This month's publications reflect several converging threads in the field. Annotation — of named entities, cylinder seal motifs, and cuneiform signs — emerges as a central concern, with multiple contributions grappling with how to build reliable, reusable labeled data from ancient textual and visual sources. Alongside this, questions of imaging and legibility recur, from new composite photography methods for cuneiform tablets to motif detection in seal impressions. A broader methodological self-reflection is also visible: two contributions this month, on AI in archaeology and on Wikidata's coverage of writing systems, step back to critically assess the infrastructures and tools the field increasingly relies on, asking not just what these methods can do but where they fall short. On the events side, the overlap between network analysis, linked data, and historical corpora is particularly well represented this month, with upcoming conferences all addressing how formal methods handle the messiness of historical sources.
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