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Published November 6, 2026 | Version 1.0.0

Logogram Density Index (LDI): a diachronic corpus and tool for tracking logographic density in cuneiform divination

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Streamlit application and analysis toolkit for measuring the Logogram Density Index (LDI) across a hand-built corpus of Mesopotamian omen texts, spanning the Old Babylonian, Middle, and first-millennium periods and the major divination genres (astrology, diagnostic, extispicy, izbu, terrestrial). Accompanies the article on the 'logographic shift' in cuneiform divination.

Software is released under the MIT License; the corpus and derived tables in data/ are released under CC BY 4.0.

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