Tablet Collections
Highlights from the Garšana Collection
This archives consist of over 1400 records from a rural estate at or near the town of Garšana located somewhere in the territory of the Sumerian city of Umma. The archives date to an eight year period in the years 2031-2024 BCE during the Third Dynasty of Ur. [more]
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Highlights from the Archaic Collection
The archaic text corpus publication consists of 219 texts, mostly on complete and well preserved clay tablets. They belong to the late fourth millennium BCE and range from the Proto-literate to the Jemdet Nasr periods. The tablets contain lexical lists and administrative records dealing with personnel, fields, animals, textiles, and food. [more]
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Rare and Manuscript Collections at CDLI
Through the combined efforts of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) of the Cornell University Library, the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University, and the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) at UCLA the small but interesting collection of 194 cuneiform tablets is made available as an online data set.
David I. Owen Photo Archive
For five years (1969-1974) David I. Owen was an assistant curator and research associate at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. During this time he photographed hundreds of Sumerian and Babylonian cuneiform economic and literary tablets for his publications and for the publications of other scholars working in the Babylonian Section of the Museum. The majority of these photos were used by scholars to facilitate their research and publication but were often never published. Since the original photos are an important resource and record of these cuneiform texts, they have all been digitized by his son, Ethan K. Owen, who also created this web site where the photos might be accessed along with details of their respective publication records. In addition, numerous other photos have been added by Professor Owen and by Bendt Alster (Copenhagen). The site is a work-in-progress and additions to it are being made on a regular basis.