The cuneiform writing system flourished in the Near East from before 3000 BC to AD 75. This book surveys the development of the script from the earliest pictographic signs to the latest astronomical tablets and the process by which it came to be used for writing many different Near Eastern languages. Sample texts show how the script is analysed into words and syllables and how to read the names of the most famous kings as they appear on monuments. In addition, extracts from contemporary Sumerian literature and school texts give an account of the training of the scribes, and the various types of inscription they wrote are illustrated. The decipherment of cuneiform is explained and—for the collector—some guidelines for the identification of fake inscriptions are given.

Cuneiform (Reading the Past)

Politics & Social Sciences

Walker, C. B. F.

Archaeology

University of California Press

Second in a series publishing the entire Babylonian and Sumerian cuneiform holdings of the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities. Over 8000 examples acquired by the British Museum in the years 1892-8 are herein described. The collections catalogued include major archives of the Ur III and Old Babylonian periods apparently deriving from Girsu (Tello) and Sippar (Abu Habbah) or Tell ed-Der.

Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum 2

Arts & Photography

Sigrist, M.

Figulla, H. H.

History & Criticism

British Museum Press

This catalogue is the third in a series publishing the whole collection of Babylonian and Sumerian tablets in the British Museum. In this volume over 7,000 tablets acquired in the years 1898-9 are described. They include Sumerian tablets from the administrative archives of the district of Lagash of the time of the Third Dynasty of Ur, Old Babylonian tablets from the cities of Kisurra, Larsa, Sippar and Uruk, and tablets of the Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods from Babylon and Borsippa. There is also a small number of literary and historical texts.

Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum: Volume III

Zadok, Ran

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

BRITISH MUSEUM

The cuneiform writing system flourished in the Near East from before 3000 B.C. to A.D. 75. This book surveys the development of the script from the earliest pictographic signs to the latest astronomical tablets and the process by which it came to be used for writing many different Near Eastern languages. Sample texts show how the script is analyzed into words and syllables and how to read the names of the most famous kings as they appear on monuments. In addition, extracts from contemporary Sumerian literature and school texts give an account of the training of the scribes, and the various types of inscription they wrote are illustrated. The decipherment of cuneiform they wrote are illustrated. The decipherment of cuneiform is explained and - for the collector - some guidelines for the identification of fake inscriptions are given.

Reading the Past Cuneiform /anglais

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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