# Vinča sign corpus (Vinca.xml, from Winn 1981)

> The only open machine-readable corpus of Vinča signs: 591 inscribed objects from Turdaș, Vinča, Banjica, Divostin and three minor sites, encoded in XML…

Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDVGHHT4NE/vinca-sign-corpus-vinca-xml-from-winn-1981  
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# Vinča sign corpus (Vinca.xml, from Winn 1981)

The only open machine-readable corpus of Vinča signs: 591 inscribed objects from Turdaș, Vinča, Banjica, Divostin and three minor sites, encoded in XML from Winn's 1981 catalogue by Wu, Solman, Linehan and Sproat. 804 sign tokens, 185 sign types (Winn's numbers), object class and reading order where known. Apache 2.0. Part of Sproat's bundle of eight non-linguistic symbol corpora.

![Vinča signs](https://mysteriesdept.com/media/folio/vinca-signs-lead)**Vinča signs** Version **1.0** Licence **Apache-2.0** Updated **31 Oct 2026**

## Use it

```
import pandas as pd

url = "https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDVGHHT4NE/vinca-sign-corpus-vinca-xml-from-winn-1981/v1.0.txt"
tokens = pd.read_csv(url)
tokens.head()
```

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