Cuneiform tablets are often published first as scale drawings (hand copies) with very limited scholarly apparatus such as edition, translation, and/or commentary. As many of the older volumes have been superseded by the editions presented here, they are likely to be of interest and value only to specialist Assyriological researchers.
| Abbreviation | Full reference |
|---|---|
| 4 R2 | Rawlinson, H.C., G. Smith, and T. Pinches, The cuneiform inscriptions of Western Asia, vol. 4, 2nd ed., London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1891 |
| ABCD | Rochberg-Halton, F., Aspects of Babylonian celestial divination: the lunar eclipse tablets of Enuma Anu Enlil (Archiv für Orientforschung, Beiheft 22), Horn, Austria: Berger, 1988 |
| ABL | Harper, R.F. and L. Waterman, Assyrian and Babylonian letters belonging to the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum, 14 vols., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1892-1914 Download Vol. 1 from ETANA (11.35 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20241.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) Download Vol. 4 from ETANA (11.13 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20270.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) Download Vol. 7 from ETANA (13.97 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20269.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) Download Vol. 10 from ETANA (16.82 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20271.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) Download Vol. 13 from ETANA (12.68 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20272.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) Download Vol. 14 from ETANA (4.71 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20274.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) |
| ABRT | Craig, J., Assyrian and Babylonian religious texts, 2 vols., Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1895-1897 Download volume from ETANA (4.68 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20113.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader) [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html] |
| ACh | Virolleaud, C., L'astrologie chaldéenne: le livre intitulé Enuma Anu Enlil, 5 vols., Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1905-1912 |
| ADD | Johns, C.H.W., Assyrian deeds and documents recording the transfer of property, including the so-called private contracts, legal decisions and proclamations preserved in the Kouyunjik collections of the British Museum, chiefly of the 7th century B.C., 4 vols, Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, 1898-1923 |
| AfO 18 | Archiv für Orientforschung 18 (1957/58) |
| AGS | Knudtzon, J.A., Assyrische Gebete an den Sonnengott für Staat und königliches Haus aus der Zeit Asarhaddons und Asurbanipals, 2 vols., Leipzig: Pfeiffer, 1893 Download volume from ETANA (4.19 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20278.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) |
| BA 2 & 5 | Beiträge zur Assyriologie 2 (1894); 5 (1906) |
| BBEA | Landsberger, B., Brief des Bischofs von Esagila an König Asarhaddon, Amsterdam: Noord-Hollandsche Uitg. Mij., 1965 |
| Cat.S | King, L.W., Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik collection of the British Museum: supplement, London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1914 Download volume from ETANA (20.57 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20245.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) |
| Choix | Boissier, A., Choix de textes relatifs à la divination assyro-babylonienne, 2 vols., Geneva: Kündig, 1905-1906 Download volume from ETANA (14.04 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20033.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) |
| CT 15 | Handcock, P.S.P. and L.W. King, Cuneiform texts from Babylonian tablets in the British Museum, vol. 15, London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1902 Download volume from ETANA (3.92 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/15166.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) |
| CT 27 | King, L.W., Cuneiform texts from Babylonian tablets in the British Museum, vol. 27, London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1910 Download volume from ETANA (3.92 MB PDF file ) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/17076.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) |
| CT 28 | Handcock, P.S.P. and L.W. King, Cuneiform texts from Babylonian tablets in the British Museum, vol. 28, London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1910 Download volume from ETANA (2.16 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/17077.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) |
| CT 35 | Leeper, A.W.A and C.J. Gadd, Cuneiform texts from Babylonian tablets in the British Museum, vol. 35, London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1920 Download volume from ETANA (3.91 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/15162.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) |
| CT 40 | Gadd, C.J., Cuneiform texts from Babylonian tablets in the British Museum, vol. 40, London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1927 Download volume from ETANA (3.8 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/15157.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) |
| CT 53 | Parpola, S., Cuneiform texts from Babylonian tablets in the British Museum, vol. 53: Neo-Assyrian letters from the Kuyunjik Collection, London: British Museum Publications, 1979 Download volume from ETANA (12.3 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20457.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) |
| CT 54 | Dietrich, M., Cuneiform texts from Babylonian tablets in the British Museum, vol.54: Neo-Babylonian letters from the Kuyunjik Collection, London: British Museum Publications, 1979 Download volume from ETANA (16 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20458.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) |
| EANE | Ellis, M. de J. (ed)., Essays on the ancient Near East in memory of Jacob Joel Finkelstein (Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences, 19), Hampden, CT: Archon, 1977 |
| Geers | Unpublished volumes of copies of texts and fragments from the British Museum Kouyunjik collection, by F.W. Geers |
| HAV | Hilprecht, H.V., Hilprecht anniversary volume: studies in Assyriology and archaeology dedicated to Hermann V. Hilprecht upon ... his fiftieth birthday (July 28), Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1909 |
| IAsb | Bauer, T., Das Inschriftenwerk Assurbanipals, Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1933 |
| Iraq 4 & 34 | Iraq 4 (1937); and 34 (1972) Access article from JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4241612] Access article from JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4199928] |
| JAOS 103 | Journal of the American Oriental Society 103 (1983) Access article from JSTOR (requires subscription) [http://www.jstor.org/stable/601867] |
| KAH | Messerschmidt, L., and O. Schroeder, Keilschrifttexte aus Assur: historischen Inhalts, 2 vols., Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1911–1922 Download both volumes from ETANA (17.6 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20311.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) |
| KAR | Ebeling, E., Keilschrifttexte aus Assur: religiösen Inhalts, 2 vols., Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1919-1923 Download Vol. 1 (cuneiform copies) from ETANA (13.2 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/14875.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) |
| KAV | Schroeder, O., Keilschrifttexte aus Assur verschiedenen Inhalts, Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1920 Download volume from ETANA (8.0 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/14877.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader) [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html] |
| LAS | Parpola, S., Letters from Assyrian scholars to the kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal (Alter Orient und Altes Testament, 5), 2 vols., Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker, 1970-1983; reprint Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2007 |
| LKA | Ebeling, L., Literarische Keilschrifttexte aus Assur, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1953 |
| MEW | Livingstone, A., Mystical and mythological explanatory works of Assyrian and Babylonian scholars, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986; reprint Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2007 |
| NE | Haupt, P., Das Babylonische Nimrodepos, 2 vols., Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1884-1891 Download volume from ETANA (9.6 MB PDF file) [https://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20242.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html]) |
| OECT 6 | Langdon, S., Babylonian penitential psalms (Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts, 6), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927 |
| PBS 7 | Ungnad, A., Babylonian letters of the Hammurapi period (Publications of the Babylonian Section, 7), Philadelphia: University Museum, 1915 |
| PRT | Klauber, E.G., Politisch-religiöse Texte der Sargonidenzeit, Leipzig: Eduard Pfeiffer, 1913 Download volume from ETANA (19.8 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20425.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader) [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html] |
| RMA | Thompson, R.C., The reports of the magicians and astrologers of Niniveh and Babylon in the British Museum, 2 vols., London: Luzac, 1900 Download Vol. 1 (translations) from ETANA (10.7 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20312.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader) [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html] Download Vol. 2 (cuneiform copies) from ETANA (4.2 MB PDF file) [http://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20313.pdf] (requires free Adobe Acrobat reader) [http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html] |
| SAAB 1, 2, & 4 | State Archives of Assyria Bulletin 1 (1987); 2 (1988); 4 (1990) |
| STT | Gurney, O.R., J.J. Finkelstein, and P. Hulin, The Sultantepe tablets, 2 vols., London: British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara, 1957-1964 |
| TI | Langdon, S.J., Tammuz and Ishtar, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914 |
| TIM 09 | van Dijk, J.J.A., Cuneiform texts: of varying contents (Texts in the Iraq Museum, 9), Leiden: Brill, 1976 |
| ZA 24 & 43 | Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 24 (1910); 43 (1936) |
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