new C14 DSS datings, to come; paleography comparison

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StephenGoranson
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new C14 DSS datings, to come; paleography comparison

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A new article describes a highly technical approach to research on paleography. The group plans to compare these (and future) results with future, new radiocarbon scroll dates.

From Jack Sasson's agade list:


At <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/ur ... 0vqLnm0&e= > is posted this article: [Go there for free download]

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A Digital Palaeographic Approach towards Writer Identification in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Authors: Maruf A. Dhali, Sheng He, Mladen Popović, Eibert Tigchelaar, and Lambert Schomaker



In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM, 693-702, 2017, Porto, Portugal



ISBN: 978-989-758-222-6



Abstract: To understand the historical context of an ancient manuscript, scholars rely on the prior knowledge of writer and date of that document. In this paper, we study the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of ancient manuscripts with immense historical, religious, and linguistic significance, which was discovered in the mid-20th century near the Dead Sea. Most of the manuscripts of this collection have become digitally available only recently and techniques from the pattern recognition field can be applied to revise existing hypotheses on the writers and dates of these scrolls.



This paper presents our ongoing work which aims to introduce digital palaeography to the field and generate fresh empirical data by means of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. Challenges in analyzing the Dead Sea Scrolls are highlighted by a pilot experiment identifying the writers using several dedicated features. Finally, we discuss whether to use specifically-designed shape features for writer identification or to use the Deep Learning methods on a relatively limited ancient manuscript collection which is degraded over the course of time and is not labeled, as in the case of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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