Resources

Documentation

Geographical extension of cuneiform script (PDF)

Assyriological websites

CDLI
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative is the largest online database of cuneiform texts. It makes available more than 200,000 texts in photos / copies, transliterations and sometimes translations.

CDLI wiki
Directly linked to the CDLI, this wiki dedicated to the Ancient Near East includes encyclopedic articles and tools. It is a collaborative project involving French and British Assyriologists.

CDLI showcase
Slides (for iPad tablet) presenting images of cuneiform inscriptions and related archaeological artifacts with a short text.

Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives (Etana)
Tools and archives on the ancient Near East including thousands of scans of ancient books and the database eTact which proposes translations of Akkadian cuneiform texts.

IAA
Website of the International Association for Assyriology. The three main entries are the following:

“What is Assyriology” addresses a wider public and includes general presentations, film and resources,
“IAA and Rencontre” contains data linked to the association and its yearly congress,
“New and currents events” proposes the newsletter of the IAA, its statements and news concerning the Near East.

Assyriological bibliography

KeiBi
Keilschriftbibliographie: website listing all the publications in Assyriology.

Dictionaries

Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
The 26 volumes of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (English) published by Chicago University can be downloaded there.

ePSD
Online Sumerian Dictionary of the University of Philadelphia.

Museums

British Museum (Middle East)
Website of the British Museum’s Department of the Middle East (London, United Kingdom)

Istanbul Archaeology Museum
Website in English of the collections of the Ancient Orient Museum (Istanbul, Turkey).

Louvre, Antiquités Orientales
Website in French of the Département des Antiquités Orientales of the Musée du Louvre (Paris).

Metropolitan Museum of Art (ANE)
Website of the Departement dedicated to the Ancient Near East of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York (USA).

National Museum of Iraq
Website of the National Museum of Baghdad (Iraq). A virtual visit of this museum is also possible.

Oriental Institute
Mesopotamian collections of the museum of the Oriental Institute of Chicago (USA).

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Collections of Penn, Babylonian and Ancient Near Eastern collections, Pennsylvania (USA).

Vorderasiatisches Museum
Website of the Vorderasiatische Museum of Berlin (Germany).

Ancient texts online

Achemenet
Website dedicated to the Achaemenid Empire including online cuneiform and Egyptian texts, online publications and a virtual museum.

ARCHIBAB
Database in French of Old Babylonian texts in transliteration, and bibliography for the Old Babylonian period.

Base de Datos de Textos Neo-Sumerios (BDTNS)
Database in Spanish of Ur III texts in transliteration.

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative is the largest online database of cuneiform texts. It makes available more than 200,000 texts in photos / copies, transliterations and sometimes translations.

Ebla digital archives (EbDA)
Database of the cuneiform texts excavated at Ebla; texts are given in transliteration.

Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL)
Presentation in transliteration and translation (in English) of the Sumerian literary texts.

HPM-Altassyrische Texte
Section of the Hethitologie Portal Mainz proposing transliterations of Old Assyrian texts by publication volumes or by excavating years.

Middle Euphrates Digital Archive (MEDA)
This database of the Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici of the Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale” all Emar texts published dated to the Late Bronze Age (Italy).

Old Babylonian Text Corpus (OBTC)
Database of Old Babylonian texts given in transliteration and arranged by corpus.

Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC)
Website linking to some twenty websites giving access to text corpora in transliterations, to books contents, to thematic sites or pedagogical tools.

Sources of Early Akkadian Literature (SEAL)
The website provides an online text corpus, in transliteration, translation and commentaries of Assyrian and Babylonian literary texts from the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC.