Assisting You to Learn

• Bibliography of Semitic Linguistics (G. del Olmo Lete)
• Mnamon - Ancient Writing Systems in the Mediterranean
• PALaC - Pre-Classical Anatolian Languages in Contact

• Overview of Sumerian Language and Culture
• Sumerian Language Page
• Daniel A. Foxvog, Introduction to Sumerian Grammar
• Daniel A. Foxvog, Elementary Sumerian Glossary
• Peter J. Huber, On the Old Babylonian Understanding of Sumerian Grammar
• Akkadian language (Babylonian and Assyrian cuneiform texts - John Heise)
• Introductory Babylonian (Robert Whiting)
• Ugaritic Grammar and Biblical Hebrew Grammar in the Twentieth Century (Mark S. Smith)
• Aramaic Lessons and Reading Classes 
• Introduction to Old Persian by P. Oktor Skjærvø

• CAD (The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)
• A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian. Addenda, corrigenda and supporting bibliography
• An Online Akkadian Dictionary
• The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon (CAL)

• Brief Explanation of the beginning of writing in Mesopotamia
• Very Early Tablet (3100-2900 BCE)
• Late Cuneiform Tablet (Hellenistic Period)
• Cuneiform tablet case 1920–1840 BCE Old Assyrian Trading Colony period Central Anatolia, Kültepe (Karum Kanesh)
• The Stanford Cuneiform Tablet Visualization Project
• Cuneiform Library at Cornell University

• Christopher Rollston, The Probable Inventors of the First Alphabet: Semites Functioning as rather High Status Personnel in a Component of the Egyptian Apparatus
• Orly Goldwasser, How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs, BAR 36 (2010)
• Anson Rainey and Orly Goldwasser - Debate on previous article
• Orly Goldwasser, “Canaanites Reading Hieroglyphs. Part I – Horus is Hathor? Part II – The Invention of the Alphabet in Sinai” Ägypten und Levante XVI (2006) 
• Prof. Fradkin's (U. of Maryland) Evolution of Alphabets
• Early Canaanite Alphabet
• (see also the chapter by J. Lam in  Christopher Woods (ed.), Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond see above)

• The Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI)
• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
• The Oracc [Open, Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus] Project List
• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative - Royal/Monumental and Votive Inscriptions of the ED IIIb (Presargonic) Period

• Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (a great electronic resource)
• The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (a great electronic resource; but check first “Display Conventions”) and Electronic Conventions for Search
  • Direct link to the Consolidated Bibliography of Sumerian Literature
  • General Catalogue of Works

 
For some illustrative examples of the texts there:

• • Enki and Ninmah
  • Enki and Ninhursanga (cf. this popular introduction to this text by S. Hagin)
  • Enki and the World Order
  • The Exaltation of Inana (Inana B)
  • Hymn to Inana (Inana C)
  • Inana and Dumuzi
  • Sargon and Ur-Zababa
  • The Cursing of Agade (Old Babylonian Version)
  • The Building of Ningirsu's Temple (Gudea Cylinders A and B)
  • The Death of Ur-Namma (Ur-Namma A) - click also here
  • A list of Royal Praise Texts (Shulgi)
  • A Praise Poem of Shulgi (Shulgi A)
  • Another Praise Poem of Shulgi (Shulgi B)
  • Lipit-Ishtar B
  • The Sumerian King List
  • Gilgamesh (/Bilgames) and Huwawa, version A - (the adventure of the cedar forest)
  • Gilgamesh (/Bilgames) and Huwawa, version B
  • Gilgamesh (/Bilgames) and the Bull of Heaven
  • Gilgamesh (/Bilgames) and Aga
  • Gilgamesh (/Bilgames), Enkidu and the nether world
  • The death of Gilgamesh (/Bilgames)
  • The death of Gilgamesh (/Bilgames)
  • The Advice of a Supervisor to a Younger Scribe (E-dub-ba-a C)
  •  Diatribe C: He is a Good seed of a Dog
  • Lament for Ur
  • Lament for Uruk
  • Lament for Nippur
  • Lament for Eridu
  • Lament for Summer and Akkad
  • Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project (PSD)
  • Prof. Dr. Pascal Attinger's site. Many French translations of Sumerian works and bibliography
  • Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions

• Basic Information about the E-DUB-BA-A (EDUBA) curriculum and bibliography (CDLI)
• The Old Babylonian School (EDUBA)
• School Tablets

• SEAL - Sources of Early Akkadian Literature: A Text Corpus of Babylonian and Assyrian Literary Texts from the 3rd and 2nd Millennia BCE
• Electronic Translations of Akkadian Cuneiform Texts  (e-TACT)
• Alan Lenzi, Reading Akkadian Prayers and Hymns: An Introduction  (ANEM/MACO; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2011)

• Atrahasis - the Babylonian tablet; a translation; a video part 1; a video part 2
• Enuma Elish (The Babylonian Epic of Creation--Translation W.G. Lambert)
• Code of Hammurabi (Avalon Project of the Yale Law School - Recommended Site, includes a glossary)

• Corpus of Ancient Mesopotamian Scholarship
• Corpus of Kassite Sumerian Texts
• Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals

• The Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI)
• The Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo)
• The Royal Inscriptions of Babylonia online (RIBo)
• The Inscriptions of Suhu online
• Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (eCUT)
• Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions online (ARIo)
• Archival Texts of the Assyrian Empire (ATAE)
• Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities (ARMEP)
• Knowledge and Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire (an excellent and undergraduate friendly site; Assyrian scholarly letters, queries and reports are made available in this site)
• The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period - RINAP (University of Pennsylvania - Neo-Assyrian Royal inscriptions available in this site
•  SAA 1-21; all State Archives of Assyria (SAA) volumes are available by slightly changing appropriately the links, for the pattern see SSA1; SAA 19.
• Cuneiform Commentaries Project
• The Babylonian Nineveh Texts (database created by Jeanette C. Fincke) - Includes excellent bibliography
• Mesopotamian Chronicles (including chronicles from the neo-Babylonian, Persian and Hellenistic periods)
• A Version of Nabonidus Verse Account
• Nabonidus Chronicle
• Cyrus (the Great) Cylinder. Text, Translation, Images and General Information
• Hellenistic Babylon
• Babylonian and Assyrian Poetry and Literature: An Archive of Recordings

• Babylonian Calendar - Based on Parker and Dubberstein

Other Mesopotamian texts and links

• Proverbs from Ki-en-gir (Sumer), c. 2000 BCE
• Characterizing Time: Mesopotamian Year Names
• The Myth of Etana
• Enki and Ninhursanga
• Ancient Near Eastern Myths - Alan Humn
• Ancient Near Eastern Treatises - Alan Humn
• Ancient Near Eastern Prayers, Hymns & Psalms - Alan Humn
• Ancient Near Eastern Amulets and Incantations - Alan Humn
• Treaties and Legal Contracts from the Ancient Near East - Alan Humn
• The Legend of Sargon of Agade
• Erra and Ishum
• Some English translations of Mesopotamian “classical” texts
• BAPLAR: Babylonian and Assyrian Poetry and Literature: An Archive of Recordings
• K.C. Hanson's Collection of Mesopotamian Documents
• Enheduanna's texts and background information
• See also Michelle Hart's Enheduanna Research Page
• Zipang Oral Archive - Popularizing literature of ancient Iraq

Some Texts and Links - The 'larger area'

• Ebla Digital Archives [EbDA]
• Idrimi, the movie
• Idrimi, the inscription
• The Amarna Tablets - Shlomo Izre'el
• CSIC - Amarna Tablets at the Vorderasiatisches Museum (Berlin)
• Rib Hadda letters: EA 75, EA 79
• More Amarna Texts
• The Baal Epic
• The Epic of Kret
• Tell Hadidi Tablets (Northern Syria, along the Euphrates; author, Robert Whiting)

• Northwest Semitic Link (Reinhard G. Lehman, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
• LINEAR-A
• LINEAR-B
• West Semitic Research Project - Educational Site
• The Incirli Stela
• Mesha Inscription (text) - Mesha Inscription (picture-Louvre)
• K. C. Hanson's Collection of West Semitic Documents
• Hebrew Script and documents (popular site - nice pictures)
• Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

Free ANE Fonts:

• Ugaritic and Moabite (unicode)
• Ugaritic and others
• SBL Fonts
• SIL Hebrew Unicode
• Gentium Plus
• Semiramis Unicode
• Jack Kilmon's Collection of Fonts