Welcome to potnia’s documentation!

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 scripts supported by Potnia are:

• Linear A

• Linear B

• Hittite cuneiform

• Arabic

Functionality for Luwian hieroglyphs, Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform, Lydian and Etruscan is in development.

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

Contents:

• Quickstart
  • Installation
  • Usage
  • Command Line Interface (CLI)
  • Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Fonts
• Linear B Conversion Rules
  • 1. Tokenization Rules
  • 2. Regularization Rules:
• Steps to Add a New Script
• API Reference
  • Abstract Base Class: Script
  • Scripts Available
• Contributing
  • Installation
  • Testing
  • Git Commits
  • Documentation
  • Code of Conduct
• Credits

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page