Yale Babylonian Collection
The Yale Babylonian Collection (sometimes just Babylonian Collection ) is a comprehensive collection of cuneiform tablets kept at Yale University . The Babylonian Collection comprises around 45,000 categorized objects; among other things artifacts, seals, administrative documents and oment texts from the period between 3000 BC. And the early Christian period.
It was founded in 1909 by a foundation by John Pierpont Morgan .
Classifications
The Babylonian Collection's cuneiform collections are divided into six groups:
- GCC: Goucher College Collection, founded by Raymond Dougherty
- MLC: Morgan Library Collection, formerly in the Morgan Library in New York
- NBC: Nies Babylonian Collection, founded by James B. Nies
- NCBS / NCBT: Newell Collection of Babylonian Seals and Newell Collection of Babylonian Tablets
- RBC: Rosen Babylonian Collection, founded by Jonathan P. Rosen
- YBC: Yale Babylonian Collection, founded in 1909 by Albert T. Clay
Fonts
The published texts have appeared in seven series:
- BIN: Babylonian Inscriptions in the Collection of James B. Nies
- BRM: Babylonian Records in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan
- GCCI: Goucher College Cuneiform Inscriptions
- TBC: Texts from the Babylonian Collection
- YNER: Yale Near Eastern Researches
- YOS / YOSBT: Yale Oriental Series
- YOSR: Yale Oriental Series, Researches
Web links
Commons : Yale Babylonian Collection - collection of images, videos, and audio files
