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.u2 - Uncertain This small fragment was identified as a fragment from a commentary text and published in copy by Hunger.	CCP 7.2.u43 - Uncertain Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This fragment preserves remains of a commentary on an unidentified text. Since some of its lines equate constellations and gods, and one entry cites the “Great Star List” (l.	CCP 7.2.u3 - Uncertain This small fragment, published in copy only as SpTU 1 164, contains some glosses on an unknown text.	CCP 7.2.u19 - Uncertain Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small fragment preserves meager remains of a commentary text. Only one equation is certain: luḫ = salāḫu, "luḫ means 'to sprinkle'," which is seemingly elsewhere unattested.
CCP 7.2.u24 - Uncertain Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This tablet belongs to the 80-11-12 consignment, a collection believed to have originated mostly in Babylon. It contains a tabular commentary on an unknown Sumerian text, perhaps an incantation or a lexical text.	CCP 7.2.u32 - Uncertain (ritual/qualifications of the diviner) Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum The present tablet is a damaged treatise of heterogeneous character.	CCP 6.7.B - Weidner's God List B The lexical list known as Weidner’s God List (WGL) or Anum (after its incipit) was significant enough that it prompted numerous copies.	CCP 6.1.9 - Aa II/1 (pirsu 9) This small and badly broken fragment contains meager remains of a commentary on the beginning of the second tablet of the lexical series Ea.

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