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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 5.1 - Codex Hammurapi [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum The Code of Hammurapi is a famous text that celebrates the achievements of king Hammurapi of Babylon (1792-1750 BCE) and, most importantly, includes a long collection of laws that are said to have been promulgated by that king.	CCP 6.1.14 - Aa II/6 (pirsu 14) [4] [4] [4] [4] [4] [4] [4] [4] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small fragment preserves remains of a commentary on the 14th pirsu of the series Aa. The section deals with the signs an and nab.	CCP 6.1.29 - Aa V/4 (pirsu 29) [5] [5] [5] This completely preserved commentary of sixty lines was found in area U XVIII 1 in Uruk.	CCP 6.1.41 - Aa VIII/3 (pirsu 41) [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] © Yale Babylonian Collection The commentaries to Aa are among the most sophisticated in the cuneiform tradition. A brief introduction to them has been written by Civil
CCP 4.2.U - Therapeutic U [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small tablet, which belongs to the British Museum’s “Sippar Collection,” contains a commentary on a medical text.	CCP 4.2.X - Therapeutic (?) X [8] [8] Little can be said of this fragment, of which not a single equation is preserved. E.	CCP 4.2.J - Therapeutic (ears) J [9] [9] The present tablet contains remains of a commentary on a therapeutic text concerned with ear treatments. A few of the lines from the base text can be identified in certain medical texts (see ll.	CCP 4.1.10 - Sagig 10-11 [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This tablet contains what is in all likelihood the latest known commentary on Sagig, the Akkadian treatise on medical diagnostics and prognostics.

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