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1. Bibliography on Urkesh/E-Library

This list displays in alphabetical order the authors of the contributions mentioned in the following list (each number links to a singular contribution).

For further information about digitality applied to the site of Urkesh, see the dedicated topical page “digital thought”.

For a punctual query, cf. pages “Keywords” and “SEARCH/Topics”.

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Alphabetical List

Buccellati, Federico: 1
Buccellati, Giorgio: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5

Kelly-Buccellati, Marilyn: 1; 2

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Bibliographical entries

The following entries are displayed in chronological order; you can easily find above the publications listed in alphabetical order.

G. Buccellati and M. Kelly-Buccellati
2001
 “The Royal Palace at Urkesh and the Daughter of Naram-Sin,”
Les annales archéologiques arabes syriennes: revue d'archéologie et d'histoire [Damascus: Ministère de la Culture, Direction Générale des Antiqués et des Musées] 44, pp. 63-69.
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This paper presents sealings with the names of Tar’am-Agade (daughter of Naram-Sin), of Ewrim-Atal, and of Ishar-beli; moreover, the ceramic of the third millennium is briefly presented, the seriation of sherds suggesting a considerable degree of continuity within the third millennium BC; afterwards, the authors offer a description of some other main structures: a large royal building, the Storeroom AK, a large courtyard, the 'formal' wing of the Palace, a platform and an apsidal structure, and sector C (within the service wing of building AK) interpreted as a scribal place. Computer network and digital photography are also applied in this paper to the analysis of archaeological artefacts.
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in P. Butterlin et al. (eds.), Les espaces syro-mésopotamiens: dimensions de l'experience humaine au proche-orient ancien : volume d'hommage offert à Jean-Claude MargueronUrkesh also for ceramic recording. This coherent system led to the creation of a 'digital database of pottery' which consists of 'minimal constituents', 'frequencies', and 'correlations' allowing a whole understanting of the ceramic assemblage at Urkesh.
, Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 49-55.
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The recording system for data from Tell Mozan's excavation bases on a digital perspective structured within the frame of the so-called 'Urkesh Global Record', a 'browser edition' set up by means of a specific 'grammar' and of a 'structured fluidity' of the archaeological record.
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 “The Ceramics of Urkesh: Statistics for a Browser Edition,”
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style="{text-align: left}"> G. Buccellati
2010ic Analysis of the Ebla Texts,”
in Lucio Milano (ed.), 		“The Question of Digital Thought,”commitment to digitize the texts of the Ebla archive was made very early, during the first meeting, in 1977, of the International Committee for the Publication of the Texts of Ebla, just two years after the discovery of the archive. That was my specific task within the Committee, and the goal was to provide the colleagues with a computerized data base that could be used as an in-house resource. This was in line with a similar research project I had undertaken in 1968 with regard to Old Babylonian letters, and in working on both projects it became clear that graphemic analysis was an indispensable component of this research. On the one hand, it was necessary to develop coding and tagging procedures that would allow for a more coherent definition of the data than was possible with the standard transliteration system (the numerals being a case in point). On the other, it became immediately clear how desirable it was to exploit fully the unsuspected potential of the system as a way to develop a more clearly articulated approach to graphemics analysis as such”.

in Tatiana M. Nikolaeva (ed.), Studies in Linguistics and Semiotics. A Festschrift for Vyacheslav V. Ivanovirable it was to exploit fully the unsuspected potential of the system as a way to develop a more clearly articulated approach to graphemics analysis as such”.
, Moscow: Languages Slavic Cultures, pp. 46-55.
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     Digital thought represents the core of this contribution: after a first step when writing was invented, human beings experimented the birth of “extra-somatic embodiment of intellectual constructs”, i.e. 'things', intended as “an object independent of the mental processes that had produced them” (p. 46). The second fundamental step was represented by the introduction of the printing pressci, Guido (eds), , providing a wider public with a larger 'publication' of information and thoughts. The third step is represented by the introduction of computers and the diffusion of a 'digital thought', characterized by wider aspects of discontinuityBR> and fluidity/urkesh.org/attach/BuccellatiF2019b.pdf" target="_blank">, leading to a fragmentation.pdf" target="_blank"> and integrationee full text, influenced by features of non-linearitybsp; “The article presents an examination of the cost of construction, in terms of working hours and manpower, of three contemporary 2 (for which see suprapresents an examination of the cost of construction, in terms of working hours and manpower, of three contemporary 2, Buccellati 2007], strictly connected to a specific 'grammar'culated using energetic algorithms from the EnCAB digital publication” (Author's abstract on p. 85).
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valign="top" style="{text-align: left}"> G. Buccellati
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 “Digital Edition and Graphemic Analysis of the Ebla Texts,”>
in Lucio Milano (ed.), Archivi Reali di Eblaarticle presents an examination of the cost of construction, in terms of working hours and manpower, of three contemporary 2, (ARED), Edizione digitale 1, Cybernetica Mesopotamica, CD 4, Malibu: Undena Publicationsprivate houses from areas TA and TB at Nippur, calculated using energetic algorithms from the EnCAB digital publication” (Author's abstract on p. 85).
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     “The commitment to digitize the texts of the Ebla archive was made very early, during the first meeting, in 1977, of the International Committee for the Publication of the Texts of Ebla, just two years after the discovery of the archive. That was my specific task within the Committee, and the goal was to provide the colleagues with a computerized data base that could be used as an in-house resource. This was in line with a similar research project I had undertaken in 1968 with regard to Old Babylonian letters, and in working on both projects it became clear that graphemic analysis was an indispensable component of this research. On the one hand, it was necessary to develop coding and tagging procedures that would allow for a more coherent definition of the data than was possible with the standard transliteration system (the numerals being a case in point). On the other, it became immediately clear how desirable it was to exploit fully the unsuspected potential of the system as a way to develop a more clearly articulated approach to graphemics analysis as such”.
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style="{text-align: left}"> F. Buccellati
2019Case of Excavation Reports,”
in Nadja Cholidis, Elisabeth Katzy, and Sabina Kulemann-Ossen (eds.),
“Houses of Nippur: An Architectural Study using EnCAB,”k)
in Valentini, Stefano and Guarducci, Guido (eds), Between Syria and the Highlands. Studies in Honor of Giorgio Buccellati & Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati concerning the topic of , SANEMt 3 After a discussion about the very concept of “digital” and , Arbor Sapientiae Editore, Roma, pp. 85-91.
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     “The article presents an examination of the cost of construction, in terms of working hours and manpower, of three contemporary 2nd millennium private houses from areas TA and TB at Nippur, calculated using energetic algorithms from the EnCAB digital publication” (Author's abstract on p. 85).
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Zwischen Ausgrabung und Ausstellung. Beiträge zur Archäologie Vorderasiens. Festschrift für Lutz Martinpaper by Paolo Paolini), the author deals with the concept of , marru Paolini), the author deals with the concept of : Studien zur Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Vol. 9, Münster: Zaphon, pp. 247-258.
ISBN 978-3-96327-108-3 (Book) / ISBN 978-3-96327-109-0 (E-Book)e held on November 16, 2021 at the "Politecnico di Milano" (Italy); the recording of this event can be found at the following
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This paper presents many issues concerning the topic of digital publication of an excavation reporte="BuccellatiGforth-a">. After a discussion about the very concept of “digital” and conceptual digitalityp" style="{text-align: left}">, involving themes such as those of categorization0000"> and exo- and endogenous		 dimension of digitality (static vs. dynamic), the author moves to the presetation of the case of a browser edition/b> offering as an example that of the Urkesh Global Record (UGR)xt (restricted access: PW requested)restricted access: PW requested) [see here/mz/a/mz/texts/staff/mDP.htm" target="_blank"> for a video on this topic]; this system allows to reach a better and dynamic data gathering, leading to this final conclusion: “Thus it is that the question of digitality becomes imperative for data gathering more than in perhaps any other case, given the necessity of having a system that maintains every single observation ever made during the excavation process. True digitality becomes then an issue that goes well beyond theory and abstraction, and becomes instead a most concrete imperative for keeping the archaeological process within the framework of an arguable analytical process.” (p. 255).
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     In this paper (supplemented with and editorial by Danila Iacovelli and a commentary paper by Paolo Paolini), the author deals with the concept of "digital discourse"inks to other relevant webpages regarding the topic of the present page (i.e., and the new oppurtunities that digitality provides us to better understand and study ancient history. The contribution discusses the historical importance of the birth of languagerg/main/main3a.htm" target="_blank"> and logical thought"_blank">, which “marks a radical change in the relationship to nature” (p. 128), and the later "invention" of writingref="https://d-discourse.net/preface.htm" target="_blank">, which is seen as a mean by which “actions and abstract concepts can also be so coded and referenced to” (p. 129). Digitality (and the related digital thought) enables us to further extend our capabilities in knowing and communicating, since it allows to link a fragment of information to a coherent whole by active ("searching") and passive means ("hyperlinks"). In the third section of this paper, the author explains the difference between an "electronic discourse" (e-discourse, which “refers to a human discourse applied to data that are available in electronic format”, p. 134) and a "digital discourse" (d-discourse, which is “a discourse that is in itself structured digitally”, p. 134). In the last section, the author presents his "multi-planar model/argument", which represents “our ability to perceive the whole through an immensely greater univers of fragments” (p. 139), a new approach and methodology which can be applied to websites as a “new 'form' of humanism [which] will truly trans-form our way knowing reality, our epistemology” (p. 139).
     [This paper is the result of a conference held on November 16, 2021 at the "Politecnico di Milano" (Italy); the recording of this event can be found at the following linkality, divided into two parts: Part 1n/main3a.htm" target="_blank"> and Part 2ref="https://4banks.net/" target="_blank">.]
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G. Buccellati
forthc.
 “Umanesimo digitale. I frammenti in-discorso con il tutto,”
UCSC.
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2. Links to multimidia outside Urkesh/E-Library. AVASA

This section offers links to other relevant webpages regarding the topic of the present page (i.e., digitality related to Urkesh/Tell Mozan).

  1. Topical section "digital thought".
  2. Companion website (4banks hub) "d-discourse" (= "digital discourse).

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