A new article published in the Journal of Open Humanities Data by T. Alstola, A. Sahala, PI J. Valk, and M. Ong is now available at openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/.../10.5334/... The article presents the methods and workflow for semi-automatic linguistic annotation of Akkadian cuneiform texts.

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We are pleased to announce Jonathan Valk’s publication of 'Ancient Assyrians Identity and Society in Antiquity and Beyond' with @universitypress.cambridge.org . The book discusses the development of Assyrian identity across the second millennium BCE.  https://aramaization.csic.es/ancient-assyrians/

On 12 December, Principal Investigator Jonathan Valk presented on 'Akkadian and Aramaic in Assyria: Between the Written and the Spoken Word' at the Seminarios MIHCA at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. https://aramaization.csic.es/seminarios-mihca-at-ucm

We’re excited to introduce our ERC-funded Starting Grant project, ARAMAIZATION, hosted at the @csic.es @cchscsic.bsky.social Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East (ILC).  We look forward to sharing our progress with you here soon. https://aramaization.csic.es/