AlexWalhai/CUC

Copenhagen Ugaritic Corpus

A line-by-line corpus of Ugaritic alphabetic-cuneiform texts (Ras Shamra), keyed to the KTU numbering (Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit). Each row is one text line, given in both Latin transliteration and Ugaritic cuneiform, with markup distinguishing restored/damaged and uncertain readings.

• 279 tablets, 7,616 lines.
• Built from Copenhagen Ugaritic Corpus v0.2.7 Text-Fabric data.
• Source project: DT-UCPH/cuc

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("AlexWalhai/cuc", split="train")
print(ds[0]["text"])           # transliteration
print(ds[0]["ugaritic_text"])  # cuneiform

# all lines of one tablet, in order
ktu_1_1 = ds.filter(lambda r: r["tablet"] == "KTU 1.1")

Columns

column	type	description
row_id	int64	globally unique row index
tablet	string	KTU tablet id, e.g. KTU 1.1
column	string	column reference (Roman numeral), e.g. II
line	int64	line number within the column
ref	string	full reference, e.g. KTU 1.1 II 1
text	string	Latin transliteration
ugaritic_text	string	Ugaritic cuneiform (Unicode)
text_html	string	transliteration with bracket/uncertainty markup
ugaritic_text_html	string	cuneiform with bracket/uncertainty markup

The HTML variants wrap restorations in <span class="bracket"> and uncertain sign readings in <span class="uncertain"> for rendered display.

Build

build_parquet.py builds data/cuc.parquet directly from the upstream CUC Text-Fabric data (release v0.2.7) — no intermediate files. Text-Fabric fetches the corpus to ~/text-fabric-data/github/DT-UCPH/cuc/tf/:

python build_parquet.py            # uses ~/text-fabric-data/.../tf/0.2.7
python build_parquet.py /path/to/cuc/tf/0.2.7   # or an explicit TF data dir

License

MIT. Underlying KTU references follow Dietrich, Loretz & Sanmartín, The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit (KTU³).