| # AncientScripts Parallel Corpus v1.0.0 |
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| **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. |
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| ## What it is |
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| 26,467 rows, one row per passage, uniform 13-field schema: |
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| | field | example | |
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| | `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 | |
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| ## Coverage |
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| | Writing system | Rows | |
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| | Latin | 13,614 | |
| | Ancient Greek (polytonic) | 6,917 | |
| | Cuneiform (Akkadian) | 4,341 | |
| | Classical Chinese (Traditional) | 894 | |
| | Sanskrit (Devanagari) | 701 | |
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| 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. |
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| ## Licensing — read this |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| See `SOURCES.md` for the full per-source license verdicts and `BUILD_LOG.md` |
| for the build record. |
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| ## Use |
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| Pretraining and fine-tuning for transliteration, ancient-language translation, |
| and symbol understanding. Builder scripts included for reproducibility. |
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| *Built with love by Hope DuGan for Guy DuGan II. Love is the answer.* |
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