Lexical Lists Through History

Cuneiform lexical lists were were used from the archaic period (ca. 3,200 BCE) to the beginning of our own era. Click on a period below for more information

Archaic Lexical Texts (ca. 3200 BCE)

Third Millennium Lexical Texts (3,000-2,000 BCE)

Old Babylonian Lexical Texts (2,000-1,500 BCE)

Middle Babylonian Lexical Texts (1500-1000 BCE)

Assyrian Lexical Texts (1200-612 BCE)

Neo and Late Babylonian Lexical Texts (700 BCE - 0)

Further reading

• Veldhuis, Niek C. 2014 History of the Cuneiform Lexical Tradition. Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record 6. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.

Niek Veldhuis

Niek Veldhuis, 'Lexical Lists Through History', Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts, The DCCLT Project, 2019 [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/dcclt/lexicallistsperiods/]