In these pages, the the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University and the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), an international research project based at the University of California, Los Angeles, present a database of the 6557 inscribed objects in the CUNES collection. The cuneiform tablets here were digitized and much of the metadata was entered by a team of researchers supervised by David I. Owen of Cornell, including Nicole Brisch, Lisa M. Kinney-Bajwa, and Alhena Gadotti.

Introduction to the collection
CUNES homepage
Copyright
CDLI

 


Tablets by period:

   Uruk Period (ca. 3350-3000 BC)
   Early Dynastic (ca. 2600-2350 BC)
   Old Akkadian (ca. 2350-2200 BC)
   Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BC)
   Old Babylonian (ca. 2000-1600 BC)
   Middle Babylonian (ca. 1500-1000 BC)
   Neo-Babylonian (ca. 1000-540 BC)
   Uncertain date

Tablets by text genre:

   Administrative texts
   Literary texts
   Legal texts
   Letters
   Lexical texts
   Royal/Monumental texts
   Uncertain

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The tablet to the upper right (CUNES 50-11-050 = S. Monaco, CUSAS 1, 98) contains an Uruk III period (ca. 3200 BC) account from southern Mesopotamia (click image to be directed to the text’s corresponding CDLI page).




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