potnia 0.2.0

Potnia is a Python Library to help users work with Aegean scripts.

Potnia is an open-source Python library designed to convert Romanized transliterations of ancient texts into Unicode representations of ther respective native scripts.

Currently the conversion of transliterated Linear B texts into a Unicode representation of the script is fully supported, with functionality for Linear A, Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform, Hittite cuneiform, Luwian hieroglyphs and Etruscan in development.

Contributions are welcome! Please see the CONTRIBUTING.rst file for more information.

Installation

To install Potnia, run the following command:

pip install potnia

To install the latest version from the repository, you can use this command:

pip install git+https://github.com/AncientNLP/potnia.git

Usage

To convert transliterated Linear B to Linear B Unicode, use the following code:

>>> from potnia import linear_b_mapper
>>> linear_b_mapper("a-ri-to-jo")
'𐀀𐀪𐀵𐀍'

If you wish to regularize the text to remove additional annotations present in the LiBER <https://liber.cnr.it/index> and DĀMOS <https://damos.hf.uio.no/about/content/>` transliterations, use the following code:

>>> linear_b_mapper("e-ke-qe ]-o-na-to , ke-ke-me-na⌞ ⌟ko-to-na GRA qs ] vac.", regularize=True)
'𐀁𐀐𐀤 %𐀃𐀙𐀵 𐀐𐀐𐀕𐀙 𐀒𐀵𐀙 𐂎 %'

Note that uncertain/missing signs or sections of text are presently being replaced with a wildcard ‘%’ character.

To tokenize transliterated Linear B texts without converting it to Unicode, use the following code:

>>> linear_b_mapper.tokenize_transliteration("]wa VIR 1 MUL 2 'ko-wa 1' ko-wo 1")
[']', 'wa', ' ', 'VIR', ' ', '1', ' ', 'MUL', ' ', '2', ' ', "'", 'ko', 'wa', ' ', '1', "'", ' ', 'ko', 'wo', ' ', '1']

Credits

Potnia is developed by:

• Emily Tour (University of Melbourne)

• Kabir Manandhar Shrestha (Melbourne Data Analytics Platform, University of Melbourne)

• Dr Robert Turnbull (Melbourne Data Analytics Platform, University of Melbourne)