Staff
ePSD2 is based in the Penn Museum's Babylonian Section at the
University of Pennsylvania. The principal creators of ePSD2 are
Steve Tinney, Director, Philip Jones, Executive Editor, and Niek
Veldhuis, Associate Editor. A full list of staff and contributors
will be included in a future release.
The Parts of ePSD2
ePSD2 contains a number of components which are described briefly here.
- Glossaries
- The main glossary, /epsd2/sux [/epsd2/sux], resides in the top-level
project and combines the Sumerian glossary proper along with two
other ePSD2 glossaries, one
containing proper nouns [/epsd2/names/qpn], and the other covering Sumerian's
liturgical register, Emesal [/epsd2/emesal/sux-x-emesal].
- Corpus and Catalogue
- ePSD2's corpus consists of tens of
thousands of lemmatized texts which are distributed among a range of
Oracc projects, some of them internal to ePSD2 and others
independent. The combined corpus can be accessed here [/epsd2/pager], and an initial
catalogue of the corpus can be browsed and searched here [/epsd2/catalogue]. We
plan to enhance the catalogue in future releases as well as adding
to the corpus. A list of all of the projects combined into ePSD2's
corpus is available here.
- Signlist
- The ePSD2 signlist [/epsd2/signlist]
contains all of the signs and readings that occur in the glossaries,
and provides links to every article in which the signs and values
are used.
- Index to the Sumerian Secondary Literature
- The ISSL [/epsd2/issl] consists of a large, minimally
curated, collation of many book and journal indices, as well as the
references cited in the glossary bibliography section, and the
written forms of ePSD2 words, too. As such, it's both an index to
the secondary literature and another way to find things in
ePSD2.
- Browsable pages
- ePSD2 also provides a reimplementation
of the various browsable
lists [/epsd2/toc-frame.html] of words, English translations, and signs.
Portal Overview
Here's a summary list of the things you can find in the ePSD2 portal: