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SumTablets: Sumerian glyph-to-transliteration pairs (91,606 tablets)

91,606 Sumerian tablets from ePSD2/ORACC as Unicode cuneiform glyphs paired with transliterations, with period and genre labels, CC BY 4.0; the test split (4,577 tablets, 5.9 MB CSV) is stored here.

Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of SumerianUnread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of SumerianVersion 1.0Licence CC-BY-4.0Updated 31 Oct 2026

Use it

import pandas as pd

url = "https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDS6N6Y5VY/sumtablets-sumerian-glyph-to-transliteration-pairs-91-606/v1.0.csv"
tokens = pd.read_csv(url)
tokens.head()

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