AGATE

The index card collection of the University of Munich, copied and arranged by Prof. Dr. P. Attinger in 1992, has since then been continuously expanded and supplemented by him. The basic stock of about 17 000 cards after transcription has grown to about 75 000 cards until today. Sumerian lexemes and their proofs are recorded, mainly in secondary literature. The lexemes are recorded both in their conventional reading and decoded by character names. At the end of the 1990s a database was created containing a simple list of the lexemes and their encoding.
In the present project the still growing collection of handwritten index cards is being digitized. All secondary literature will be recorded, and the lexemes will be assigned the records linked to the bibliography.
The database will be made available for public use. A cooperation of different universities is conceivable to guarantee the ongoing maintenance.