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Cuneiform tablets

Here are entered collections and specimens of, and works on, cuneiform writing preserved on clay tablets. Collections and specimens of, and works on, cuneiform writing inscribed on stone, metal and other hard surfaces are entered under Cuneiform inscriptions. Such works, if limited to a particular language, are entered under the name of the language with the subdivision Texts.

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• The earliest version of the Babylonian deluge story and the temple library of Nippur / (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania, 1910), by H. V. Hilprecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Babylonisch-Assyrische Texte. (Bonn : A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1904), by Carl Bezold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Altbabylonische Rechtsurkunden aus der Zeit der Hammurabi-Dynastie (Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, 1903), by Samuel Daiches (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cuneiform inscriptions : Chaldean, Babylonian and Assyrian collections contained in the library of J. Pierpont Morgan / (New Haven : Yale University Press, 1920), by J. Pierpont Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hilprecht's answer / ([United States : s.n., 1908?]), by John P. Peters and H. V. Hilprecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cuneorum clavis : the primitive alphabet and language of the ancient ones of the earth : by means of which can be read the cuneiform inscriptions on the stone tablets, obelisks, cylinders, and other remains discovered in assyria / (London : Printed for the editor at the Chiswick Press, 1875), by Daniel Smith and H. W. Hemsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der keilinschriftliche Sintfluthbericht : eine Episode des babylonischen Nimrodepos : Habilitations-Vorlesung / (Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, 1881), by Paul Haupt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Izdubar-Nimrod : eine altbabylonische Heldensage : nach den Keilschriftfragmenten / (Leipzig : B.G. Teubner, 1891), by Alfred Jeremias, ed. by Alfred Jeremias (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Samas religious texts classified in the British Museum catalogue as hymns, prayers, and incantations : with twenty plates of texts hitherto unpublished, and a transliteration and translation of K. 3182 / (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1901), by Clifton Daggett Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Kenntnis der babylonischen Religion (Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, 1896-1901), by Heinrich Zimmern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Royal inscriptions and fragments from Nippur and Babylon / (Philadelphia : Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, 1926), by Leon Legrain (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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; US access only)
• 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)

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• Documents from the Temple archives of Nippur dated in the reigns of Cassite rulers / (Philadelphia : University Museum [of the University of Pennsylvania], 1912), by Albert Tobias Clay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Technik des Tontafel-Schreibens. (Berlin, W. Peiser, 1907), by Leopold Messerschmidt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibliotheks- und Schriftwesen im alten Ninive. ([Leipzig, O.Harrassowitz, 1904]), by Carl Bezold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das sumerisch-assyrische Vokabular Ass. 523. (Leipzig, Druck von W. Drugulin, 1922), by Bertrand Zimolong (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The phonetic values of the cuneiform characters. (London, Williams, 1871), by George Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur l'écriture cunéiforme assyrienne. Inscriptions der Achéménides. ([Paris, 1849]), by Louis Félicien Joseph Caignart de Saulcy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hittite texts in the cuneiform character from tablets in the British Museum; (London : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920), by British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Assyrian language; easy lessons in the cuneiform inscriptions, (London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1901), by L. W. King (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Indices zu meiner Classified list / (Leiden : Brill, 1897), by Rudolf-Ernst Brünnow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fresh light from the ancient monuments : a sketch of the most striking confirmations of the Bible from recent discoveries in Egypt, Assyria, Palestine, Babylonia, Asia Minor / (New York : Revell ;, 1895), by A. H. Sayce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tableau comparé des écritures babylonienne et assyrienne, archaïques et modernes, (Paris, H. Welter, 1902), by A. Amiaud and Lucien Méchineau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tableau comparé des écritures babylonienne et assyrienne archaïques et modernes avec classement des signes d'après leur forme archaïque / (Paris : Ernest Leroux, 1887), by A. Amiaud and Lucien Méchineau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Choix de textes cunéiformes : inédits ou incomplétement publiés jusqu'a ce jour / (Paris : Maisonneuve et cie., 1873-1875), by François Lenormant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über den historischen Gewinn aus der Entzifferung der assyrischen Inschriften : nebst einer Übersicht über die Grundzüge des assyrisch-babylonischen Keilschriftsystems / (Berlin : Wilhelm Hertz ; London : Williams & Norgate, 1856), by Johannes Brandis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions / (London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; New York : E. S. Gorham, 1908), by A. H. Sayce and Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die entstehung des ältesten schriftsystems; oder, Der ursprung der keilschriftzeichen; (Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs, 1898), by Friedrich Delitzsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Assyrische sprachlehre und keilschriftkunde für das selbststudium. Grammatik, syllabar, chrestomathie und vocabular auf grundlage der assyrischen keilschriftzeichen für einfache silben methodisch und leichtfasslich bearbeitet (Wien [etc.] A. Hartleben, [1900]), by J. Rosenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Classification des caractères cunéiformes babyloniens et ninivites / (Paris : Imp. P. Barousse, [1874?]), by Édouard de Chossat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dar naḥv va ṣarf-i khaṭṭ-i Āriyā (Arīn) maʻrūf bikhaṭṭ-i Mīkhī ... ; [va], Mukhtaṣar-i jughrāfī-i Hindūstān [bi]ṭarzī tāzah [va] biṭarīq-i suʾāl va javāb / (Bambẚī : Sipihr, 1322 [1904]), by Naṣīr al-Dīn Furṣat Ḥusaynī Shīrāzī and Naṣīr al-Dīn. Mukhtaṣar-i jughrāfī-i Hindūstān Furṣat Ḥusaynī Shīrāzī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Babylonisches Schrifttum, (Leipzig, Deutsches Museum für Buch und Schrift, 1921), by Eckhard Unger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cuneorum clavis : the primitive alphabet and language of the ancient ones of the earth : by means of which can be read the cuneiform inscriptions on the stone tablets, obelisks, cylinders, and other remains discovered in assyria / (London : Printed for the editor at the Chiswick Press, 1875), by Daniel Smith and H. W. Hemsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le syllabaire assyrien : Exposé des éléments du système phonétique de l'ecriture anarienne / (Paris : [s. n.], 1869-73]), by Joachim Menant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Entzifferung der Keilschrift / (Leipzig : Hinrichs, 1910), by Leopold Messerschmidt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Versuch über die keilförmigen Inschriften zu Persepolis / (Kopenhagen : Gerhardt Bonnier, 1818), by Friedrich Münter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neues Licht aus dem alten Orient, Keilschrift- und Papyrusfunde aus dem jüdisch-christl̂ichen Altertum, Ausgrabung der Menasstadt, (Bonn, P. Hanstein, 1913), by Gerhard Rauschen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mémoire sur l'écriture cunéiforme Assyrienne / (Paris : Imprimerie Nationale, 1848), by Paul Emile Botta (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the polyphony of the Assyrio-Babylonian cuneiform writing a letter to Professor Renouf / (Dublin : John F. Fowler, 1863), by Edward Hincks and P. Le Page Renouf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Expédition scientifique en Mesopotamie exécutée par ordre du gouvernement de 1851 à 1854 MM. Fulgence Fresnel, Félix Thomas et Jules Oppert / (Paris : Imprimerie impériale, [1857]-63), by Jules Oppert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Assyrian primer, an inductive method of learning the cuneiform characters, (New York : The Columbia university press, 1909), by John Dyneley Prince (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liste der typen assyrischer keilschrift aus der schriftgiesserei von Ferd. Theinhardt in Berlin ... (Berlin, Theinhardt, 1877), by Eberhard Schrader (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die assyrische Keilschrift, erläutert durch zwei noch nicht bekannt gewordene Jaspis-Cylinder aus Niniveh und Babylon, begleitet mit dem Nachstiche des vom Abte Lichtenstein herausgegebenen Cylinders und dem genauen Abdrucke einer alten tibetanischen Handschrift in schönen utschen-Charakteren, (Wiesbaden, L. Schellenberg, Hofbuchhändler und Hofbuchdrucker, 1820), by Wilhelm Dorow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cuneorum clavis. The primitive alphabet and language of the ancient ones of the earth ... (London, Printed for the editor, 1875), by Daniel Smith and H. W. Hemsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures upon the Assyrian language and syllabary : delivered to students of the archaic classes / (London : Samuel Bagster, 1877), by A. H. Sayce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions, (London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York, E. S. Gorham, 1907), by A. H. Sayce and Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). General Literature Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les signes sumériens dérivés (les gunû) / (Paris : E. Leroux, 1905), by Paul Toscanne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Silben- und ideogrammliste, im einverständnis mit der redaktion der VAB (Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs, [191-]), by Maximilian Streck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Assyrisches Syllabar, für den Gebrauch in seinen Vorlesungen zusammengestellt. Mit den Jagdinschriften Asurbanipal's in Anlage. (Berlin, K. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1880), by Eberhard Schrader (page images at HathiTrust)
• Assyrisches syllabar, (Berlin, Buchdruckerei der Königl, 1880), by Eberhard Schrader (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ancient ones of the earth : being the history of the primitive alphabet / (Melbourne : Harwood, 1864), by Daniel Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ninives og Babylons Kileskrifter / (Kjøbenhavn : Gandrup, 1878), by Esaias Tegner, trans. by C. F Jung (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altbabylonische Keilschrifttexte : zum Gebrauche bei Vorlesungen / (Leipzig : E. Pfeiffer, 1892), by Hugo Winckler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tableau comparé des écritures babylonienne et assyrienne, archaïques et modernes : avec classement des signes d'après leur forme archaïque / (Paris,: E. Leroux, 1887), by A. Amiaud and Lucien Méchineau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Akkadische und sumerische keilschrifttexte nach den originalen im Britischen museum copirt und mit einleitenden zusammenstellungen sowie erklärenden anmerkungen (Leipzig, J. C. Hinrichs, 1881-82), ed. by Paul Haupt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A classified list of all simple and compound cunieform ideographs occuring in the texts hitherto published, with their Assyro-Babylonian equivelants, phonetic values, etc. / (Leyden : E. J. Brill, 1889), by Rudolf-Ernst Brünnow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freibrief Nebukadnezar's I, königs von Babylonien c. 1130 v. Chr. (Leipzig, Druck von A. Pries, 1883), by King of Babylonia Nebuchadnezzar I and H. V. Hilprecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Frage nach dem Ursprunge der altbabylonischen Cultur / (Berlin : Königlischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1884), by Eberhard Schrader (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les langues perdues de la Perse & de l'Assyrie / (Paris : E. Leroux, 1885-1886), by Joachim Menant (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sumero-Babylonian sign list, to which is added an Assyrian sign list and a catalogue of the numerals, weights and measures used at various periods, (New York, Columbia university press, 1918), by Samuel A. B. Mercer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin of the gunu-signs in Babylonian, (Leipzig, Printed by W. Drugulin, 1911), by Ellen Seton Ogden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Éléments d'épigraphie assyrienne; (Paris, B. Duprat, 1864), by Joachim Menant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contribution au dictionnaire sumérien-assyrien (Paris, E. Leroux, 1907), by Charles Fossey, Rudolf-Ernst Brünnow, and Ch Virolleaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Assyrian primer, an inductive method of learning the cuneiform characters. (New York, AMS Press, 1966 [c1909]), by John Dyneley Prince (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neubabylonische briefe; zwanzig briefe in cuneiform texts xxii, kollationiert und bearb. Teil I ... ([Leipzig, A. Pries, 1913]), by Oswald Thompson Allis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Syllabaire cunéiforme (Paris [etc.] H. Welter, 1901), by Charles Fossey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lecture littérale des hiéroglyphes et des cunéiformes, (Paris [Firmin Didot frères], 1853), by Joseph Barrois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Entstehung des ältesten Schriftsystems, oder, Der Ursprung der Keilschriftzeichen / (Leipzig : J.C. Hinrichs, 1897), by Friedrich Delitzsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lectures upon the Assyrian language, and syllabary; (London, Bagster, 1877), by A. H. Sayce (page images at HathiTrust)
• New light on the Bible and the Holy Land, being an account of some recent discoveries in the East; (London, Paris [etc.] Cassell & company, limited, 1892), by B. T. A. Evetts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les écritures figuratives et hiéroglyphiques des différents peuples anciens et modernes, (Paris, Maisonneuve et cie, 1870), by Léon Louis Lucien Prunol de Rosny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil de signes archäiques de l'écriture cunéiforme (époque de Shargani, Gudêa & des rois de la 2e dynastie d'Ur--4000-3000 av. J.-C.) (Paris, H. Welter, 1898), by Vincent Scheil (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Assyrian language : easy lessons in the cuneiform inscriptions / (New York : AMS Press, 1976), by L. W. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Sumero-Babylonian sign list, to which is added an Assyrian sign list and a catalogue of the numerals, weights and measures used at various periods, (New York, AMS Press, 1966), by Samuel A. B. Mercer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The archæology of the cuneiform inscriptions, by A. H. Sayce (Gutenberg ebook)

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