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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 3.1.55.A - Enūma Anu Enlil 55 A [3] [3] [3] [3] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This tablet, found on Kuyunjik, Nineveh, preserves twenty lines from the middle of a commentary on the astrological series Enūma Anu Enlil.	CCP 3.9.u7 - Enūma Anu Enlil 5 (?) [4] [4] [4] [4] [4] [4] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small fragment contains remains of a commentary on an astrological text. It is divided in two sections by a ruling after line 4′. The first section probably elaborates on astronomical omens by interpreting them as the movement of planets.	CCP 7.2.u71 - Uncertain [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small fragment contains the remains of what appears to be a commentary text with cola. It belongs to the British Museum’s “Sippar Collection,” and comes probably from Sippar.	CCP 3.1.58.A.b - Enūma Anu Enlil 58(59)-62(63) Group B A [6] [6] [6] [6] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum A mukallimtu commentary from Nineveh on 24 omens
CCP 2.1.B - Šurpu, Medical text (?) B [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum The upper portion of the obverse of a two-column commentary in tabular-format. While the entries in ll. 1-21 of column 1 are drawn from Šurpu II, III and IV, the precise identity of the source of the subsequent entries is unclear. R.	CCP 3.6.1.A.l - Izbu (gurru maḫīru) A [8] [8] [8] © Vorderasiatisches Museum This school tablet was found at Assur, in the House N2. As such, it very likely belonged to the archive of Nabû-aḫa-iddina and Šumma-balāṭ.	CCP 4.2.B - Therapeutic (šumma amēlu qablāšu ikkalāšu, bulṭu bīt Dābibi 24) B [9] [9] This tablet contains a well-preserved commentary of twenty-seven lines that was found during the eleventh campaign of excavations of the Oriental Institute at Nippur (1972/1973).	CCP 3.8.2.A - Iqqur īpuš, série mensuelle (Tašrītu) A [10] [10] [10] [10] [10] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This commentary is preserved in a fragmentary tablet from the British Museum's "Babylon Collection," published in CT 41 39. It was edited by Labat many years ago,

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