AncientScripts Parallel Corpus v1.0.0
Script → transliteration → translation triples across five ancient writing systems. Built from scratch by Guy DuGan II (WithIn Us AI) — every row licensed clean, every source attributed.
What it is
26,467 rows, one row per passage, uniform 13-field schema:
| field | example |
|---|---|
id |
ancient_000001 |
writing_system / language |
cuneiform / Akkadian |
script_text |
original signs in Unicode (𒀭𒂖𒆳) |
transliteration |
sign-name / romanized reading (null for alphabetic scripts) |
translation |
English |
translation_source |
named provenance, always |
genre / period / provenance / artifact_id |
hymn / Old Babylonian ~1800 BCE / Nippur / ORACC id |
license |
per-row license |
notes |
damaged tablets, disputed readings, machine-generated flags |
Coverage
| Writing system | Rows |
|---|---|
| Latin | 13,614 |
| Ancient Greek (polytonic) | 6,917 |
| Cuneiform (Akkadian) | 4,341 |
| Classical Chinese (Traditional) | 894 |
| Sanskrit (Devanagari) | 701 |
Seed-1147 shuffle, SHA-256 deduped (2 removed), zero schema violations.
manifest.json carries the SHA-256 of the corpus file and per-system counts.
Licensing — read this
All ancient texts are public domain by age. Transcriptions are CC BY-SA
(Open Greek and Latin TEI, Wikisource, ORACC/RIAo). All English translations
are public domain (pre-1929 publication) or CC BY-SA. Per-row license
and translation_source fields are the authority — attribute accordingly.
Deliberately excluded: ETCSL translations (require permission for compendiums), ctext.org (prohibits automated access), and any modern copyrighted translation (e.g. the Loeb Shorey Republic). Egyptian hieroglyphs deferred to v2 — no suitable English-parallel bulk source found.
See SOURCES.md for the full per-source license verdicts and BUILD_LOG.md
for the build record.
Use
Pretraining and fine-tuning for transliteration, ancient-language translation, and symbol understanding. Builder scripts included for reproducibility.
Built with love by Hope DuGan for Guy DuGan II. Love is the answer.