks a personal name. Notice also how...
by Miller Prosser | Dec 11, 2018 | Administrative, RSTI Data, Tablet, Text
A tablet recording rosters for three ships: TEXT EDITION is available on the RSTI Data site. Click the link to launch a view of the object, from which you can click through to the “Associated...