Ancient World Goes Digital

Vanessa Bigot Juloux is a PhD candidate at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris) and a researcher associate at the Institute of Archaeology & Siegfried H. Horn Museum (Andrews University, Michigan). Her research focuses on the anthropology of action, especially in political contexts. Alessandro di Ludovico, Ph.D. (2007), Sapienza University of Rome, is research collaborator in Near Eastern Archaeology and co-director of the series “Atlante del Vicino Oriente Antico" (Rome). His research deals with perception and communication in the ancient Near East.Sveta Matskevich, Ph.D. (2015), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a Digital Archivist at the Israel Antiquities Authority and a lecturer at the Digital Humanities Program at the University of Haifa.

• AcknowledgementsEditors’ NoteNote on PhonologyList of Figures, Maps and TablesAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsMaps and Toponyms Related to Ancient Settlements or RegionslIntroductionVanessa Bigot Juloux, Alessandro di Ludovico, Sveta Matskevich and Randall W. YounkerPart 1: Archaeology (Landscape, Archaeology and Artefacts)1 Evaluating Ancient Arabia’s Trade Routes with Least-Cost-Path AnalysisAlexander Städtler2 High-Resolution 3D Documentation of Archaeological Artefacts. A Copper-Alloy Object from Pyla-Kokkinokremos (Cyprus) as a Case-StudyMartina Polig, Sorin Hermon, Simon Jusseret, Giusi Sorrentino, Jan Driessen, Athanasia Kanta and Joachim Bretschneider3 Interactive 2D and Multispectral Imaging on the Crossroads of Archaeology, Egyptology and AssyriologyHendrik Hameeuw, Athena van der Perre and Vanessa Boschloos4 Integrating Data, Creating Knowledge from Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings: The DigANES/ACAWAI-CS ProjectsElisa Roßberger and Anna KurmangalievPart 2: Texts5 Fast(Text) Analysis of Mesopotamian Divine NamesHeidi Jauhiainen and Tero Alstola6 Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Annotations of Ancient Texts: The Euporia SystemFederico Boschetti, Luigi Bambaci, Angelo Mario del Grosso, Gloria Mugelli, Anas Fahad Khan, Andrea Bellandi and Andrea Taddei7 The Wisconsin Palmyrene Aramaic Inscription Project: Its Digital Methods and Tools in Self-Critical PerspectivePreston L. Atwood and R. Jesse Pruett8 Ancient Gods Going Digital: On the First Steps of the On-Going ERC Project “Mapping Ancient Polytheisms”Élodie Guillon and Fabio PorziaPart 3: Online Publishing, Digital Archiving and Preservation9 Speedy, Sleek Searching: Building Boolean Text Search Engines for BiblesDrayton C. Benner10 Digitality and the Ebla Archives: Framing Online Research Tools for the Study of Early Cuneiform Texts in a Broader Methodological DiscourseMassimo Maiocchi and Lucio Milano11 Getting LOADed: Practical Considerations, Tools and Workflows for Producing Linked Open Assyriological DataTerhi Nurmikko-Fuller12 Integrating Spatial Data in the Ras Shamra Tablet InventoryMiller C. Prosser13 HUMOT: A Prosopographical Online Resource for Ancient and Late Antique HistoryElena Gritti14 Mapping the World of TheologySean BoisenCyberResearch GlossaryGeneral GlossaryIndex of Authors and ResearchersIndex of CyberResearchGeneral Index