The Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period (also known as "King List 6") is an important historiographical document from ancient Babylonia.The Babylonian King List of the Hellenistic Period (also known as "King List 6") is an important historiographical document…
Chroniques Mésopotamiennes 42 (CM 42) is a fragment of a larger Mesopotamian chronicle on the Kings of the Sealand.The following text is a very small fragment of a Mesopotamian chronicle, written in Babylonian. The tablet deals with the history of…
CM 48 (Chroniques Mésopotamiennes 48): chronicle of the reign of king Šulgi of Ur.The following text, written in Uruk in the year 251 BCE, is part of a Babylonian chronicle, and deals with reign of the godless Sumerian king Šulgi…
The Chronographic Document concerning Nabonidus is a cuneiform text that describes events from the second and third years of the reign of Nabonidus (r.556-539). The following chronographic document is a damaged part of what may have been a Babylonian chronicle from…
CM 7 (Chroniques Mésopotamiennes 7): Sumerian text on the history of the Tummal sanctuary in Nippur.This chronicle is a Sumerian text on the history of the Tummal sanctuary in Nippur, where the goddess Ninlil was venerated, the divine spouse of…
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum: the world's largest collection of Latin inscriptions.
An inscription from Lepcis Magna
Many Latin inscriptions have been published in…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.Inscription on a Fluted Bowl of a king named Darius
[Inscription on a fluted bowl of Darius I the…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.D2Ha, gold tablet from Ecbatana
[Stereotypical inscription on a gold tablet, similar to A2Hc.]
A great god is Ahuramazda, who…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.D2Sa, inscription on a column base
[Badly damaged column base.]
imam \ apadânam \ stûnâya \ athagainam \
Dârayavauš \ XŠ…
Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions: collection of Old Persian cuneiform texts from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE, left by the Achaemenid kings on their official monuments.D2Sb, inscription on column bases
[Two column bases; Babylonian translation added.]
adam \ Dârayavauš \ XŠ \ vazraka \ XŠ…