Abstract
A small archive of texts from ancient Iraq is used to demonstrate an approach to network analysis in which traditional close reading and computational text analysis go hand-in-hand. The computational methods produce tables and graphs that link back to online editions of the primary material, enabling the user to check the results.
Highlights
In this article, I will discuss the possibilities of using interactive visualizations for exploring social networks, based on ancient Sumerian texts from the period between ca. 2.100 – 2.000 BCE
Building such networks allows students and researchers to quickly get an idea of the important actors in the archive that is being studied and to move from studying a single text in detail, to a bird's-eye view of the entire corpus1
The data is freely available through the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC)
Summary
I will discuss the possibilities of using interactive visualizations for exploring social networks, based on ancient Sumerian texts from the period between ca. 2.100 – 2.000 BCE (the socalled Ur III period). 2.100 – 2.000 BCE (the socalled Ur III period). I will discuss the possibilities of using interactive visualizations for exploring social networks, based on ancient Sumerian texts from the period between ca. Building such networks allows students and researchers to quickly get an idea of the important actors in the archive (or text group) that is being studied and to move from studying a single text in detail, to a bird's-eye view of the entire corpus. The article will discuss how this visualization was built and how further analyses and visualizations may be employed to explore the network
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