Mesopotamian commentaries represent the world’s oldest cohesive group of hermeneutic texts. Numbering nearly 900, the earliest date to the eighth century and the latest to ca. 100 BCE. The purpose of this website is to make the corpus available both to the scholarly community and a more general audience by providing background information on the genre, a searchable catalog, as well as photos, drawings, annotated editions, and translations of individual commentary tablets. For the first time the cuneiform commentaries, currently scattered over 21 museums around the globe, will be accessible on one platform.

The Cuneiform Commentaries Project is funded by Yale University (2013-2016) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (Division of Research Programs “Scholarly Editions and Translations,” 2015-2018).

Recent additions to the corpus

CCP 3.9.u4 - Uncertain Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small fragment was classified by Lambert	CCP 4.1.13.A - Sagig 13 (?) A This small tablet contains entries of a commentary on an unknown text. The tablet was published a hundred years ago by J.-V.	CCP 4.1.13.B - Sagig 13 and 12 B © Yale Babylonian Collection This small tablet contains a complete commentary on the series of medical diagnoses and prognoses Sagig.	CCP 4.1.18 - Sagig 18 Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This tablet is one of the few previously unpublished commentaries on the medical series of diagnostic and prognostic Sagig. It contains some 15 damaged lines belonging to the end of the tablet, followed by a ṣâtu 3b rubric.
CCP 4.1.23 - Sagig 23 This tablet contains the beginning of a commentary on the 23rd tablet of the diagnostic medical series Sagig.	CCP 4.1.29 - Sagig 29 Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small tablets contains a commentary on the 23rd chapter of the medical series Sagig. A badly damaged rubric seems to classify it as a ṣâtu commentary.	CCP 4.1.40.B - Sagig 40 B This small fragment contains meager remains of a commentary on the 40th tablet of the diagnostic series Sagig, which is concerned with child diseases.	CCP 6.1.C - Aa or Therapeutic (?) C This tiny piece is the smallest of the three commentaries found at Nippur during the eleventh campaign of the Oriental Institute (1972-73), in an unclear archaeological context, but near to other tablets from the Achaemenid period.

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