Sumerian clay tablets that, as far as we could check, had no published English translation. We translate them ourselves. Each day we publish at least ten such tablets. A new tablet is a new row in the open volume, not a list copied into every story.
All translations are new and unofficial, made from transliterations on the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), and may contain errors. Tablet images are credited to the holding institutions and CDLI. Dates use the conventional middle chronology and are approximate.
Volumes
| Volume | Tablets | Latest |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1–50 | They Will Confirm |
| 2 | 51–100 | Opens when volume 1 is full |
Find a tablet
These lists point at a volume and a row. They are not a second copy of every story. Newest first.
By place
- Garšana: 12, Say to Lalli’a · 4, Dirt on the Gardeners
- Girsu: 29, Flour for the Road East · 28, The Boundary Orchard Gang · 24, Seventy-Three Dead Animals · 19, Beer for the Fugitive-Catchers · 18, The Lady’s Runaway Fisherman · 11, The Hunt for the Palace’s Runaways · 6, Two Goats for the Road to Elam · 3, The Archivist Who Erased a Tablet
- Nippur: 23, Out of Custody in Nippur · 5, Bail in Nippur · 2, Unchained
- Puzriš-Dagan: 25, Whatever Is in the Basket · 13, Twice She Ran · 7, A Herd Shared Out
- Umma: 30, They Will Confirm · 27, Counted Short · 26, Flour for an Oath · 22, The Jenny and Her Foal · 21, Oil for the Women of Šara · 20, From Flight · 17, Once Inim-Utu Swears · 16, Never Sold · 15, Akaka, Seven Shekels · 10, Forty-Two Women of Nippur · 9, Property of the Palace? · 8, The Physician’s Missing Slave Woman · 1, The Goat That Was Stolen and Cooked
- Ur: 14, The Moon God’s Donkeys
By king
- Ibbi-Suen: 13, Twice She Ran · 5, Bail in Nippur · 1, The Goat That Was Stolen and Cooked
- Ibbi-Suen, or possibly Šulgi: 20, From Flight
- Šu-Suen: 14, The Moon God’s Donkeys · 12, Say to Lalli’a · 4, Dirt on the Gardeners
- Amar-Suen: 26, Flour for an Oath · 24, Seventy-Three Dead Animals · 23, Out of Custody in Nippur · 22, The Jenny and Her Foal · 21, Oil for the Women of Šara · 17, Once Inim-Utu Swears · 16, Never Sold · 15, Akaka, Seven Shekels · 10, Forty-Two Women of Nippur · 9, Property of the Palace? · 8, The Physician’s Missing Slave Woman · 7, A Herd Shared Out
- Amar-Suen, or possibly Išbi-Erra: 2, Unchained
- Šulgi: 28, The Boundary Orchard Gang · 3, The Archivist Who Erased a Tablet
- Year not given: 30, They Will Confirm · 29, Flour for the Road East · 27, Counted Short · 25, Whatever Is in the Basket · 19, Beer for the Fugitive-Catchers · 18, The Lady’s Runaway Fisherman · 11, The Hunt for the Palace’s Runaways · 6, Two Goats for the Road to Elam
By museum number
- P145366 · P128508 · P116379 · P405496 · P292102 · P113937 · P110315 · P113796 · P339940 · P142753 · P390085 · P248719 · P110355 · P339320 · P339321 · P412053 · P136341 · P131571 · P450151 · P128507 · P248903 · P200714 · P130120 · P115520 · P406567 · P122219 · P324075 and P324198 · P492893 · P142864 · P113863