# Electronic Babylonian Literature: playing with the source of world literature

> Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2023. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. LMU news release, 30 January 2023, announcing the public release…

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[Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform)Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2023

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# Electronic Babylonian Literature: playing with the source of world literature

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2023.

**Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian** Webpage0

## What it's used for here

LMU news release, 30 January 2023, announcing the public release of the eBL Fragmentarium: about 22,000 fragments processed since 2018, thousands more photographed with the British Museum and Iraq Museum; the algorithm identified a fragment of the latest known Gilgamesh tablet (130 BC) in November 2022 and 15 new fragments of a hymn to Babylon; Jiménez says thousands of fragments remain unidentified. Used for the Fragmentarium's scale and first results.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[The Kuyunjik collection fragments (British Museum K., Sm., Rm. and DT numbers)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/artifacts/ART0DEDQZ0V8QWY/the-kuyunjik-collection-fragments-british-museum-k-sm-rm-and)

ART

[The eBL project reports about 1,500 fragment joins in five years against about 5,000 in the previous 150 years, each…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEDY2047S74/the-ebl-project-reports-about-1-500-fragment-joins-in-five)

Evidence

EVD

[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)

EVT

[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)

EVT

[Enrique Jiménez](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/people/FIG0DEDNESA3K4W/enrique-jimenez)

FIG

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

The mystery article

MYS

## Cite it

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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (2023). Electronic Babylonian Literature: playing with the source of world literature. https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/electronic-babylonian-literature-playing-with-the-source-of-world-literature-4d9706d5.html
```

[Find it at lmu.de](https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/electronic-babylonian-literature-playing-with-the-source-of-world-literature-4d9706d5.html)

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**SRC** 0DEDGS748FDC

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