The Ancient Near East phase: Hittite at scale, the CDLI catalog, and a seven-legged Bible
19 July 2026 · Nabu news
The library nearly tripled today. As of 2026-07-19 the catalog holds 737,299 documents / 11,357,320 passages across 69 sources, with 711,376 dictionary entries and a freshly censused lemma index of 12.4 million gold rows in twenty-two languages (plus 8.0 million honestly labelled silver rows in eight).
Phase 31 is the Ancient Near East: the TLHdig Hittite corpus (23,486
manuscripts — more than 98% of the published Hittite fragments, CC BY),
the CDLI universal catalog (353,156 cuneiform artifacts, of which
135,201 transliterated — proto-cuneiform and proto-Elamite’s only
machine-readable home), the eBL Fragmentarium (23,288 fragments with
inline English, cross-linked to CDLI), the Copenhagen Ugaritic
Corpus, the Peshitta Old Testament (taking align "GEN 1.1" to
seven witnesses), the Digital Syriac Corpus (632 documents), and the
ETCSL Sumerian literary canon beside ORACC’s ePSD2 editions of the
same poems — two scholarly witnesses, deliberately unmerged. ORACC
itself grew to 38 projects with the Achaemenid royal trilinguals (Old
Persian and Elamite are new axis languages, with Ugaritic, Syriac, and
Eblaite) and the Ur III administrative mass.
Two corpora introduce the library’s silver lemma tier at scale:
TLHdig’s candidate morphology and CDLI’s unlemmatized transliterations
never contaminate gold search — every hit carries its tier label, and
--gold-only excludes them.
As always, every count above was read from the live catalog on the date given, and every text carries its upstream license on every surface.