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Ninurta-Pāqidāt's Dog Bite
Ninurta-Pāqidāt's Dog Bite is a comic Akkadian tale on a Neo-Babylonian tablet from Uruk, in which a man healed of a dog bite is driven from Nippur.
Nippur Old Babylonian tablets
The Nippur Old Babylonian tablets are cuneiform tablets excavated at Nippur in southern Iraq, dated roughly 2000 to 1600 BC, including Sumerian literature, school exercises, and legal contracts.
Old Assyrian eponymate
The Old Assyrian eponymate, also called the limmu system, named each year after a yearly official at Assur, dating the trade archives at Kültepe from Erishum I's reign onward.
Old Assyrian limmu list
The Old Assyrian limmu list, also called the Kültepe Eponym List, is a cuneiform text naming the officials who gave their names to Assyrian years, c. 2000–1800 BCE.
Old Assyrian period
The Old Assyrian period, also known as Old Assyria, was the era when Assur was an independent city-state whose merchants traded tin and textiles to Anatolia.
Old Assyrian trade archive
The Old Assyrian trade archive, also called the Cappadocian or Kültepe tablets, is a corpus of about 23,500 cuneiform tablets found at Kültepe, Turkey, the ancient city of Kanesh.
Old Assyrian trade network
The Old Assyrian trade network was a system of Assyrian merchant colonies in central Anatolia, centered at Kanesh, selling tin and textiles for silver and gold.
Old Babylonian Gilgamesh tablets
The Old Babylonian Gilgamesh tablets are the earliest substantial Akkadian versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh, written on clay around 1900–1600 BC, chiefly the Pennsylvania and Yale tablets.
Old Babylonian house archives of Ur
The Old Babylonian house archives of Ur are private family and business cuneiform tablet collections found in houses at Ur, Iraq, from the 19th and 18th centuries BC.
Old Babylonian mathematical tablets
Old Babylonian mathematical tablets are cuneiform tablets carrying mathematics in Mesopotamia from roughly 2000 to 1600 BC, mostly written in scribal schools as table texts and problem texts.
Old Babylonian royal inscriptions
Old Babylonian royal inscriptions are building, votive, and commemorative cuneiform texts carved by kings of the early second millennium BC, including Hammurabi, on bricks, tablets, prisms, and stone objects across Babylonia.
Old Babylonian school tablets
Old Babylonian school tablets, also called edubba tablets, are clay exercise tablets made by students in Babylonian scribal schools, preserving how scribes learned cuneiform, Sumerian, and arithmetic.
Old Babylonian treaty texts
Old Babylonian treaty texts are diplomatic agreements of the early second millennium BC in which rulers of Mari, Babylon, and Eshnunna bound themselves by oaths sworn before the gods.
Plimpton 322
Plimpton 322 is an Old Babylonian clay tablet from around 1800 BCE whose fifteen rows of numbers form Pythagorean triples; it is held at Columbia University.
Proclamation of Ammi-ṣaduqa
The Proclamation of Ammi-ṣaduqa, or Edict of Ammi-ṣaduqa, is the mēšarum debt-remission edict of Babylonian king Ammi-ṣaduqa, issued in 1646 BC, canceling debts and freeing debt-servants.
Samsu-iluna correspondence
The Samsu-iluna correspondence is the small corpus of royal letters sent directly by Samsu-iluna, king of Babylon (r. c. 1749–1712 BC), documenting revolts and administration.
Sealand dynasty
The Sealand dynasty, or Dynasty of the Sealand, ruled southernmost Babylonia from about 1720 to 1475 BCE, between rebellions against Babylon's first dynasty and the region's unification by Kassite kings.
Sealand dynasty texts
The Sealand dynasty texts, also known as Sealand I tablets, are cuneiform records of a dynasty that ruled southern Babylonia from about 1720 to 1475 BCE.
Shaduppum tablets
The Shaduppum tablets, also called the Tell Harmal tablets, are an Old Babylonian archive of about 3,000 cuneiform tablets excavated at Tell Harmal, ancient Shaduppum, east of Baghdad.
Shusharra archive
The Shusharra archive, also known as the Tell Shemshara archive, is a group of some 250 cuneiform tablets from around 1780 BC, found in Iraq.
Sippar Old Babylonian archives
The Sippar Old Babylonian archives, also known as the Sippar tablets, are cuneiform tablet finds from the twin towns of Sippar near Baghdad, dating to about 1900–1600 BC, including the largest private archive of the period.
Tell al-Rimah archive
The Tell al-Rimah archive, also known as the Karana or Qattara archive, is an Old Babylonian tablet archive from the kingdom of Qattara in northern Iraq, found in the 1960s.
Tell Leilan tablets
The Tell Leilan tablets, also called the Shubat-Enlil archive, are Old Babylonian cuneiform archives of over 600 tablets found since 1985 at Tell Leilan, Syria, ancient Šubat-Enlil, including royal letters, treaties, and a Sumerian King List.
Tell Muhammad archive
The Tell Muhammad archive, also known as the Tell Muhammad tablets, is a corpus of cuneiform tablets from Tell Muhammad near Baghdad, dating to the late Old Babylonian period.
Urra=hubullu
Urra=hubullu, also known as Harra=hubullu, is an ancient Mesopotamian lexical series pairing Sumerian words with their Akkadian equivalents, first compiled around 1900–1600 BC and copied for over a millennium.
Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa
The Venus Tablet of Ammisaduqa, also called Enuma Anu Enlil tablet 63, is a Babylonian text recording Venus's risings and settings over 21 years of King Ammi-ṣaduqa's reign.
Wabartum
Wabartum is the Akkadian term for a small Assyrian trading station in the Old Assyrian caravan network between Assur and Anatolia, around 2000 to 1700 BC.
Wardum
Wardum was the Akkadian term for a slave or servant in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia, the lowest of three status terms in the Laws of Hammurabi, entered mainly through debt.
Weidner god list
The Weidner god list, known as Anum, is a standardized Mesopotamian list of divine names. Attested from the Ur III period to Neo-Babylonian times, it served as training material for scribes.
Yale culinary tablets
The Yale culinary tablets are four cuneiform tablets in Yale's Babylonian Collection holding the oldest known written recipes: three Old Babylonian tablets from around 1700 BC with 25 stew and broth recipes.