# Enrique Jiménez · Person

> Assyriologist at LMU Munich who leads the electronic Babylonian Library and its Fragmentarium. In The unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the…

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# Enrique Jiménez

Assyriologist at LMU Munich who leads the electronic Babylonian Library and its Fragmentarium.

[The unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform)[3 events][3 sources]

Enrique Jiménez is spanish Assyriologist, professor of Ancient Near Eastern Literatures at LMU Munich since 2018, Sofja Kovalevskaja laureate 2017, director of the electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) and co-author of its fragment-matching and sign-detection papers, and appears in the record of unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian as assyriologist at LMU Munich who leads the electronic Babylonian Library and its Fragmentarium.

Three events on the site involve Jiménez, from Enrique Jiménez starts the electronic Babylonian Library project at Munich (Apr 2018) to Che and colleagues run a sign detector over 87,668 eBL fragments, producing 2.9 million sign detections (21 Jun 2026).

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## In the mysteries

**The unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian**

Assyriologist at LMU Munich who leads the electronic Babylonian Library and its Fragmentarium. · 3 events

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform)

## What Enrique Jiménez did 3

Apr 2018[Enrique Jiménez starts the electronic Babylonian Library project at Munich](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDPG548EGZ/enrique-jimenez-starts-the-electronic-babylonian-library)

Jan 2023[The eBL Fragmentarium opens to the public with about 22,000 processed fragments](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDPH5XBF7V/the-ebl-fragmentarium-opens-to-the-public-with-about-22-000)

at [British Museum, London](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/places/PLC0DEDN19B9HCV/british-museum-london)

21 Jun 2026[Che and colleagues run a sign detector over 87,668 eBL fragments, producing 2.9 million sign detections](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDPJRJAWX9/che-and-colleagues-run-a-sign-detector-over-87-668-ebl)

## Places 1

[British Museum, London](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/places/PLC0DEDN19B9HCV/british-museum-london)

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## Sources 3

[Automated sign detection across the Electronic Babylonian Library: A large-scale dataset and end-to-end cuneiform OCR pipeline](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGCC49XMN/automated-sign-detection-across-the-electronic-babylonian)

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[Electronic Babylonian Literature: playing with the source of world literature](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGS748FDC/electronic-babylonian-literature-playing-with-the-source-of)

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

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Spanish Assyriologist, professor of Ancient Near Eastern Literatures at LMU Munich since 2018, Sofja Kovalevskaja laureate 2017, director of the electronic Babylonian Library (eBL) and co-author of its fragment-matching and sign-detection papers

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