Deep Aramaic: Towards a synthetic data paradigm enabling machine learning in epigraphy. by Andrei C Aioanei, Regine R Hunziker-Rodewald, Konstantin M Klein, Dominik L Michels

“…Despite minimal real examples, we engineer a dataset of 250 000 training and 25 000 validation images covering the 22 letter classes in the Aramaic alphabet. This comprehensive corpus provides a robust volume of data for training a residual neural network (ResNet) to classify highly degraded Aramaic letters. …”
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A Short Introduction to Semitic Studies by Paolo Agostini

“…Aramaic of the pre-Christian era (Ancient Aramaic or Imperial Aramaic) is known from inscriptions, papyrus letters and documents, and from the Old Testament books of Ezra and Daniel. The Aramaic alphabet was derived from Canaanite script. By the 1st century CE, written Aramaic divided into different forms based on the various types of script adopted by different religions. …”
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