The Urkesh Global Record (Version 1, Beta release)

Introduction

Overview

Giorgio Buccellati – March 2025

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Two major distinctive features: primacy of units and interplanarity

the Balzan project –> cyb-mes.net

a new approach to websites –> domains –> project history –> for a website theory as a system of interconnected websites that replace the printed text not as a technical change, but as a conceptual system

here, not the theory, but some examples urkesh.org

first major change vis-a-vis traditional archaeological publishing: primacy of excavation unit

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1. The excavation unit

MZS intrasite –> units A16 size: A16 Intro –> Overview –> end of excavations –> general statistis

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Pages

–> discursive: UGR preface (“reading a website”) –> segmented: A12.16 –> sits in –> f83 –> a8 (grave, no photos, work in progress)

–> J5f21 –> v29 (template) –> v118 –> jW on July 25 –> lH on Sep 22 –> scroll to photos

–> UGR quantity –> Implementation –> Pages –> Occurrences (temp): disc. –> segmenteduantity –> Implementation –> Pages –> Occurrences (temp): disc. –> segmented

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Beyond excavation units

structures and topical

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Structures

AP –> Conservation –> synopsis

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Topical

TCR –> Bill Orrange –> Intro –> Data –> Urkesh corpus 345,867 items (vessels and sherds analyzed, from all unit books) –> Ceramic book corpus –> by context –> Phase 7s –> scroll down (NO LINK) –> A15 –> Indices and frequencies –> ware –> total –> 37410 Chaff Tempered –> i3 –> overall shapes –> jar 42% –> i27

TGL –> Data –> field number –> A6 scroll down –> A6.63 –> Roster –> Lexicon: identification of figures: animal –> A12 –> Typology –> objects –> glyptics

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2. Interplanarity: The system as a whole

–> UGR –> RHS

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Theory

–> GRM –> The Data/matrix, aggregation/re-structuring –> Stratigraphy –> emplacement –> dD –> expand menu –> Conclusion

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Bibliography

–> CAR –> Bibliography –> total, scroll –> left index: Kant –> monograph –> excerpts –> MEL –> articles by staff members –> fAB 2012 abstract full text –> scroll –> links within discursive A12/Typology/glyptics –> and within segmented: A14.239

broader implications symposium: HANDOUT

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