The Penn Parsed Corpus of Sumerian

Roadmap

This roadmap is intended to give a sense of our anticipated timetable; several people will be working simultaneously on various parts of the corpus and some work overlaps with plans of partner projects.

Time PeriodCorpus focus
06/04-07/04Third mill. Sum. royal inscriptions
07/04-09/04Nippur core literary corpus ("Nippur 55")
09/04-10/04OB royal inscriptions
10/04-01/05Remainder of OB literary corpus
07/04-05/05Lexical texts up to end of OB period
07/04-10/04CDLI Ur III "Gold" corpus (ca. 50,000 Ur III texts)
11/04-01/05CDLI ED IIIB admin corpus

Questions about PPCS can be directed to Fumi Karahashi or Steve Tinney.