Modules

Transforming the Tablet: Digital Approaches to Ancient Text and Artefact (HUM3004)

15 credits

This module introduces you to digital editing and to hands-on experience of some of the key digital tools we can use to analyse texts and artefacts from the ancient world. The module considers how we can deal with texts that are often fragmentary or complex, addressing the editorial process, encoding methods, and (depending on the year) analysis of object surfaces, 3D modelling of artefacts,  annotation methods, and questions of resource design, including theoretical debates about statistical and symbolic approaches to semantic search. You may choose to use texts in the original language or in translation: no prior knowledge of an ancient language is required, though an interest in how we study ancient primary sources is anticipated.