Aššur and His Friends
A Statistical Analysis of Neo-Assyrian Texts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6078071 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tero Alstola (0000-0003-4382-1733, University of Helsinki), Shana Zaia (0000-0002-3862-261X, University of Helsinki), Aleksi Sahala (0000-0002-4255-3872, University of Helsinki), Heidi Jauhiainen (0000-0002-8227-5627, University of Helsinki), Saana Svärd (0000-0002-8672-1057, University of Helsinki), Krister Lindén (0000-0003-2337-303X, University of Helsinki) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Pages | 159-180 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Cuneiform Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0256 • E-ISSN: 2325-6737 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/703859 |
| OpenAlex | W2953743734 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 7 |
Large digital datasets of cuneiform sources lend themselves to computational analysis that can complement and improve upon traditional philological work. The present article applies social network analysis to an electronic corpus of 1,532 texts to study the god Aššur and his position in divine networks in the Neo-Assyrian period. Our results show that the performance of social network analysis can be improved by using a small window size and calculating tie strengths with pointwise mutual information. This allows us to study the co-occurrences of gods in semantic contexts. From a network perspective, Aššur is not a very central god in our corpus despite his importance in Assyrian royal theology, but he rather joins the existing networks of gods without altering them
Ancient history · Art · Complement (music · Cuneiform · Joins · Literature · Period (music · Perspective (graphical · Philology · Pointwise · Social network analysis · Sociology · World Wide Web · Ancient Near East History · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |