The CNA Database

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Background
The concept is simple. Scholars have always kept files of transliterations and indices to the texts they were working on. The problem was that each scholar had to make his own files and index them, a process that consumed most of an academic career. A generous scholar might allow others the use of the files, but in general they were too cumbersome to be moved about and too large to be easily copied. The computer has made a large part of this impediment to scholarship obsolete. Once the transliterations of texts have be stored in electronic format, they can easily be moved anywhere or quickly and accurately copied. But the biggest advantage of an electronic database of transliterations is that it is no longer necessary to create elaborate indexes to the files since the computer can search the files for a given entry in a miniscule fraction of the time it would take to do this by hand.
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Texts in Neo-Assyrian in the CNA Database 
        Total   Total   Overhd  Comment Comment Text    Text
File    Bytes   Lines   Bytes   Lines   Bytes   Lines   Bytes   Description

adm1    258733  6474    97110   1488    34228   4986    127395  Nineveh admin SAA 7
adm2    207100  5304    79560   1241    27272   4063    100268  Nineveh admin SAA 11
adm_clh 299843  7428    111420  1629    42151   5799    146272  Calah admin
assur   372999  9478    142170  1890    34162   7588    196667  Assur texts
eponyms 63332   1390    20850   48      1774    1342    40708   eponym canon
grants  173044  3271    49065   535     15560   2736    108419  royal grants SAA 12
inscr   20331   389     5835    48      877     341     13619   royal inscrptions
las     381038  9344    140160  1151    19817   8193    221061  letters SAA 10
leg_adm 195250  4811    72165   845     17740   3966    105345  misc legal & admin
leg_clh 264499  6526    97890   1137    26230   5389    140379  Calah legal
legal1  414977  9009    135135  1925    41419   7084    238423  Nineveh legal SAA 6
legal2  423752  10207   153105  2547    44636   7660    226011  Nineveh legal SAA 14
lexical 88156   2583    38745   248     5519    2335    43892   lexical
lit1    177418  3174    47610   305     10520   2869    119288  literary SAA 3
lit2    14097   279     4185    41      1043    238     8869    addenda
ltr_a   28696   792     11880   279     3864    513     12952   letters SAA 16
nl      136312  3406    51090   313     5201    3093    80021   Calah lettters
polit   305956  7386    110790  994     16851   6392    178315  letters SAA 16, SAA 18, (SAA 20), (SAA 21)
priests 167061  4156    62340   573     8460    3583    96261   letters SAA 13
proph   33744   778     11670   72      1950    706     20124   prophecies (SAA 9)
queries1 305958 5991    89865   629     13485   5362    202608  queries SAA 4
queries2 4271   86      1290    30      776     56      2205    addenda
rit     242048  4778    71670   608     21171   4170    149207  rituals (SAA 19)
rma     391909  9120    136800  2437    48582   6683    206528  reports SAA 8
sargon_n 284842 7217    108255  1506    16904   5711    159683  letters SAA 5
sargon_s 360255 9070    136050  2242    25358   6828    198847  letters SAA 15, SAA 17
sargon_w 284120 7006    105090  1286    14759   5720    164271  letters SAA 1
treaties 76165  1321    19815   138     5441    1183    50909   treaties SAA 2


        Total   Total   Overhd  Comment Comment Text    Text
        Bytes   Lines   Bytes   Lines   Bytes   Lines   Bytes
Totals  5975906 140774  2111610 26185   505749  114589  3358547
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Sample Database Entry 
ABL 0196  M   &K 00125
ABL 0196  W   &sae
ABL 0196  P   &u
ABL 0196   001 [a-na] <LUGAL> EN-ia
ABL 0196   002 [ARAD-ka 1=d=30]--PAB-ME`_--SU%
ABL 0196   003 <lu> [@ul-mu a-na] LUGAL+ EN-ia
ABL 0196   004 @ul-[mu a-na KUR]--a@-@ur=KI
ABL 0196   005 @ul-[mu a-na] E2.KUR-ME`
ABL 0196   006 @ul-mu a-na URU=bi-rat @a LUGAL gab-bu
ABL 0196   007 `A3-bu @a LUGAL EN-ia a--dan-ni@ lu DUG3.GA
ABL 0196   008 LU2%=MAH-ME`-ni KUR%=ku-mu-ha-a.a
ABL 0196   009 it-tal-ku-ni ma-da-tu2 na-$u-ni/v
ABL 0196   010 07 u2-ra%-te @a AN`E=ku-din is-se-ni@
ABL 0196   011 na-$u-u-ni/v ma-da-tu2 TA%_+ AN`E=ku-din
ABL 0196   012 E2 1=KUR=ku-mu-ha-a.a pa-aq-du
ABL 0196   013 LU2%=MAH-ME`-ni ina `A3-bi-@u @u-nu
ABL 0196   014 NINDA-ME` @a ra-me-ni-@u2-nu e-kul
ABL 0196   015 i-ma-ta-hu-ne2-e a-na URU=KA2.DINGIR.RA
ABL 0196   016 u2+_-ba%-lu-ni/v u2!-la-a an-na-ka
ABL 0196   017 i-ma-ha-ru&-@u-nu a-ki @a_ LUGAL EN
ABL 0196   018 i!-qa-bu-u-ni ar2-hi@ li@-pa-ru+-ni
ABL 0196   019 SIG2-ME` LUM.LUM-ME`+ is-se-ni@ na-$u-u-ni/v
ABL 0196   020 LU2%=DAM.QAR+-ME` iq-#i2-bu-u-ni
ABL 0196   021 ma-a 07 GU2.UN TA%_+ `A3+-bi ni-ib-ti%-ar
ABL 0196  E022 ma-a KUR=ku-mu-ha-a.a la im-ma-gur2
ABL 0196  E023 ma-a ma-a'--at-tu2-nu la ta++-bi-ra
ABL 0196  E024 ma-a lu-bi-lu MI2=U`.BAR-ME`-te
ABL 0196  R001 @a LUGAL am-ma-kam!-ma! li-be2-<e!-ru!>
ABL 0196  R002 LUGAL EN li@-pu-ra a-na ma-an-ni
ABL 0196  R003 i-da-nu-@i-na-a-ni
ABL 0196  R   &rest uninscribed

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