All tablets.

Cuneiform tablet- loan of silver MET vs54 117 27b

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

Cuneiform tablet- memorandum of receipt for silver, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 35

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

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

Cuneiform tablet- quittance for a loan in copper MET ME66 245 18a

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

Cuneiform tablet- quittance for a loan in silver MET DP162272

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

Cuneiform tablet- ration list MET ME11 217 16

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

Cuneiform tablet- ration list MET ME11 217 26

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

Cuneiform tablet- ration list MET ME11 217 5

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

Cuneiform tablet- receipt by proxy for silver, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 20

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

Cuneiform tablet- receipt for barley, Esagilaya archive MET ME86 11 207

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

Cuneiform tablet- receipt for rent payment, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 9

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

Cuneiform tablet- receipt for silver, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 3

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

Cuneiform tablet- receipt of silver for a wash-bowl MET ME86 11 219

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

Cuneiform tablet- record of expenditures of silver, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 107

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

Cuneiform tablet- record of sale MET ME86 11 150

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

Cuneiform tablet- record of silver for purchase of animals, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 218

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

Cuneiform tablet- record of silver for supplies, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 234

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

Cuneiform tablet- sale of real estate MET ME86 11 443

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

Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 13

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

Cuneiform tablet- slave sale, Egibi archive MET ME86 11 145

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

Dagon Museum, Cuneiform document on clay tablet

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Dagon Museum, Downtown, Haifa, Israel The Museum is dedicated to the history of grain products מוזיאון דגון בעיר התחתית בחיפה שוכן במבנה המשרדים של ממגורות דגון. המוזיאון מוקדש לתולדות הדגן ומוצריו, ו

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 the only bronze tablet found in Anatol

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 A6004 - VBot 30 - CTH 832

Jehoiachin Ration Tablet detail

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Administrative tablet from the South Palace of Babylon, dated from the reign of king Nebuchednezzar, list of rations of people feeded by the royal administration, including the ex-king of Judah, Jehoi

Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. Is a receipt for the donation of livestock to the feast for a Sumerian king

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: The oldest piece in the McDonald Rare Book Collection at OSU is a Sumerian cuneiform tablet dating approximately 2041 B.C. The fragile piece has a prosaic purpose, it's a receipt for the donation of l

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.

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.

Ur Bau tablet AO261 mp3h9041

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0 fr). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: .mw-parser-output table.commons-file-information-table,.mw-parser-output .fileinfotpl-type-information,.mw-parser-output .fileinfotpl-type-artwork{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);bac

~1791 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

PBS 08/2, 120

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — PBS 08/2, 120. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Hammurabi y2 — Year after: Hammurabi became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

EconomyWriting & Literature

~1754 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Code of Hammurabi (stele)

Not the first law code, but the most complete and the most famous. Inscribed on a black diorite stele over two meters tall, displayed in a public place — law made visible, law made monumental.

~1340 BCE·Middle BabylonianEditorial

Amarna Letter EA 153 — Abi-milku of Tyre

Part of the earliest known body of international diplomatic correspondence. Akkadian, written in cuneiform on clay, was the lingua franca of Late Bronze Age statecraft — used between Egypt, the Hittites, Mitanni, Babylon, Assyria, and the Levantine vassals.

Daily LifeLaw

~1300 BCE·Middle AssyrianEditorial

Babylonian Liver Omens 193, plts. XI & XLII-XLIII

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Middle Assyrian (ca. 1400-1000 BC)) — Babylonian Liver Omens 193, plts. XI & XLII-XLIII. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

Ashurnasirpal II 060

One of the surviving royal inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BCE), preserved in the RIAo corpus as a witness to the formulaic and historical record of early Neo-Assyrian kingship.

LawMythology

~875 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

Ashurnasirpal II 061

One of the surviving royal inscriptions of Ashurnasirpal II, whose annals collectively document the territorial expansion and brutal suppression campaigns that defined early Neo-Assyrian imperial statecraft.

LawMythology

liver omens, pl. 33

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — liver omens, pl. 33. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

liver omens, Pl. X

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — liver omens, Pl. X. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

liver omens, pl. XII

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — liver omens, pl. XII. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

liver omens, pl. XVIII

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — liver omens, pl. XVIII. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

liver omens, pl. XX

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — liver omens, pl. XX. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

liver omens, pl. XXIX

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — liver omens, pl. XXIX. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

liver omens, tb. XVII (K.12792)

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — liver omens, tb. XVII (K.12792). No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Solar Omens, pl. IX-X

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — Solar Omens, pl. IX-X. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Solar Omens, pl. V

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — Solar Omens, pl. V. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

~700 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

Venus pl. 4

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911-612 BC)) — Venus pl. 4. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Astronomy & Mathematics

Gilgamesh Tablet XI.svg

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Between 1845 and 1851 CE, Sir Austen Henry Layard uncovered the cuneiform library of King Assurbanipal in Nineveh. These texts, most of which dated to the 7th century BCE, were brought back to the Bri

~695 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

Sennacherib's Annals (Taylor Prism)

One of the rare cuneiform texts that explicitly cross-references the Hebrew Bible: the same historical event narrated by both sides. The Taylor Prism gives us the Assyrian view of a moment the biblical authors framed as divine deliverance. It is also a masterpiece of imperial propaganda — the prismatic shape allows the text to be read on six faces, the cuneiform is meticulous, the rhetoric calibrated to terrify potential rebels.

Writing & LiteratureLaw

~650 BCE·Neo-AssyrianEditorial

Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI (the Flood)

The single most important literary discovery of the 19th century. It rewired the understanding of the Bible's literary context and proved that the Mesopotamian flood tradition is older. It is the oldest surviving epic poetry in human history.

MythologyWriting & Literature

~580 BCE·Neo-BabylonianEditorial

Venus pl. 3-4

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Neo-Babylonian (ca. 626-539 BC)) — Venus pl. 3-4. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format).

Astronomy & Mathematics

~580 BCE·Neo-BabylonianEditorial

Clay Tablet with Cuneiform Script Announcing Nebuchadnezzar's Capture of Jerusalem

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Clay Tablet with Cuneiform Script Announcing Nebuchadnezzar's Capture of Jerusalem Mesopotamia 1500-539 BC Gallery, British Museum, London, England, UK. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHisto

~580 BCE·Neo-BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform cylinder- inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing restorations at Babylon MET ME86 11 282

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