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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 4.2.M.a - Therapeutic (Qutāru) M [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] © Yale Babylonian Collection This cola-type commentary on a medical text for the treatment of four types of epilepsy is one of the most frequently cited commentaries in modern secondary literature.	CCP 6.2.1 - Diri 1 [4] [4] [4] [4] [4] [4] [4] [4] © Yale Babylonian Collection This small fragment in the Yale Babylonian Collection preserves the lower right corner of a tablet with entries of the first tablet of Diri. Eckart Frahm	CCP 3.1.5.A - Enūma Anu Enlil 5 (?) A [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This landscape-oriented tablet contains a commentary in the indentation format, written in Babylonian script.	CCP 3.8.1.A - Iqqur īpuš, série génerale A [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] Courtesy of British Museum and Schøyen Collection The present tablet consists of two rejoined pieces, one in the Kuyunjik collection (British Museum) and one in the Schøyen collection (Norway).
CCP 3.2.2.C - Sîn ina tāmartīšu 2 (?) C [7] [7] [7] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum Very little is preserved of this tablet. Its colophon, which identifies it as belonging to the tablet collection of Nabû-zuqup-kēnu, states that it was copied from a wooden writing board.	CCP 3.1.20.B.a - Enūma Anu Enlil 20 B [8] [8] [8] This commentary is preserved on two identical tablets from Uruk.	CCP 4.1.4.B - Sagig 4 B [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] [9] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum The present tablet contains the first 19 lines of a commentary on the fourth tablet of the diagnostic medical series Sagig.	CCP 6.1.13.C - Aa II/5 (pirsu 13) C [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum The present commentary is constituted by two fragments that touch each other: BM 48261 (81-11-3,971) and BM 48380 (81-11-3,1090).

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