Clay Albert T. Miscellaneous inscriptions in the Yale Babylonian collection

Yale University Press, 1915. — 174 p. — (Yale oriental series. Babylonian texts 1).During the last few years there has been assembled at Yale University a
Babylonian Collection, numbering at the present time about eight thousand
Sumerian and Akkadian inscriptions and other antiquities, belonging to all
periods in Babylonian history. It includes epics, hymns, liturgies, historical,
mathematical, and divination texts, exercises from temple schools, legal and
business transactions, official and personal letters, administrative documents
from the archives of temples, etc.
It is the purpose of the University to present this material to the Assyriological
world in a series of texts, and as far as practicable and possible the
interpretation of the same. The present volume is the first of the series, in
which is presented some of the texts of a miscellaneous character, covering a
period between four and five thousand years; There are historical texts, votive
and building inscriptions, a dynastic list, date lists, a tablet containing the most
ancient laws known, a fragment of the Hammurabi Code, and also of a
boundary stone, a mortuary inscription, a syllabary, etc.
The transliteration of the Sumerian texts is given in spaced Roman type;
the Akkadian or Semitic Babylonian and Assyrian in italics. In order to distinguish
at a glance whether the inscriptions are written on clay or inscribed
upon stone, the wedges of the cuneiform characters of the clay tablets are
reproduced in outline, i. e., with open heads; while those of stone are closed.
The only exception to this is the brick of Entemena, No. 5.