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

5,429 of 102,257 tablets · 3 filters activeClear filters

2901–2950 of 5429

Page 59 / 109

~715 BCE·Neo-AssyrianSAA 5

SAA 05 297. Transporting Stone Thresholds and Raising a Bull Colossus (ABL 0957)

(Beginning destroyed) (4) [I have brought] stone thre[sholds acr]oss (the river), but five [of them] remain [the]re. [I have appoi]nted [the chief...] in charge of them, saying: "Bring [them] across!" (8) On the first day [I to]ok [x] king's men with [me] and went to [Tas]tiate to raise the bull colossus. It has been hewn and [...]. (r 2) I am [n]ow spreading poles against [the qu]ay and raising the [bu]ll colossus. We will do it all right; the king, my lord, can be glad.

SAA 05 297. Transporting Stone Thresholds and Raising a Bull Colossus (ABL 0957)

SAA 05 298. Moving Bull Colossi Across the River (ABL 1362)

SAA 05 299. Working and Loading Bull Colossi (CT 53 201)

SAA 05 300. Fragment Referring to a Bull Colossus (CT 53 268)

SAA 15 001. Ru’uaean Eunuch Returned from Damascus; the City Wall of Meturna (ABL 0158)

SAA 15 002. Dangerous Boat Trip; King Approaching Uruk (ABL 1056)

SAA 15 003. Cavalry of Nibe (ABL 0159)

SAA 15 004. Physicians for the King; Inscriptions for a Temple in Der (ABL 0157)

SAA 15 005. We Did not See the Moon (ABL 0162)

SAA 15 006. Claiming Reward for Good News of Rain (ABL 0707)

SAA 15 007. Servants of Bel-ahhe-eriba Appeal to the King (ABL 0708)

SAA 15 008. The People and Goods of Nabu-ahhe-iddina (ABL 0163)

SAA 15 009. The Palace Manager of Arrapha and Writing-Boards (ABL 0160)

SAA 15 010. Distributing Barley Rations (CT 53 481)

SAA 15 011. Providing for Bel-iqiša (ABL 0161)

SAA 15 012. Escorting Captives to [Dur]-Šarrukin (ABL 0552)

SAA 15 013. Captives (ABL 0164)

SAA 15 014. Itu’eans Working in Dur-Šarrukin (ABL 0711)

SAA 15 015. Exempting the Recruits of the Chief Eunuch (ABL 0709)

SAA 15 016. Entering Deportees into Fortified Places in Arrapha (ABL 0443)

SAA 15 018. Captives in Arrapha (CT 53 217)

SAA 15 019. Bought Slaves and Captives (CT 53 202)

SAA 15 020. Fragment Concerning Mule Express in the Province of Arrapha (CT 53 503)

SAA 15 021. Partitioning Fields in Arrapha (CT 53 887)

SAA 15 022. Fragment Mentioning Arrapha (CT 53 251)

SAA 15 023. Hailstorm (CT 53 902)

SAA 15 024. Dispute over Ownership of Towns and Lands (ABL 0168)

SAA 15 025. Attending to an Expedition of 3,000 Men in Zabban (CT 53 019)

SAA 15 026. Harvesting in Dur-Bel-ila’i and Lubda (ABL 1191)

SAA 15 027. Keeping Watch in Lubda (ABL 0810)

SAA 15 028. Imposing a Peace Treaty near Lubda (CT 53 166)

SAA 15 029. Fragment Referring to Mountains (CT 53 356)

SAA 15 030. The Son of Yakin is in Babylon; I Cannot March to Meturna (ABL 0455)

SAA 15 031. Fragment Referring to the Son of Yakin (CT 53 596)

SAA 15 032. Merodach-Baladan’s Envoys Meet the Elamite King’s Brother-in-Law (ABL 1453+)

SAA 15 033. News of Borsippa, Sippar, Elam and the Son of Yakin (ABL 1003)

SAA 15 034. A Bodyguard Sends the Magnates Off (ABL 0598)

SAA 15 035. Letter to Nabu-iqiša; King’s Magnates in Ellipi (ABL 0169)

SAA 15 036. Letter of Naṣibi to Nabu-iqiša (ABL 0170)

SAA 15 037. Shipping Tribute Oxen and Sheep from Der (CT 53 092)

SAA 15 038. An Attack in the Reed Thicket (CT 53 322)

SAA 15 039. The Scholar in my Service (ABL 0172)

SAA 15 040. Deporting People from Babylonia (ABL 0712)

SAA 15 043. Retaliation for Deserters (CT 53 630)

SAA 15 044. Fragment Mentioning a Hundred Chariots (CT 53 554)

SAA 15 045. Reviewing Implements in Bab-bitqi (ABL 1312)

SAA 15 046. (no title) (CT 53 689)

SAA 15 047. (no title) (CT 53 790)

SAA 15 048. Tabaleans on a Military Campaign (CT 53 039)

SAA 15 049. Giving Out Land (CT 53 287)