# Logan Born 2021: A Quantitative Analysis of Proto-Cuneiform Sign Use in Archaic Tribute

> Logan Born, Kathryn Kelley, 2021. 6 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Updated sign-frequency list for the whole CDLI proto-cuneiform corpus (6,726…

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# A Quantitative Analysis of Proto-Cuneiform Sign Use in Archaic Tribute

Logan Born, Kathryn Kelley, 2021.

**Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk** Article0

## What it's used for here

Updated sign-frequency list for the whole CDLI proto-cuneiform corpus (6,726 artifacts, 5,274 with readable signs, about 53,000 non-numerical tokens as of May 2020), an open counting tool, and a test showing the Tribute list's first section uses sign pairs rare in administrative texts. Cuneiform Digital Library Bulletin 2021:6.

## Cited by on this site 6 records

[The archaic lexical lists: Professions (Lu A) and Tribute (Word List C)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/artifacts/ART0DEDRFTRF0WB/the-archaic-lexical-lists-professions-lu-a-and-tribute-word)

ART

[The first third of the Tribute list uses sign pairs that are rare in administrative texts (mean 15 tablets against 87…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DEE9K9F7X14/the-first-third-of-the-tribute-list-uses-sign-pairs-that-are)

Evidence

EVD

[Born and Kelley publish a sign-frequency tool for the whole CDLI corpus](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/events/EVT0DEDQS8SMHC0/born-and-kelley-publish-a-sign-frequency-tool-for-the-whole)

EVT

[Kathryn Kelley](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/people/FIG0DEDPE2D5EK8/kathryn-kelley)

FIG

[Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform)

The mystery article

MYS

[Do the compound signs (two or more simple signs written inside or beside one another) carry meanings beyond their components, and do they behave like one sign or two in the statistics?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/questions/QST0DEDTDVCMAK1/do-the-compound-signs-two-or-more-simple-signs-written)

Question

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## Cite it

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Logan Born, & Kathryn Kelley (2021). A Quantitative Analysis of Proto-Cuneiform Sign Use in Archaic Tribute. https://cdli.earth/articles/cdlb/2021-6
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[Find it at cdli.earth](https://cdli.earth/articles/cdlb/2021-6)

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