Babylonian Texts of the First Millennium B.C.
Issuing from one of the three best documented epochs of the Mesopotamian History, the First Millennium B.C. Babylonian texts represent an enormous database for the research on the every day life history. The texts (mostly administrative, juridical and economic) permit us an analysis of the material divided by temple, familial and personal archives.
There follow a few examples of these transcribed texts by János Everling. All citations of CAD, HKL and RGTC are incorporated. The material has been elaborated since 1995 and it needs a proof-reading. Thus if you agree that the work of several people can produce a better result than that of same number of persons working independently, than you may contribute to finish this Chrestomatia. "There is no perfect act, only perfect wish." (The transcriptions are based on R. Borger, Assyrisch-babylonische Zeichenliste, (2. Auflage), Neukirchen-Vluyn 1981.)
Actually the Archive is composed of 26875 transcribed texts. It covers the following periods:
The Archive is divided into six main fields: 1. General lists concerning all periods, 2. Text editions, 3. List of familial and individual archives, 4. Thematical databases, 5. Main Assyriological ressources of Net, 6. Main Bibliographies. I hope you find these transcriptions useful and will benefit from its existence.
The unpublished Bertin copies are quoted by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum. I wish to thank F. Joannes for his improvements of the trasliterations, and G. del Monte and C. Wunsch for providing me inaccessible and still not published materials of texts.
The aim of this Archive is to raise from the dead the ancient Babylonians of the First Millennium and recreate their acts in the Cyberspace.
General lists for the Study of the First Millennium B.C. Babylonian Texts
(Alphabetical list of every text edition containing all Ahw, CAD, HKL RGTC references) |
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(Chronological list of all periods) |
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(Alphabetical list of every personal name from all periods) |
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(Chronological list of the main Babylonian towns) |
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Text Edition
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3. List of Familial and Individual Archives
(A text is considered to belonging to an archive if the requested family/personal name appears on it or if it should be reconstructed in all probability.)
3.1. Familial Archives
(Chronological list of Familial Archives.)
(Babylon, Uruk, Sippar, Borsippa) |
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3.2. Individual Archives
(Chronological list of Individual Archives.)
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4. Thematical Databases
4.1. Archives of multiple periods
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4.2. Archives of a single period
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Main Assyriological Databases on the Net
Abzu (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) |
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions (University of Chicago) |
CDLI (University of California) |
Classics in Mediterranean (University of Michigan) |
ETCSL (University of Oxford) |
Index of Sumerian (S. Tinney) |
Lexicon of Sumerian (J.A. Halloran) |
Mesopotamian Year Names (M. Sigrist, P. Damerow) |
NINO (Netherlands Institute for the Near East, University of Leiden) |
Main Bibliographies
AEB (University of Leiden) |
Library Catalogue (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) |
Nestor (University of Indiana) |
TOCS-IN (University of Toronto) |
Corrections, comments and suggestions are welcome at the editor of this page.
Copyright © 1995-2001 János Everling. All Rights Reserved. Last revised: April 2001.
(History: first attempt to transcribe a cuneiform text: 16 August 1995, opening of this site: 16 August 1998)