All tablets.

Cuneiform tablet- loan of silver MET hb66 245 17b a

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- loan of silver MET hb66 245 17b b

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- loan of silver MET ME66 245 14a

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- loan of silver MET ME86 11 224

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

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

Mythology

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.

Mythology

Ur Bau tablet AO261 mp3h9041

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~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

Adad-narari I 01

Lists the cities and peoples — Kassites, Gutians, Lullumê, Šubareans — subjugated by Adad-nārārī I, documenting Assyria's territorial expansion toward the Euphrates and into Mitanni's former heartland around 1300 BCE.

Aššur-bel-kala 01

Attests Aššur-bel-kala's campaign against the land Ḫimme, preserving early Assyrian royal rhetoric of total destruction — flaying, mass deportation, corpse-mounds — that would define the empire's self-presentation for centuries.

Aššur-bel-kala 08

Attests Aššur-bēl-kala's titulature and genealogy — anchoring his reign within the Tiglath-pileser I dynasty — though heavy damage leaves his specific deeds and the presiding eponym unrecoverable.

Aššur-bel-kala 09

Records Aššur-bel-kala crossing the Euphrates twice in one year on goatskin rafts to pursue Aramean and Sutean groups near Mount Lebanon — early evidence of Assyrian military pressure on these semi-nomadic peoples.

Aššur-reša-iši I 02

Records Aššur-rēša-iši I's construction at the Ištar temple in Nineveh, situating this reign within the architectural patronage that defined Middle Assyrian kingship's claim to divine favour from Anu, Enlil, and Ea.

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).

Mythology

Eriba-Adad II 1

Preserves the titulary of Erība-Adad II, attesting the full fourfold royal ideology — king of the world, Assyria, and the four quarters — at the dawn of the Middle Assyrian imperial self-conception.

~1300 BCE·Middle BabylonianEditorial

Šamši-Adad IV 1

Documents Šamšī-Adad IV's restoration of the Assyrian Ištar temple at Aššur, anchoring the reign's chronology to a specific eponymy date and establishing the dynastic continuity he claimed from Tiglath-pileser I.

Shalmaneser I 09

Records Shalmaneser I's restoration of the Libūr-šalḫī Gate at Aššur, fixing the king's piety and building programme in the mid-13th century BCE, before Assyria's rise to full imperial power.

Shalmaneser I 17

Credits Ištar of Nineveh — not Aššur alone — as the divine force behind Shalmaneser I's campaigns against Šubarû, Lullumê, and Qutû, documenting the goddess's role in mid-13th-century Assyrian royal ideology.

Shalmaneser I 18

Shalmaneser I's titulary here fuses Enlil-derived legitimacy with military conquest across Qutû, Lullumê, and Šubarû, documenting the mid-13th-century BCE consolidation of Assyrian royal ideology in its earliest monumental form.

Tiglath-pileser I 01

Opens with the fullest early pantheon invocation in Tiglath-pileser I's royal corpus, mapping the precise hierarchy — Aššur, Enlil, Sîn, Šamaš, Adad, Ninurta — that legitimised Middle Assyrian imperial kingship.

Tiglath-pileser I 02

Preserves the divine invocation formula of Tiglath-pileser I, naming Aššur, Enlil, Sîn, Šamaš, and Adad as guarantors of Assyrian royal authority — a theological blueprint for Middle Assyrian kingship ideology.

Tiglath-pileser I 10

Attests Tiglath-pileser I's claim to rule 'from Babylon to the Upper Sea of Amurru' — pinning the rhetorical geography of Middle Assyrian imperial ideology to a specific, verifiable territorial horizon.

Tiglath-pileser I 12

Lists fourteen conquered cities in the lands of Qumanî and Ḫabḫu — territories whose rulers had withheld tribute from Aššur — supplying rare toponymic evidence for Assyrian expansion into the northern periphery under Tiglath-pileser I.