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~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet, legal document concerning a trial, Sumer, modern Iraq, c. 2037-2029 BC - Spurlock Museum, UIUC - DSC05943

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Exhibit in the Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. CDL…

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- petition, prayer for a king MET ME86 11 399

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Religion & Myth

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Hattusa Bronze Tablet Cuneiform

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Bronze tablet from Çorum-Boğazköy dating from 1235 BC. Photographed at Museum of Anatolian Civilisations. This cuneiform document excavated at Hattusa in 1986 is th…

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Hittite Cuneiform Tablet- Legal Deposition(?)

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Tablet on display at the Oriental Institute , with the caption: Hittite Cuneiform Tablet: Legal Deposition(?) Baked clay Hattusha Late Bronze Age (13th century BC) A6004 A60…

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Tablet and enveloppe Ashmolean 1930.407

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: A clay tablet and the enveloppe in which it was sent, with seal impression. Letter recording the dissolving of a business partnership. From ancient Kish, Old Babylo…

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Tablet BM131452

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay cuneiform tablet of a legal case before Saustatar, King of Mitanni, involving Niqmepa, King of Alalakh. Dated 1550BC-1400BC.

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Meeting Humbaba, with Enkidu, at the Cedar Forest. The Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: The tablet dates back to the Old-Babylonian Period, 2003-1595 BCE.

Religion & Myth

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Triangle geometrical tablet Ashmolean 1931 91

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay tablet with geometrical diagram of a triangle. Calculation of the area of the triangle, but the scribe got it wrong, cf. Robson, "Mathematical cuneiform tablet…

Astronomy & Mathematics

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 51.63.177

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 51.63.177. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 51.63.178

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 51.63.178. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WML 53.114.680

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WML 53.114.680. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

WO 08, 160-161

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — WO 08, 160-161. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.094

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.094. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.101

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.101. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.117

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.117. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.203

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.203. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.204

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.204. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.215

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.215. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & Myth·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.220

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.220. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & Myth·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.230

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.230. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.241

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.241. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.303

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.303. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & Myth·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.318

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.318. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

X.3.319

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — X.3.319. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YBC 02127

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YBC 02127. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YBC 06996

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YBC 06996. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 05, 105

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 05, 105. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 10, 62

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 10, 62. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & Myth·Astronomy & Mathematics

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 15, 005

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 15, 005. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 15, 072

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 15, 072. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 15, 075

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 15, 075. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 15, 081

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 15, 081. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YOS 15, 082

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YOS 15, 082. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YRL SC 1826-Bx1-2

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YRL SC 1826-Bx1-2. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YRL SC 1826-Bx1-3

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YRL SC 1826-Bx1-3. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature·Daily Life

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YRL SC 1826-Bx2-4

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YRL SC 1826-Bx2-4. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YRL SC 1826-Bx3-3

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YRL SC 1826-Bx3-3. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YRL SC 1826-Bx3-6

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YRL SC 1826-Bx3-6. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YRL SC 1826-Bx3-8

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YRL SC 1826-Bx3-8. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YRL SC 1826-Bx3-9

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YRL SC 1826-Bx3-9. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YRL SC 1826-Bx4-1

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YRL SC 1826-Bx4-1. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YRL SC 1826-Bx4-2

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YRL SC 1826-Bx4-2. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

YRL SC 1826-Bx4-3

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — YRL SC 1826-Bx4-3. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

ZA 071, 013

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — ZA 071, 013. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & Myth

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

ZA 071, 014

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — ZA 071, 014. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & Myth

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

ZA 073, 051

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — ZA 073, 051. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Religion & Myth

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

ZA 073, 054-056

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — ZA 073, 054-056. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

ZA 073, 056

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — ZA 073, 056. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

ZA 073, 056

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — ZA 073, 056. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

ZA 073, 058

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — ZA 073, 058. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

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