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        <editor>Cunningham, Graham</editor>
        <editor>Ebeling, Jarle</editor>
        <editor>Black, Jeremy (deceased)</editor>
        <editor>Flückiger-Hawker, Esther</editor>
        <editor>Robson, Eleanor</editor>
        <editor>Taylor, Jon</editor>
        <editor>Zólyomi, Gábor</editor>
        <funder>Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)</funder>
        <funder>Leverhulme Trust</funder>
        <funder>University of Oxford</funder>
        <funder>British Academy and Hungarian Academy of Sciences</funder>
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          <name>Alster, Bendt</name>
          <name>Cavigneaux, Antoine</name>
          <name>Farber, Gertrud</name>
          <name>George, Andrew</name>
          <name>Haayer, Geerd</name>
          <name>Jagersma, Bram</name>
          <name>Krecher, Joachim</name>
          <name>Ludwig, Marie-Christine</name>
          <name>Michalowski, Piotr</name>
          <name>Roth, Martha</name>
          <name>Sefati, Yitschak</name>
          <name>Vanstiphout, Herman</name>
          <name>Veldhuis, Niek</name>
          <name>Volk, Konrad</name>
          <name>Walker, Christopher</name>
          <name>Wilcke, Claus</name>
          <name>Zgoll, Annette</name>
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          <resp>Contributed source material and initial catalogue</resp>
          <name>Civil, Miguel</name>
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          <resp>Contributed source material, technical advice and
            linguistic annotation</resp>
          <name>Tinney, Steve</name>
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          <resp>Updated bibliographic records</resp>
          <name>Head, Ronan</name>
          <name>Löhnert, Anne</name>
          <name>Ohgama, Naoko</name>
          <name>Roberts, Faimon</name>
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            <note>This edition of the ETCSL is an expansion, revision
              and enhancement of the first-time deposit of the corpus
              (<ref target="http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/2424/">OTA catalogue item 2424</ref> - currently not available).</note>
            <note>The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
              (ETCSL) comprises transliterations and English
              translations of 394 compositions attested on sources
              dating to the period from approximately 2100 to 1700
              BCE. The compositions are divided into seven categories:
              ancient literary catalogues; narrative compositions;
              royal praise poetry and hymns to deities on behalf of
              rulers; literary letters and letter-prayers; divine and
              temple hymns; proverbs and proverb collections; and a
              more general category including compositions such as
              debates, dialogues and riddles. The numbering of the
              compositions within the corpus follows Miguel Civil's
              unpublished catalogue of Sumerian literature
              (etcslfullcat.html).Files with an initial c are
              composite transliterations (a reconstructed text
              editorially assembled from the extant exemplars but
              including substantive variants) in which the cuneiform
              signs are represented in the Roman alphabet. Files with
              an initial t are translations. The composite files
              include full references for the cuneiform sources and
              author-date references for the secondary sources
              (detailed in bibliography.xml). The composite and
              translation files are in XML and have been annotated
              according to the TEI guidelines. In terms of linguistic
              information, each word form in the composite
              transliterations has been assigned to a lexeme which is
              specified by a citation form, word class information and
              basic English translation.</note>
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        <p>During the last grant-period the Electronic Text Corpus of
          Sumerian Literature (ETCSL) project had three principal
          aims. The first was to create a comprehensive and
          representative corpus of Sumerian literary compositions
          attested on sources dating to the period from approximately
          2100 to 1700 BCE. The second was annotation of the corpus
          enabling it to be published online in a searchable format
          modelled on the electronic corpora for modern languages. The
          third was quantitative analysis of the corpus based on this
          annotation and techniques developed within corpus
          linguistics. Hitherto, relatively few of these Sumerian
          compositions, recorded on clay tablets in the cuneiform
          (wedge-shaped) script, have been published in satisfactory
          modern editions, and many have remained inaccessible even to
          scholars. The literature is virtually unknown to a broader
          audience; yet this is the oldest human poetry which can be
          read, and represents the literary production of the
          civilisation which first developed writing. By oral and
          written transmissions through Akkadian and other later
          languages of the ancient Near East, this literature left its
          impression on Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and other subsequent
          cultures in world history. </p>
	<p>This corpus was created in the period 1997 to 2006.</p>
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