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 7.2.u73 - Uncertain Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small fragment preserves 9 lines from the upper or lower part of a tablet. It belongs to the AH.83-1-18 consignment, which contains tablets mostly from Sippar.	CCP 7.1.6.A.a - Divine names A Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small fragment preserves a few lines of a commentary that is better known from the tablet BM 47458 (= CCP 7.1.6.A.b).	CCP 3.1.58.C.e - Enūma Anu Enlil 58(59)-62(63) Group C C Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This fragment preserves remains on a commentary on omens relating to the planet Venus.	CCP 6.7.u1 - Uncertain W 22712/1a is a fragment from Seleucid period Uruk that was found in the third level of the House of the āšipu
CCP 7.2.u6 - Uncertain Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small fragment was classified as a commentary in J. C. Fincke’s electronic catalog of the Babylonian tablets in the Kuyunjik collection.	CCP 7.2.u7 - Uncertain Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small fragment was classified as a commentary in J. C. Fincke’s electronic catalog of the Babylonian tablets in the Kuyunjik collection. In spite of its small size, several equations are preserved, some of which are rather uncommon.	CCP 7.2.u8 - Uncertain Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small and difficult to read fragment contains meager reamains of a commentary.	CCP 6.1.2.B - Aa I/2 (?) B Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This fragment contains remains of a commentary on a text of uncertain nature. The fact that it features a technical lexical term (ka.ka.si.ga, b 3′) suggests that the base text may be of lexical nature.

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