Ancient Near East links

Collegamenti a siti riguardanti il Vicino Oriente antico

• Bibliographical resources
• ANE resources
• ANE institutes & projects
• ANE interesting pages
• Fonts & languages
• HTML & XML

Bibliographical resources

• Centro Inter-Bibliotecario dell'Università di Bologna <www.cib.unibo.it> un ottimo punto di partenza
• Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN) <http://www.sbn.it>
  • Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane e per le Informazioni Bibliografiche (ICCU) <www.iccu.sbn.it>
  • ICCU search form <http://opac.sbn.it/cgi-bin/IccuForm.pl?form=WebFrame>
  • Elenco delle Biblioteche SBN <www.iccu.sbn.it/bipolsbn.html> per identificare le biblioteche segnalate nei risultati delle ricerca
• Catalogo Italiano dei Periodici (ACNP) <http://acnp.cib.unibo.it/cgi-ser/start/it/cnr/fp.html?m040=ACNP&m040=TEMP&action=find> ATTENZIONE: alcuni periodici possono essere catalogati solo in ICCU
• The History Journals Guide by Stefan Blaschke <www.history-journals.de>
  • Periodical abbreviation <www.history-journals.de/journals/hjg-abb.html>
  • Periodical catalogue <www.history-journals.de/journals/index.html>
• Comprehensive guide to abbreviations employed within the Ancient Near East and Egypt <http://www.ancientneareast.net/abbreviations.html>
• Associazione italiana biblioteche <www.aib.it>
  • Elenco repertori generali di cataloghi OPAC nel mondo <www.aib.it/aib/lis/r.htm>

Some useful OPACs

• Catalogo in linea dell'università di Firenze <http://opac.unifi.it> con molti periodici che (mi sembra) non figurano in ACNP
  • Modulo di ricerca
• Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli
  • OPAC <http://opac.iuo.it/h3/h3/ase>
  • elenco altri OPAC <www.iuo.it/webbiblio/opac.htm>
• Università la Sapienza di Roma
  • OPAC <http://minerva.akros.it/h3/h3.exe/asap>
  • Altri cataloghi di Roma <http://aleph.caspur.it/docs/bibroma.html>
• Deutsches Historisches Institut / Istituto Storico Germanico <www.dhi-roma.it>
• New York Public Library (CATNYP) <http://catnyp.nypl.org>
• SOAS Library <http://lib.soas.ac.uk>
  • Search the Library Catalogue
  • Ricerca per autore
  • Other Library Catalogues accesso ad altri cataloghi inglesi ed europei
• Library of Congress
  • Modulo di ricerca
  • Elenco di altri cataloghi on-line di tutto il mondo
  • Accesso al catalogo SBN italiano attravero la Library of Congress (utile quando ICCU è bloccato ovvero spesso)
• COPAC <http://copac.ac.uk/copac> catalogo collettivo delle principali biblioteche inglesi
  • Modulo di ricerca
• Library Catalogs and Other Library Information: German Catalogs - Austrian Catalogs - Swiss Catalogs <www.dartmouth.edu/~wess/wesscat.html>
• Bayerische Staatsbibliothek <www.bsb-muenchen.de>
  • OPAC <www.bsb-muenchen.de/opac.htm>
• Meta-OPAC
  • www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html
• Repertori bibliografici
  • www.biblio.tu-bs.de/acwww25u/wbi_neu_en/?db=wbi_en

Systems of Referencing

• Systems of Referencing
  • ISO 690:1987
    • Information and documentation -- Bibliographic references - Content, form and structure <www.lac-bac.gc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/standard/690-1e.htm> [CDrom]
      
    • ISO 690-2: Electronic documents or parts thereof <www.lac-bac.gc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/standard/690-2e.htm> [CDrom]
      
    • Additional examples <www.lac-bac.gc.ca/iso/tc46sc9/standard/690-2ex.htm> [CDrom]
  • Harvard System of Referencing <www.lmu.ac.uk/lss/ls/docs/Harvard/types.htm>
  • Bibliographical Citation and Referencing at Seale-Hayne Library <http://home.plymouth.ac.uk/services/library/seale_h/bibcit.htm>
  • <www.busmgt.ulst.ac.uk/eru/harvard.html>
  • Guide to citing internet sources <www.bournemouth.ac.uk/using_the_library/html/guide_to_citing_internet_sourc.html>
  • QUOTE UNQUOTE <www.lmu.ac.uk/lss/ls/docs/harvfron.htm>
  • Referencing using the Harvard style (author-date system) <www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/learningconnection/learnres/learng/word/Harvard%202002.doc>
  • How to cite electronic references correctly <www.le.ac.uk/ar/pdf_files/web_citation_2000.pdf>
• Bibliographical softwares
  • EndNote <www.endnote.com> [CDrom]
  • ProCite <www.procite.com> [CDrom]
  • BiblioScape <www.biblioscape.com> [CDrom]
  • Reference Manager <www.refman.com>

ANE resources

• Links and search engines
  • Abzu <www.etana.org/abzu>
    • ABZU - Mesopotamia
    • ABZU What's New
    • Oriental Institute ANE list
    • OI Photo IRAN
  • Achemenet.com
    • Achemenet Bibliographie (BHAch I e II) <http://www.achemenet.com/biblio.htm>
    • achemenet.com Resources
  • Ancient Near East.net Exploring and resourcing the Ancient Near East and Egypthome <www.ancientneareast.net>
  • Argos search form
• On-line texts
  • Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions <www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/ARI/ARI.html>
    • Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions Text Browser
    • Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions Lexicons
  • Textos Elamitas: Dirección, transcripción y traducción por Enrique Quintana Cifuentes www.um.es/ipoa/cuneiforme/elamita
  • The Oxford Text Archive www.ota.ahds.ac.uk
  • Etana www.etana.org in cui sta prendendo consistenza una biblioteca virtuale in formato PDF
    • Etana core texts http://lib11.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib/abzu-processquery.pl?SID=&UID=&auth=&selectsearch=etana&searchstring=active
  • TITUS <http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de>
  • Perseus Project <www.perseus.tufts.edu>
    • Perseus Classical Texts & Translations
  • Sumerian Texts Archive
  • The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
  • Inscriptions of the Land of Israel- Search Form
  • Avesta - Zoroastrian Archives <www.avesta.org>
    • Avesta fonts
    • Old Iranian Calendars by S. H. Taqizadeh
    • Resources
  • Classici latini www.thelatinlibrary.com
  • Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation university of California www.tlg.uci.edu/~tlg/index/resources.html
  • Library of Ancient Texts Online (LATO) <http://gainsford.tripod.com/lato/index.htm>
    Un'indice generale di testi greci e latini presenti in Internet.
  • Liber Liber <www.liberliber.it/biblioteca/index.htm> Biblioteca di letteratura italiana
  • Elenco di Biblioteche virtuali di opere in lingua italiana
  • Gallica, bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France <http://gallica.bnf.fr/>
  • Turning the pages (British Library) <http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation3.html>
• Tools
  • Nouvelles Assyriologiques brèves et utilitaires (NABU) <http://www.achemenet.com/recherche/textes/babyloniens/nabu/nabu.htm>
  • Encyclopaedia Iranica <www.bibliothecapersica.com>
    • Search form
    • Alphabetical index from A to E included
    • Elam headword www.iranica.com/articles/v8f3/v8f340.html
    • Download font IranWeb2
  • Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency <www.chn.ir/english/>
  • Elam, Elamites - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia www.studylight.org/enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T2928
  • COMPREHENSIVE ARAMAIC LEXICON of the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/
    • Text browse http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/text_browse.html
    • Lexicon search http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/searching/outline_lexicon_search.html
    • CAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES http://cal1.cn.huc.edu/bibliography/index.html
  • Dizionari on-line
    • Farsi <-> English dictionary http://iranianlanguages.com/dictionary.php?eng-per
    • English dictionary <www.yourdictionary.com>
    • www.m-w.com Merriam-Webster English Dictionary
    • www.oed.com/index.htm Oxford English Dictionary Online (subscription)
  • Useful books in electronic format
    • King & Thompson, The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius The Great on the Rock of Behistun in Persia by Darius I, King of Persia <www.cwru.edu/UL/preserve/stack/Sculptures.html>

ANE institutes & projects

• Italy
  • Bologna
    • Elenco facoltà università BO
    • DiSLO - Bologna
    • Storia Antica - Bologna
    • Dipartimento di Archeologia BO
      • Biblioteca Dipartimento di Archeologia BO
    • Conservazione dei Beni Culturali - Ravenna
    • Dipartimento di studi storici BO
  • Is.I.A.O.
    • Is.I.A.O. Emilia-Romagna
  • Storia Antica - Firenze
    • RNO
  • Istituto Universitario Orientale - Napoli
  • MURST - Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
  • www.cieloeterra.it/index.html Cielo e terra, associazione per lo studio dell'astrologia classica, di Giuseppe Bezza
• The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Project Home Page
• Oriental Institute of Chicago
• School of Oriental and African Studies, London
  • SOAS Near Middle East
• Assyrian International News Agency
• University of Chicago Library
• Melammu <www.melammu.org>
  • Melammu 2000
  • Melammu database (including Melammu manual and links)
• Societas Iranologica Europæa <www.societasiranologicaeu.org>
• Biblical Archaeology Society
• Griechische Papyri Heidelberg, Übersicht
• Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies

ANE interesting pages

• Scholar's homepages & bibliographies
  • Emmerick bibliography
  • Charles Jones http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/Charles_E_Jones_CV.HTML
  • Heidemarie Koch www.uni-marburg.de/geschichte/ag/Koch.htm
  • Clarisse Herrenschmidt www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1801ch.html#bev (follow the link at the bottom of the page)
  • Antonio Panaino www.cbc.unibo.it/Bibliogr/Panaino/
  • Daniel T. Potts http://www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/people/staff_pages/dtp.html
  • Mirjo Salvini http://soi.cnr.it/~biblos/Bib-salv.html
  • Wiesehofer homepage
  • http://sources.vanderbilt.edu/profile.cfm?ID=1334 Jack M. Sasson, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Judaic Studies and Hebrew Bible; Professor of Classics
  • Skjaervo Iranian & Persian Studies
• Cuneiform encoding (refer also to Iniziative per la codifica digitale di testi antichi)
  • Encoding and Markup for Texts of the Ancient Near East
  • Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts
  • XSTAR http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/XSTAR/XSTAR.html
  • Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
  • www.jhu.edu/digitalhammurabi
  • http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/woolleysi/publications/vlcuneiform.pdf
    Communicating cuneiform: The evolution of a multimedia cuneiform database by S.I.Woolley, T.R.Davis, N.J.Flowers, J.Pinilla -Dutoit, A.Livingstone, T.N.Arvanitis for The Cuneiform Digital Forensic Project (CDFP) at The University of Birmingham.
  • Unicode, Ancient Languages and the WWW
• Iranian languages and scripts <http://iranianlanguages.com>
• The Minnesota Iranian Font Family Avesta, pahlavi, text reverser <http://cnes.cla.umn.edu/Iranian%20Pages/minnesota_iranian__font_family.htm>
• TITUS Is Testing Unicode Scriptmanagement
• Adoration of the Holy Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
• SLAVONIC ANTIQUITY by Sergei V. Rjabchikov <http://public.kubsu.ru/~usr02898/slavonic.htm>
• SAA IX Cover Illustration
• Ugaritic for Unicode
• Storia della Ragioneria
• Persia, 100 BCE, trade routes [89 links]
• Richard Wilson homepage
• ANE links - University of Tuebingen
• Assyrians after Assyria by S.Parpola
• Catalogo Mostra della Bibbia
• Selected Bibliography on Prehistory of Iranian and the Near East http://www.int-pub-iran.com/bibliography.htm
• Sumer and Akkad Cultural Annex to the Nippur Reading Room www.dubsar.com/nippur/rrannex.html
• Web Site Links Related to Mesopotamia or Language www.sumerian.org/sumlinks.htm
• Ayapir, the ancient town from Elamit period www.ayapir.com
• La pronuncia del latino www.ostraca.it/pronlat
• La pronuncia del greco www.ostraca.it/prongre
• Publications de l'Institut d'études iraniennes http://perso.wanadoo.fr/yann.richard/pub_IEI.html
• Ancient astronomy related sites
  • ANCIENT AND EARLY MEDIEVAL ECLIPSES IN EUROPEAN SOURCES http://hbar.phys.msu.su/gorm/atext/ginzele.htm
  • Solar Eclipses of Historical Interest by Fred Espenak http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEhistory/SEhistory.html
  • Delta T by Felix Verbelen http://user.online.be/felixverbelen/dt.htm
  • Astronomical Headlines (IAUC) http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Headlines.html
  • http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/

Fonts & Languages

• Classical Text Editor <www.oeaw.ac.at/kvk/cte/> [CDrom]
• IT Interlinear Text Editor by the Summer Institute of Linguistic www.sil.org/computing/catalog/it%5Fdos.html
• Keyboard hookers
  • Links to Fonts and Keyboards http://zsigri.tripod.com/fontboard/links.html
  • UNICODE and multilingual font and keyboard utilities http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/utilities_fonts.html#klm
  • Multikey www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/multikey/ [CDrom; Basel Unicode - Tastiera personalizzata per diacritici]
  • Antioch (Greek and Hebrew UNICODE keyboard utility) www.users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/antioch.htm [CDrom]
  • Tavutelsoft Keyman www.tavultesoft.com/keyman [CDrom]
  • Aksharamala www.aksharamala.com for Indic scripts
• UNICODE editors
  • Sharmahd Computing UniPad [CDrom]
  • UniEdit www.lang.duke.edu [CDrom]
  • EmEditor [CDrom]
    • Plug-ins List
• UNICODE charts
  • Code Charts (PDF Version) <www.unicode.org/charts/> [CDrom]
  • Find your diacritic <http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/database/unicode/unicsel.htm>
  • UTF-8 Reference Index <http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/utf8site/utf8site.htm> [CDrom]
• Fonts
  • Greek font archive <http://gainsford.tripod.com/archive.htm> [CDrom]
  • The History of Linguist’s Software's Greek and Hebrew Fonts <www.linguistsoftware.com/history.htm>
  • A list of Greek fonts from different sources <www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/gkfonts.htm>
  • A list of Hebrew fonts from different sources <www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/hebfonts.htm>
  • U+fonts devanagari
  • Fonts in Cyberspace
  • Dr. Berlin's Foreign Font Archive - Hieroglyphics
  • Greek fonts http://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~p3481184/greekg/fonts.htm
  • SIL Hebrew UNICODE font www.sil.org/computing/fonts/silhebruni/feat.htm
  • CODE 2001 UNICODE fonts http://home.att.net/~jameskass/code2001.htm [CDrom]
  • spionic_.ttf
  • My Unicode fonts http://bibliofile.mc.duke.edu/gww/fonts/Unicode.html
• Interesting resources
  • Omniglot A guide to writing systems
  • Talen Frames
  • VADA Software Talen A - D
  • VADA Software Talen
  • Unicode Home Page
  • LANGUAGES-ON-THE-WEB BEST BRAHUI LINKS
  • TRANSLATED.NET Dictionaries
  • Merriam-Webster-Franklin Spelling Help
  • International Phonetic Alphabet
  • IPA Home Page
  • Online Phonetics Course
  • Speech Analysis Tutorial
  • L i n g u i s t i c s @ UVic
  • IPA Help Contiene le tavole dell'alfabetico fonetico internazionale con la pronuncia dei simboli in file audio e una serie di test di riconoscimento.
  • 7 bit representation of the IPA
  • Links2Go International Phonetic Alphabet, The
  • Microsoft Products and Arabic Support <http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/arabicdev/>
• Text to speech
  • The MBROLA PROJECT HOMEPAGE
  • The Festival Speech Synthesis System
  • An Introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
  • Italian TTS by Piero Cosi http://nts.csrf.pd.cnr.it/TTS/Italian-TTS-MBROLA.htm
  • Digalo, Text to Speech http://www.digalo.com/Select_language.htm
  • Readplease

HTML & XML

• Histories of the World Wide Web
  • Internet Histories <www.isoc.org/internet/history/> [CDrom]
  • A Little History of the World Wide Web <www.w3.org/History.html> [CDrom]
• XML resources (elenco vergognosamente copiato da Peter XML Editor, Resources and links)
  • World wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/XML/
  • Oasis http://www.oasis-open.org/
  • XML Cover pages http://xml.coverpages.org/
  • XML.org http://www.xml.org
  • XMLFiles.com http://xmlfiles.com
  • XMLSoftware.com http://www.xmlsoftware.com
  • IBM's XML pages http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/
  • Microsoft's XML pages http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml
  • Sun's XML pages http://wwws.sun.com/software/xml/
  • PerfectXML.com http://www.perfectxml.com/
  • XML FAQ http://www.ucc.ie/xml/faq.xml
  • Tutorial http://www.w3schools.com/xml
  • Kickstart XML Tutorial http://www.spiderpro.com/bu/buxmlm001.html
  • Microsoft XML Tutorial http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/tutorial/default.asp
  • IBM Tutorial http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/education/xmlintro/xmlintro.html
• XML editors
  • Peter XML Editor www.iol.ie/~pxe/ [CDrom]
  • EditiX (JAVA) www.editix.com [CDrom]
  • XML Mind (JAVA) www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/ [CDrom]
  • Exchanger XML Editor (JAVA) www.exchangerxml.com/ [CDrom]
  • XML Spy www.altova.com/products_ide.html [CDrom]
  • <oXygen/> www.oxygenxml.com [CDrom]
  • Stylus Studio www.stylusstudio.com [CDrom]

©2000-2004 Copyright by Gian Pietro Basello
for ElamIT.net <www.elamit.net> (old URL: http://digilander.libero.it/elam)
Write to <elam@elamit.net>

san Giovanni in Persiceto, 28/VII/2001 (Bibliographical resources 6/X/2001; update and "systems of referencing" Napoli, 3/VII/2002; Napoli, 9-10/V/2004)