# The matcher works on transliterations: three Maqlû manuscripts were found among about 27,000 transliterated fragments…

> The matcher works on transliterations: three Maqlû manuscripts were found among about 27,000 transliterated fragments, and the project reports about…

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# The matcher works on transliterations: three Maqlû manuscripts were found among about 27,000 transliterated fragments…

The matcher works on transliterations: three Maqlû manuscripts were found among about 27,000 transliterated fragments, and the project reports about 1,500 joins in five years.

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## What it means

Key question[Can the broken tablets of Babylonian literature be reassembled by automated matching of fragments?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT3VBZYJY/can-the-broken-tablets-of-babylonian-literature-be)

2 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[Matching works, but only on transliterated fragments](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/answers/ANS0DEEAA05JR5T/matching-works-but-only-on-transliterated-fragments)

Supports1 for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## Next steps 1

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Ask eBL for a precision/recall figure of the n-gram matcher against pre-2018 joins.

~2 h

[On: Can the broken tablets of Babylonian literature be reassembled by automated matching of fragments?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDT3VBZYJY/can-the-broken-tablets-of-babylonian-literature-be)

**—** not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 2

[AI is helping us read ancient Mesopotamian literature](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGTTRNMP2/ai-is-helping-us-read-ancient-mesopotamian-literature)

team 2023

SRC

[Reconstruction of Cuneiform Literary Texts as Text Matching](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGT58C4F7/reconstruction-of-cuneiform-literary-texts-as-text-matching)

Simonjetz et al. 2024

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The matcher works on transliterations: three Maqlû manuscripts were found among about 27,000 transliterated fragments… [Evidence EVD0DEEAXQEF6RJ]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEEAXQEF6RJ
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