Datasets:

AlexWalhai
/

CUC

language:
  - uga
pretty_name: Copenhagen Ugaritic Corpus
license: mit
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
task_categories:
  - fill-mask
  - text-generation
tags:
  - Ugaritic
  - Semitic
  - dead-language
  - ancient-language
  - ANE
  - epigraphy
  - cuneiform
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/cuc.parquet
dataset_info:
  config_name: default
  features:
    - name: row_id
      dtype: int64
    - name: tablet
      dtype: string
    - name: column
      dtype: string
    - name: line
      dtype: int64
    - name: ref
      dtype: string
    - name: text
      dtype: string
    - name: ugaritic_text
      dtype: string
    - name: text_html
      dtype: string
    - name: ugaritic_text_html
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 2763363
      num_examples: 7616
  download_size: 574013
  dataset_size: 2763363

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).