Read Chronology Themes Tablets Engine About

Read
Chronology
Themes
Tablets
Engine
About

Sumerian · Book

Reading the tablets…

A curated narrative reconstruction of humanity's first great civilization, sourced from the tablets themselves. Open scholarship, beautifully accessible.

The site

About the project The engine Dossiers FAQ Methodology Sources & licensing Provenance & ethics Contact & support

Legal

Independent scholarship · No academic affiliation · No institutional funding · Tablet imagery attributed per item via CDLI, ETCSL, ORACC, Wikimedia, and public museum collections.

Home
All tablets

The corpus

All tablets.

Every tablet in the corpus — sortable by date, title or period; filterable by theme and period. Use the controls below or change the URL parameters directly.

Sort

Oldest first Newest first Title (A–Z)By period

Theme

Religion & Myth Law Economy Astronomy & Mathematics Daily Life Writing & Literature

Period

Ubaid Uruk Period Early Dynastic Akkadian Empire Ur III · Neo-Sumerian Old Babylonian Old Assyrian Middle Babylonian Middle Assyrian Neo-Assyrian Neo-Babylonian Achaemenid Persian

Source

Editorial Sumerian literature Sumerian royal Assyrian royal Assyrian archives

22,087 of 102,257 tablets · 2 filters activeClear filters

20001–20050 of 22087

Page 401 / 442

Cuneiform tablet- payment agreement MET ME86 11 208

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

Cuneiform tablet- private letter concerning consignment of textiles MET ME66 245 11

Cuneiform tablet- private letter fragment MET ME58 108

Cuneiform tablet- private letter fragment MET ME66 245 6

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET DP-12499-013

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET DP-12499-014

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET DP-13441-002

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET DP-13441-003

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET DP110638

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET ME1983 135 6a

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET ME66 245 1

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET ME66 245 2

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET ME66 245 3

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET ME66 245 4

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET ME66 245 7

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET ME66 245 9

Cuneiform tablet- private letter MET vsx706 4a

Cuneiform tablet- procedure text for the moon MET ME86 11 363

Cuneiform tablet- proxy contract for the purchase of a slave, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 11

Cuneiform tablet- purchase of a field MET ME86 11 174

Cuneiform tablet- purchase of a house MET ME86 11 296

Cuneiform tablet- purchase of date-palm orchard MET ME86 11 217

Cuneiform tablet- quittance, Egibi archive MET ME79 7 37

Cuneiform tablet- quittance, Esagilaya archive MET ME86 11 308

Cuneiform tablet- quittance (?), Esagilaya archive MET ME86 11 333

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

Cuneiform tablet- quittance for a loan in silver MET DP162272

Cuneiform tablet- quittance for dates, Esagilaya archive MET ME86 11 343

Cuneiform tablet- quittance MET DP162270

Cuneiform tablet- ration list MET ME11 217 16

Cuneiform tablet- ration list MET ME11 217 26

Cuneiform tablet- ration list MET ME11 217 5

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

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

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

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

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

Cuneiform tablet- record of a judicial decision MET vs86 11 422 515 516

Cuneiform tablet- record of a lawsuit MET DP162268

Cuneiform tablet- record of allocations of animal fodder, Ebabbar archive MET vs86 11 441

Cuneiform tablet- record of barley allocations, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 124

Cuneiform tablet- record of barley allocations MET ME62 85 1

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

Cuneiform tablet- record of payment for oxen, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 157

Cuneiform tablet- record of sale MET ME86 11 150

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

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

Cuneiform tablet- record of stones, Ebabbar archive MET ME86 11 209

Cuneiform tablet recording observation of Halley's Comet