| --- |
| 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](https://github.com/DT-UCPH/cuc) |
|
|
| ## Usage |
|
|
| ```python |
| 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`](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/`: |
|
|
| ```bash |
| 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). |
|
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