Online Resources for Mesopotamia

CONTENTS

Tools

CuneifyPlus: converts transliterations to cuneiform, and generates bespoke sign lists

Keilschriftbibliothek (KeiBi): search by author and title; esp. good for tracking down reviews of a particular book, seeing what a given author has published, or finding works with a specific word or phrase in the title.

SAA search: search by tablet number/siglum to see if/where it has been published in the SAA series.

Dictionaries

ePSD (electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary)

Walter Sommerfeld's Sumerian Glossary (several versions)

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD) - all volumes downloadable here

P. Attinger, Lexique sumérien-français (published online, 2019)

F. Delitzsch, Assyrisches Handwörterbuch (Leipzig, 1894) [not up-to-date, but of great historical interest]

W. Muss-Arnolt, A Concise Dictionary of the Assyrian Language, vol. 1 (Berlin, 1894), vol. 2 (Berlin, 1905) [not up-to-date, but of historical interest]

von Soden, W. Akkadisches Handwörterbuch, on Google Books: vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3.

Supplement to the Akkadian Dictionaries (eSAD) - also as published volumes

Justifications, Addenda and Corrigenda for A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian (CDA)

Fascicle dates for AHw

fascicle	pages	date
1	1-80	1959
2	81-176	1959
3	177-272	1960
4	273-368	1962
5	369-464	1963
6	465-568	1965
7	569-664	1966
8	665-760	1967
9	761-856	1969
10	857-952	1971
11	953-1064	1972
12	1065-1160	1974
13	1161-1256	1976
14	1257-1352	1977
15	1353-1448	1979
16	1149-1592	1981

Volume dates for CAD

Volume	Publication date
A/1	1964
A/2	1968
B	1965
D	1959
E	1958
G	1956
Ḫ	1956
I-J	1960
K	1971
L	1973
M/1	1977
M/2	1977
N/1	1980
N/2	1980
P	2005
Q	1982
R	1999
S	1984
Ṣ (tsade)	1962
Š/1	1989
Š/2	1992
Š/3	1992
T	2006
Ṭ (tet)	2006
U-W	2010
U	2010
Z	1961

Abbreviations

The CDLI maintains a list of abbreviations for Assyriology.

Websites of editions, translations and databases

Achemenet

Access here. Edits written sources (including, but not confined to, those in cuneiform) dating to the Persian Empire, with French translations.

Archibab

Access here, and see Christoph Schmidhuber's tutorial video:

The Codex Hammurapi

Online edition (in German) by Walter Sommerfeld.

The Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP)

Accessible here. Edits Babylonian and Assyrian commentaries.

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)

Access here.

Searching CDLI

The CDLI is very particular about how you enter search criteria (includingly seemingly redundant zeros).

To search for a number in a format such as ’79-7-8, 28’: search by accession number, following the format ‘1879-07-08, 0028’.

To search for an A number (Mari): search by accession number, following the format ‘A 00002’.

To search for an AO number (the Louvre): search by accession number, following the format 'AO 06453'.

To search for a BM (British Museum) number: search by collection number, following the format ‘BM 012345’

To search for a CBS (Catalogue of the Babylonian Section, Penn Museum) number: search by collection number, following the format ‘CBS 09219’

To search for an IM (Iraq Museum) number: search by collection number, following the format ‘IM 062827’.

To search for a K number (Kuyunjik): into the search field ‘accession number’ (not ‘collection’) enter your query in the format of K, space, five-digit number (adding zeros at the front as necessary), e.g. ‘K 00341’.

To search for an N number (Nippur): search by collection number, following the format ‘N 0123’.

To search for an Rm number: search by accession number, following the format ‘Rm 1234’ or ‘Rm 2, 123’.

To search for an Sm (Smith) number: search by accession number, following the format ‘Sm 1234’.

To search for a VAT (Vorderasiatische Texte) number: search by collection number, following the format ‘VAT 01234’.

Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts

Access here. Contains transliterations, mostly of Ur-III economic/administrative tablets.

A concordance ('Glossar') has been prepared by Walter Sommerfeld.

The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL)

Access here. Contains composite transliterations and free translations of most works of Sumerian literature from the Old Babylonian period.

Ebla Digital Archives

Access here. Contains transliterations and photos of tablets from Ebla.

Emar Online Database

Access here.

Middle Euphrates Digital Archive

Access here.

Old Babylonian Text Corpus

Access here. Includes transliterations of many OB texts (hence overlaps with Archibab).

Prosobab

Access here.

The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC)

Access here. A huge repository of editions, comprising many sub-projects. Several are listed separately here.

State Archives of Assyria Online

Access here.

To go to particular volume, follow the format http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa01/

To see all the letter titles in a given volume, follow the format

http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa17/pager

To go to a particular tablet, use the tablet's CDLI number following the format http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/P334390/html

Sources of Early Akkadian Literature (SEAL)

Access here. Edits Old and Middle Babylonian literature, with glossaries.

Websites of PDFs

Etana 'core texts' - contains many old publications

HathiTrust digital library - contains many old publications

Archive.org - contains many old publications