Cuneiform inscriptions
Here are entered collections, and specimens of, and works on, cuneiform writing inscribed on stone, metal and other hard surfaces. Collections and specimens of, and works on, cuneiform writing preserved on clay tablets are entered under Cuneiform tablets. Such works, if limited to a particular language, are entered under the name of the language with the subdivision Texts.
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Broader terms:Related terms:Narrower terms:- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian
- Cuneiform inscriptions, Cappadocian
- Cuneiform inscriptions, Elamite
- Cuneiform inscriptions, Sumerian
- Inscriptions, Cuneiform
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Annals of the Kings of Assyria, ed. by E. A. Wallis Budge and L. W. King (page images at Chicago)- Babylonian Legal and Business Documents, From the Time of the First Dynasty of Babylon, Chiefly from Nippur, by A. Poebel (PDF at ETANA)
- M. Botta's Letters on the Discoveries at Nineveh (first and only series; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850), by Paul Emile Botta, trans. by Catherine Ellis Tobin (page images at Google)
- The Abu Habba Cylinder of Nabuna'id (V Rawlinson Pl. 64) (inscription in Akkadian, notes in English; Leiden: Late E. J. Brill, 1905), by King of Babylonia Nabonidus, contrib. by Robert J. Lau and John Dyneley Prince
- Inscription Assyrienne Archaïque de S̆amšî-Rammân IV, Roi d'Assyrie (824-811 av. J.-C.) (inscription in Akkadian, translation and commentary in French; Paris: H. Welter, 1889), by King of Assyria Shamshi-Adad V, ed. by Vincent Scheil (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments: A Sketch of the Most Striking Confirmations of the Bible, From Recent Discoveries in Egypt, Palestine, Assyria, Babylonia, Asia Minor (second edition; London: Religious Tract Society, 1884), by A. H. Sayce (Gutenberg multiple formats)
- Une Relation de la Huitième Campagne de Sargon (714 av. J.-C.) (in French; Paris; P. Geuthner, 1912), ed. by F. Thureau-Dangin
- Nabonidus and Belshazzar: A Study of the Closing Events of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (Yale Oriental series, researches v15; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1929), by Raymond Philip Dougherty (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great on the Rock of Behistun in Persia (London: British Museum, 1907), by King of Persia Darius I (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Royal Inscriptions of Sumer and Akkad (New York: Pub. for the American Oriental Society by the Yale University Press; et al., 1929), by George A. Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Inschriften von Nabuchodonosor, König von Babylon (604-561 v. Chr.) (inscriptions in Akkadian; commentary in German; Leipzig: E. Pfeiffer, 1889), by King of Babylonia Nebuchadnezzar II, ed. by J. N. Strassmaier (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tablettes d'Uruk à l'Usage des Prêtres du Temple d'Anu au Temps des Séleucides (Textes Cuneiformes v6, in Akkadian with French notes; Paris; P. Geuthner, 1922), ed. by F. Thureau-Dangin
- The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great on the Rock of Behistun in Persia (London: British Museum, 1907), by King of Persia Darius I (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Records From Erech: Time of Nabonidus (555-538 B.C.) (Yale Oriental series, Babylonian texts v6; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920), ed. by Raymond Philip Dougherty
- Tablettes Cappadociennes (Textes Cuneiformes v4, in Cappadocian with French notes; Paris; P. Geuthner, 1920), ed. by G. Contenau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great on the Rock of Behistun in Persia (London: British Museum, 1907), by King of Persia Darius I (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great on the Rock of Behistun in Persia (London: British Museum, 1907), by King of Persia Darius I (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Royal Inscriptions of Sumer and Akkad (New York: Pub. for the American Oriental Society by the Yale University Press; et al., 1929), by George A. Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Cuneiform writing- The Archaeology of the Cuneiform Inscriptions (second edition, revised; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; et al., 1908), by A. H. Sayce (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- La Correspondance d'Aménophis III et d'Aménophis IV: Lettres Babyloniennes Trouvées à El-Amarna (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1899), trans. by J. Halévy, contrib. by J. Perruchon (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Tell Amarna Tablets (second edition; London: Pub. for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund by A.P. Watt, 1894), trans. by C. R. Conder (page images at HathiTrust)
- Literary and Scholastic Texts of the First Millennium B.C. (v2 in the Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York: The Museum, c2005), ed. by Ira Spar and W. G. Lambert (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- Private Archive Texts from the First Millennium B.C. (v3 in the Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York: The Museum, c2000), ed. by Ira Spar and Eva Von Dassow, contrib. by J. N. Postgate and Linda Bregstein (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- Tablets, Cones, and Bricks of the Third and Second Millennia B.C. (v1 in the Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York: The Museum, c1988), ed. by Ira Spar (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great on the Rock of Behistun in Persia (London: British Museum, 1907), by King of Persia Darius I (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Babylonian Legends of the Creation and the Fight Between Bel and the Dragon, as told by Assyrian tablets from Nineveh (London: British Museum, 1921)
- Babylonian and Assyrian Literature: Comprising the Epic of Izdubar, Hymns, Tablets, and Cuneiform Inscriptions (1901), contrib. by Epiphanius Wilson (Gutenberg text)
- La Correspondance d'Aménophis III et d'Aménophis IV: Lettres Babyloniennes Trouvées à El-Amarna (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1899), trans. by J. Halévy, contrib. by J. Perruchon (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Tell Amarna Tablets (second edition; London: Pub. for the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund by A.P. Watt, 1894), trans. by C. R. Conder (page images at HathiTrust)
- Fünfzig Babylonische Rechts- und Verwaltungs-Urkunden aus der Zeit des Königs Kambyses (529-521 v. Chr.) (in German and Akkadian; Leipzig: A. Pries, 1896), by Ernst Ziemer
- Letters to Cassite Kings From the Temple Archives of Nippur, ed. by Hugo Radau (PDF at ETANA)
- The Epic of Gilgamish (1928), ed. by R. Campbell Thompson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Ishtar and Izdubar: The Epic of Babylon (1884 translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh), ed. by Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic, on the Basis of Recently Discovered Texts (Pennsylvania and Yale tablets, with translation and commentary; New Haven: Yale University Press, c1920), ed. by Morris Jastrow and Albert T. Clay (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Assyriological Studies (full serial archives)
- The Archaeology of the Cuneiform Inscriptions (second edition, revised; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; et al., 1908), by A. H. Sayce (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Mesopotamian Archaeology: An Introduction to the Archaeology of Babylonia and Assyria (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912), by Percy Stuart Peache Handcock (multiple formats at Google)
- Historical Fragments (1922), by Leon Legrain (PDF at ETANA)
- Sumerian Liturgical Texts (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1917), by Stephen Langdon (PDF at ETANA)
- Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1919), by Stephen Langdon (PDF at ETANA)