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

3,727 of 102,257 tablets · 4 filters activeClear filters

2201–2250 of 3727

Page 45 / 75

~1300 BCE·Middle Assyrian

Our engine

Tiglath-pileser I 07

[...] ... the land [...] [...] ... the city of Babylon [...] [... the land Kardu]niaš I indeed con[quered ...] [...] his palace I indeed [...] [...] their [...] in [...] [...] ... his/its [...] [...] ... [...] (remainder broken)

Writing & Literature·Religion & Myth

~1300 BCE·Middle AssyrianOur engine

Tiglath-pileser I 1001

(1) The temple [...] (2) at the gate of ... [...] (3) palaces, resi[dences of kingship, ...] (4) I constructed [...] (5) Plows in the districts [of my land ...] (6) chariots (with) tea[ms of yoked horses ...] (7) herds of ... [...] (8) over which I had gained dominion [...] (9) Cedar, ḫašū[ru-wood(?), ...] (10) which in the lands of my [dominion ...] (11) those trees [...] (12) The gods Ninurta (and) Nergal [...] (13) extraordinary (wild bulls), th[ose with horns(?) ...] (14) I killed. Sixteen [live] calves [of wild bulls(?) ...] (15) [...]s ... [...] (Text breaks off)

Tiglath-pileser I 07

Tiglath-pileser I 1001

Tiglath-pileser I 1007

Tiglath-pileser I 1008

Tiglath-pileser I 1009

Tiglath-pileser I 1010

Tukulti-Ninurta I 1002

Tukulti-Ninurta I 1004

Tukulti-Ninurta I 1006

Tukulti-Ninurta I 40

Tukulti-Ninurta I 42

Adad-narari I 47

Ashurnasirpal I 1

Ashurnasirpal I 1001

Aššur-bel-kala 02

Aššur-bel-kala 03

Aššur-bel-kala 04

Aššur-bel-kala 05

Aššur-bel-kala 07

Aššur-bel-kala 10

Aššur-bel-kala 11

Aššur-bel-kala 12

Aššur-bel-kala 2001

Aššur-bel-kala 2002

Aššur-bel-nišešu 1

Aššur-bel-nišešu 1001

Aššur-dan I 1

Aššur-dan I 2001

Aššur-dan II 1

Aššur-dan II 1001

Aššur-dan II 2

Aššur-dan II 3

Aššur-dan II 4

Aššur-dan II 5

Aššur-dan II 6

Aššur-nadin-ahhe II 2

Aššur-nadin-apli 1

Aššur-nadin-apli 2

Aššur-nadin-apli 3

Aššur-narari I 01

Aššur-narari I 02

Aššur-narari I 03

Aššur-narari I 04

Aššur-narari I 05

Aššur-narari I 06

Aššur-narari I 07

Aššur-narari I 08

Aššur-narari I 09

Aššur-rabi I 1

Aššur-rem-nišešu 1