iClay: Digitizing Cuneiform

Title

iClay: Digitizing Cuneiform

Creator(s)

Cohen, Jonathan

Duncan, Donald

Snyder, Dean

Cooper, Jerrold

Kumar, Subodh

Hahn, Daniel

Chen, Yuan

Purnomo, Budirijanto

Graettinger, John

Date

2004

Is Part Of

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST)

Language

eng

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

ISBN

978-3-905673-18-5

Short Title

iClay

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2312/VAST/VAST04/135-143

Zotero BiDiAr

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/J2QW4XGX/item-list

Abstract

Advances in digital technology for the graphic and textual representation of manuscripts have not, until recently, been applied to the world's oldest manuscripts, cuneiform tablets. This is due in large part both to the three-dimensional nature of cuneiform tablets and to the complexity of the cuneiform script system. The Digital Hammurabi Project and the Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding announce success in encoding Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform in Unicode while also demonstrating advances in 3D scanning and visualization of cuneiform tablets, showcased by iClay, a cross-platform, Internet-deployable, Java applet that allows for the viewing and manipulation of 2D+ images of cuneiform tablets.