Penn Museum

In these pages, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Pennsylvania and the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), an international research project based at the University of California, Los Angeles, present a database of the inscribed objects in the Philadelphia collection. In an initial phase of this collaboration funded by a grant from by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and directed by Stephen J. Tinney, Professor of Assyriology at Penn’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, postdoctoral associate Ilona Zsolnay and UPenn students XXX and YYY are digitizing the Nippur and Ur collections of the museum. XXX

Penn Museum tablets by period:

Penn Museum tablets by provenience (only major sites):

Penn Museum tablets by text genre:

Penn Museum tablets by type:

Copyright and Permission for Use

The digitized images of photographs and original tablets presented in the joint database of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, and the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, Los Angeles/Berlin, are for the personal, non-profit use of students, scholars, and the public. All such images are subject to copyright laws and are the exclusive property of the Penn Museum. Reproduction, publication or commercial use of these images is strictly prohibited without prior written permission from the Museum.

For further information, please contact:

Penn Museum Images
3260 South Street
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: 001 215 898-4000
info@pennmuseum.org

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
398 Humanities Building
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511
Tel: 001 310 267-2556
cdli@ucla.edu