Borsippa: Archival Texts of the Priests of Borsippa

This repository contains a copy of the data published as the project "Borsippa: Archival Texts of the Priests of Borsippa" on the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc). The project offers editions of 224 texts from the priestly archives of Borsippa, published by Caroline Waerzeggers in The Ezida Temple of Borsippa: Priesthood, Cult, Archives (Achaemenid History 15), 2010. The texts are dated from the reign of Ashurbanipal (668–631? BCE) until the second year of Xerxes (484 BCE), and they are part of the archives of brewers, bakers, butchers, and oxherds working at the temple of Nabû. The cuneiform tablets originate from illicit excavations at Borsippa (Birs Nimrud) in the late 19th century, and they primarily belong to the collections of the British Museum.

The Borsippa project was a joint effort by the ERC Starting Grant project BABYLON and the Research Council of Finland Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires. The BABYLON project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (grant agreement no. 241118). The Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires has been funded by the Research Council of Finland (decision nos. 312051, 336673, and 352747).

The lemmatization of the text corpus was started by Bastian Still and Caroline Waerzeggers and completed by Tero Alstola, Ellie Bennett, Céline Debourse, Julia Giessler, and Evelien Vanderstraeten. Linda Leinonen and Senja Salmi assisted in creating the text metadata.