EA-CORPORA-01 — The Seated Primary Corpora is the gathering deposit for the primary source texts held in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive, published 2026-08-21. It records fifteen seats totalling 126,714 ref-tagged lines across Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Classical Chinese and Sahidic Coptic. Seats 01/01 through 01/12 — Josephus, Catullus, Theocritus, the Greek New Testament, the Septuagint, Longinus, Philo, Plato, the Hebrew Bible, Sappho 31 as a diplomatic layer, the literary papyri, and the Slavonic Josephus as index and provenance — were deposited individually on 2026-08-19. Seats 01/13 Homer, 01/14 the Yi Jing and 01/15 the Coptic Gnostic corpus are seated for the first time in this record. Each seat is a directory holding as-fetched originals, flat ref-tagged normalized text, a source.json pinning the origin repository to a commit and recording edition, licence and verified loci, and a SHA-256 manifest. The data is published as a sidecar index at api/corpora.json with per-seat links; the deposit is the gathering, not the data.
The governing principle is originals wherever they exist. Where only a translation is available the seat is not taken: the Yi Jing is seated in Chinese rather than in Legge's English, and the Coptic Gnostic corpus in Sahidic rather than in Meyer's rendering. Licences are verified at the file where the format carries them rather than inferred from repository metadata; for the Coptic seat, each of the thirty-one TEI files was checked for its own availability header, all declaring CC-BY 4.0 to Coptic SCRIPTORIUM.
Three absences are declared, dated and reasoned rather than papered over, following the archive's DUD doctrine that present-but-presented-as-absent is its worst self-manufactured category. The Apocryphon of John — the foundational Sethian text, surviving in four manuscripts and the closest thing Gnosticism has to a canonical scripture — has no openly licensed machine-readable Coptic edition; the one machine-readable edition located derives its Coptic from scanned copyrighted volumes and is relicensed by a party who does not hold those rights, and was therefore not seated. Fifty-one of the fifty-two Nag Hammadi tractates exist in print editions only. The Qumran sectarian corpus, transcribed decades ago and publicly funded, remains without an open machine-readable edition. The record identifies a synoptic open edition of the Apocryphon of John as the narrowest and highest-value gap in the openly licensed Coptic record.
Two rulings accompany the seating. Perseus tlg003, catalogued in places as the Homeric Hymns, is the Epigrams at the pinned commit and is seated as such. The Coptic seat is named coptic-gnostic rather than nag-hammadi, because naming a directory for a library of which one tractate is held would assert a completeness the seat does not have.