Cuneiform Software

Advanced Electronic Cuneiform Processing Projects

Welcome to this page of information about Massimo Pompeo's two world-leading projects in the Cuneiform Languages, TCD (The Cuneiform Dictionary) and TCT (The Cuneiform Texts Resources).

Massimo has created two highly-developed Windows software programs that offer unique help to the student/scholar working with 1) cuneiform tablets or transcriptions, and 2) transliterated Sumerian language texts. Students and scholars can download and register these two programs from the The Sumerian Language Page web site.

The Cuneiform Dictionary

This is the only (2005) interactive cuneiform dictionary in the world. Any sign -broken or not- can usually be found in less than 1 second, or 10 seconds from when you choose to search for it (if you follow carefully the TCD tutorial, spending at least 5 mins on it). If you have spent any frustrated time leafing through a sign list in search of a particular cuneiform sign, you will appreciate the speed with which this $39 sign-matching program works.

This is a small preview of The Cuneiform Dictionary: basically, the user draws a few wedges (cunei) on the left area, and TCD shows which signs are similar to the designed shape, while you continue designing. Signs are selected by their similarity with the shape that you draw.

The Cuneiform Dictionary comes with a large dictionary of Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform signs. The program is not free, but at $39, it is reasonably-priced.

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The Cuneiform Texts Resources

This is the only (2005) Text Engine that searches both textual references and text parallels. It can also search transliterated text for sign sequences, regardless of the way in which signs are transliterated!

TCT is free on private, non-shared non-commercial non-public entities machines usage.

This is a small preview of The Cuneiform Texts Resources: basically, the user can enter an expression to look for, either a small sentence or a word sequence, and TCT looks for such expression within a specially compiled text dictionary. The search engine is fault-tolerant, so it searches also for similar expressions. It can also look for sequences of signs, regardless of their reading.

TCT is a free program that currently supports searching 2,700 lines of Sumerian text from Gudea, 31,700 lines of Sumerian literature from the ETCSL, and 66,000 lines of Old Sumerian text from the CDLI. The full $195 registered installation which is required for institutional/commercial entities or shared machines additionally supports searching 583,000 lines of Ur III text from the CDLI and 609,000 lines of all types of text from the PSD.

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