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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 1.5 - Literary Prayer to Marduk 2 [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small and badly damaged tablet contains a commentary that deals with the first sixty-eight lines of the literary prayer Lord, Sage of the Igigi, a text frequently called, after Lambert’s pioneering edition,	CCP 7.2.u9 - Uncertain [4] [4] This small fragment from Nippur was provisionally identified as an Izbu or Ālu commentary by M. Civil, but as a medical commentary by E. Reiner.	CCP 4.1.7.C.a - Sagig 7 C [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] [5] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum The present tablet contains a previously unidentified commentary on the poorly preserved seventh tablet of the diagnostic series Sagig, which deals with symptoms in the patient’s tongue.	CCP 3.6.3.E - Šumma immeru, Izbu aḫû E [6] [6] This tablet is a commentary concerned with explicating words and phrases belonging to the šumma immeru (‘If a sheep’) omen series and possibly also to non-canonical or extraneous omens of the šumma izbu (‘If a foetus’) omen series.
CCP 4.1.4.C.b - Sagig 4 C [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] [7] Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum This small fragment contains meager remains of a commentary on an unknown text.	CCP 4.1.3.A - Sagig 3 A [8] [8] This small fragment from Uruk contains remains of a commentary on the third chapter of the medical series of diagnoses and prognoses, Sagig.	CCP 4.1.3.C - Sagig 3 [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 This small tablet consists of two rejoined fragments, BM 43854 and BM 43938, both of which belong to the 81-7-1 consignment of the British Museum’s “Babylon Collection.” It contains the lower part of a commentary on the third chapter of the diagno	CCP 3.1.u97 - Enūma Anu Enlil, eclipses [10] [10] Courtesy of the Oriental Institute, U. Chicago This fragment of a commentary, kept in the Tablet Collection of the Oriental Institute (University of Chicago),

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