CUNEIFORM
4,000 Years of Human Writing - Decoded
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Cuneiform Sign Chart
2,093 signs from the Sumerian and Akkadian writing systems
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Tablet Library
Browse 93,421 cuneiform tablets from 33 corpora
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Word Concordance
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Sign Chart
Browse all 2,093 cuneiform signs with readings and classifications
Word Search
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Concordance
Trace any word across 4,000 years of texts with period distribution
Tablet Library
Browse 102,511 tablets by period, genre, and keyword
Sumerian Grammar
Agglutinative language: noun + case suffix. SOV word order. Ergative alignment.
Writing System
Logographic + syllabic. Reed stylus on wet clay. 2,093 signs encode Sumerian and Akkadian.
About This Collection
This corpus contains transliterations from the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC), spanning from the Early Dynastic period (~2900 BCE) through the Neo-Babylonian period (~539 BCE). Every tablet has been indexed, every word lemmatized, every sign catalogued. The concordance traces word usage across 4,000 years of human civilization -- the longest continuous writing tradition in history.
Data: ORACC (CC BY-SA 3.0) | Platform: Ozark Oracle | Copyright 2026 Tammy L Casey