The present double volume of the “Catalogue of the Babylonian Tablets” presents all tablets from Babylonia excavated, purchased or donated between 1821 and 1881. Cataloguing of these collections began in 1894-5 when T. G. Pinches prepared a slip catalogue of the first part of the second Spartali collection. The work was continued by Abe Sachs, Donald Wiseman, Irving Finkel and Christopher Walker, supplemented by contributions of several other scholars. Several thousands of cuneiform Tablets now in the British Museum are catalogued providing up-to-date information about their provenance, content and their history of publication: Akkadian as well as Sumerian texts -- administrative and legal texts, as well as letters, royal inscriptions, epics, incantations, omens and other literary texts.

Introduction     

    Registration and numbering

    Joins and probable joins              

    Chronology       

    Personal and place names          

    Series names    

    Tablet shapes and direction of script     

    Copying problems          

    Index of collections        

Collections        

    1821,0120 collection     

    1825,0503 collection     

    1841,0726 collection     

    1842,0728 collection     

    1848,1104 collection     

    N collection       

    1849,0623 collection     

    1851,0101 collection     

    1851,1009 collection     

    1856,0903 collection     

    1856,0908 collection     

    1856,1110 collection     

    1859,1014 collection     

    1862,0716 collection     

    1868,0709 collection     

    1869,1006 collection     

    Old collecitons

    K collection       

    1871,0311 collection     

    1873,0319 collection     

    1875,0609 collection     

    1876,0102 collection     

    1876,0110 collection     

    1876,0515 collection     

    1876,1016 collection     

    DT collection     

    Sm collection    

    1876 collection

    1877,0222 collection     

    1877,0409 collection     

    1877,0417 collection     

    1877,1002 collection     

    1877,1114 collection     

    1877,1115 collection     

    1877,1116 collection     

    1877,1129 collection     

    1878,0531 collection     

    1878,0730 collection     

    1878,0828 collection     

    1878,0902 collection     

    1878,1015 collection     

    1878,1023 collection     

    1878,1028 collection     

    1878,1107 collection     

    1878,1120 collection     

    1878,1130 collection     

    1878,1218 collection     

    1879,0201 collection     

    1879,0301 collection     

    1879,0322 collection     

    1879,0419 collection     

    1879,0430 collection     

    1879,0606 collection     

    1879,0730 collection     

    1879,1108 collection     

    1879,1210 collection     

    B collection       

    Rm collection   

    Rm-II collection

    Rm-III collection              

    Rm-IV collection              

    Sp collection     

    Sp-II collection 

    Sp-III collection

    1880,0126 collection     

    1880,0130 collection     

    1880,0617 collection     

    1880,1012 collection     

    1880,1112 collection     

    1881,0201 collection     

    1881,0324 collection     

    1881,0428 collection     

    1881,0625 collection     

    1881,0701 collection     

    1881,0706 collection     

    1881,0728 collection     

    1881,0830 collection     

    1881,1008 collection     

    1881,1103 collection     

    Later collections              

    1958,0412 collection     

Bibliography and abbreviations