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The texts have been adapted from
János Everling's legacy data
Caroline Waerzeggers, Marduk-rēmanni: Local Networks and Imperial Politics in Achaemenid Babylonia (OLA 233), 2014
Yuval Levavi, Administrative Epistolography in the Formative Phase of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (dubsar 3), 2018
We thank Yuval Levavi and Caroline Waerzeggers for their permission to use their work on this site. János Everling's legacy data is published to honor his pioneering work in making transliterated cuneiform texts available online.
This semi-automatically lemmatized online edition of the texts has been created by Tero Alstola, Aleksi Sahala, Jonathan Valk, and Matthew Ong. Linda Leinonen, Matias Sakko, Senja Salmi, and Repekka Uotila assisted in cleaning the data and creating metadata.
We wish to thank Kathleen Abraham, Michael Jursa, and Shai Gordin for giving us access to NaBuCCo metadata for certain texts. We also thank Niek Veldhuis and Heidi Jauhiainen for their help at various stages of the project. We are grateful to the Oracc steering committee and other developers of Oracc for providing us with the digital platform to publish this annotated text corpus.
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