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The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), a project of the University of Oxford, comprises a selection of nearly 400 literary compositions recorded on sources which come from ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and date to the late third and early second millennia BCE.</p> <p>The corpus contains Sumerian texts in transliteration, English prose translations and bibliographical information for each composition. The transliterations and the translations can be searched, browsed and read online using the tools of the website.</p> <p>Funding for the ETCSL project came to an end in the summer of 2006 and no work is currently being done to this site or its contents.</p> <p>For more information, see the About ETCSL menu or the <a href="edition2/etcslsitemap.html" style="font-size: 110%">site map</a>.</p> <p>In 2017, the Faculty of Oriental Studies IT Department carried a series of changes to the ETCSL backend, including upgrading the code to work on PHP7, the latest version of the software. Should you see any issues with the website, please contact us on the details on the General Info page. </p> </td> <td width="280" align="left" valign="top"> <h4>Browsing and searching the corpus</h4> <p><a href="edition2/etcslbycat.php" title="List corpus by category"><img class="cc" src="edition2/jpg/ccbc.jpg" alt="List corpus by category" border="0"/></a></p> <p><a href="edition2/etcslbynumb.php" title="List corpus by number"><img class="cc" src="edition2/jpg/ccbn.jpg" alt="List corpus by number" border="0"/></a></p> <p> </p> <form name="searchform" action="cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"> <p><img src="edition2/gif/arrowr.gif" alt="Arrow" border="0"/> <a href="cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?charenc=gcirc&simplesearch=translation" title="Go to simple search">Simple search</a>:<br/> <input name="simplesearchword" type="text" size="20" value=""/><input type="hidden" name="simplesearch" value="translation"/></p> <p><img src="edition2/gif/arrowr.gif" alt="Arrow" border="0"/> <a href="cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?charenc=gcirc" title="Go to advanced search">Advanced search</a>: <br/><input name="searchword" type="text" size="20" value=""/><input name="charenc" type="hidden" value="gcirc"/></p> <p>Word lists, sign list<br/>and full catalogue:<br/> <select name="lists"> <option value=""></option> <option value="lemmalist">Glossary</option> <option value="emesallist">Emesal glossary</option> <option value="propernounslist">List of proper nouns</option> <option value="signlist">Sign list (> 700 pics)</option> <option value="fullcatalogue">Full catalogue</option> </select> <input name="submitbutton" type="button" onclick="SubmitForm();" value="Go" title="Start search or show list"/></p> </form> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div id="Footer"> <table width="740" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr> <td width="20%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href="http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/"><img src="edition2/jpg/emegir15-c3.jpg" height="40" alt="eme-gir15" border="0" title="eme-gir15"/></a></td> <td width="60%" align="center" valign="bottom"><p class="smaller">© Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 The ETCSL project,<br/>Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford<br/>Updated 2016-11-30 by RC</p></td> <td width="20%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/"><img src="edition2/gif/ox5.gif" height="55" alt="University of Oxford" border="0" title="University of Oxford"/></a></td> </tr></table> </div> </div> </body> </html>