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~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

JCS 24, 093, 03

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — JCS 24, 093, 03. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in the translit…

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~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

JCS 24, 093, 06

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — JCS 24, 093, 06. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in the translit…

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~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

JCS 24, 093, 15

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — JCS 24, 093, 15. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in the translit…

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~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

JCS 24, 093, 21

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1900 BC)) — JCS 24, 093, 21. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in the tr…

Economy

~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

JCS 36, 170, UM 29-15-855

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — JCS 36, 170, UM 29-15-855. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in th…

Economy

~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

SA 175

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — SA 175. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliteration.

Economy

~1822 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

SAOC 44, 67

Catalogue entry from CDLI (Old Babylonian (ca. 1900-1600 BC)) — SAOC 44, 67. No scholarly translation has been published; the transliteration is from the ATF (CDLI's Atf-Friendly format). [year-name] Dated to Rim-Sin I y1 — Rim-Sin became king based on canonical year-name formula in the transliterat…

Law

~1808 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Sumerian King List (Weld-Blundell Prism)

The single most influential Mesopotamian king list — the model for every later attempt to chronicle the deep history of the region. It transmits the political theology of divinely granted kingship, an idea that would echo through Babylon, Assyria, and into the Hebrew Bible. The Weld-Blundell prism (WB 444) at the Ashmolean is the most complete surviving copy.

Religion & Myth·Writing & Literature

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Plimpton 322

Whatever its purpose, this single tablet shows that Babylonian mathematicians, working in base-60, had an arithmetic understanding of right triangles a millennium before Pythagoras was born.

JCS 24, 093, 03

JCS 24, 093, 06

JCS 24, 093, 15

JCS 24, 093, 21

JCS 36, 170, UM 29-15-855

SA 175

SAOC 44, 67

Sumerian King List (Weld-Blundell Prism)

Plimpton 322

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana A)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana B)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana D)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana G)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana O)

A balbale to Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inanna C)

A diatribe against Engar-dug (Diatribe B)

A hymn to Haia for Rim-Sin (Rim-Sin B)

A hymn to Ninkasi

A hymn to Nungal

A love song of Shu-Suen (Shu-Suen A)

A love song of Shu-Suen (Shu-Suen B)

A love song of Shu-Suen (Shu-Suen C)

A love song of Shulgi (Shulgi Z)

A man and his god

A praise poem of Anam

A praise poem of Enlil-bani (Enlil-bani A)

A praise poem of Hammu-rabi (Hammu-rabi C)

A praise poem of Iddin-Dagan (Iddin-Dagan B)

A praise poem of Lipit-Eshtar (Lipit-Eshtar A)

A praise poem of S&icirc;n-iddinam (S&icirc;n-iddinam A)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi A)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi B)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi C)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi E)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi O)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi P)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi V)

A praise poem of Shulgi (Shulgi X)

A prayer for Rim-Sin entering the gate (Rim-Sin D)

A prayer for Rim-Sin (Rim-Sin E)

A prayer for Samsu-iluna (Samsu-iluna B)

A prayer for Samsu-iluna (Samsu-iluna C)

A prayer for Samsu-iluna (Samsu-iluna G)

A shir-namshub to Nisaba (Nisaba B)

A song of Inana and Dumuzi (Dumuzi-Inana W)

A song of Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana C1)

A song of Inana and Dumuzid (Dumuzid-Inana D1)

An elegy on the death of Nannaya (Elegy 1)

An elegy on the death of Nawirtum (Elegy 2)

Proverbs: collection 1

A praise poem of Sîn-iddinam (Sîn-iddinam A)