Ur III Links

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	Oriental Institute Research Archives On-line The OI has made its catalog available to web users. It is probably the single most useful web-based ANE resource.
	Clark Collection of Ancient Art: Cuneiform Tablets This site consists of a single page including pictures and translations of 5 Ur III tablets, 1 Old Babylonian tablet, and 1 tablet which is illegible.
	Cuneiform clay tablets This site shows pictures of 2 Ur III tablets and translates one.
	Mesopotamian Year Names This site provides the set of Mesopotamian year formulae from the Old Akkadian through Old Babylonian periods, i.e., ca. 2350 - 1600 BCE. It includes all of the Ur III year formulae.
	Database of Ur III texts Here is a database of all the published Ur III texts. This is a link to the German mirror site. There is also a US site.
	Index of Sumerian Secondary Literature ISSL is a database of published transliterations of sumerian tablets of many different genres which can be searched at the graphemic level.
	Administrative texts from the Ur III period This site contains large numbers of transliterations of Ur III administrative texts from published sources.
	The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature The aim of this web site is to make accessible, via the World Wide Web, over 400 literary works composed in the Sumerian language in ancient Mesopotamia during the late third and early second millennia BC.
	L'aventure des écritures This site includes pictures of a foundation inscription and nail set up by Shulgi in the temple of Ninhursag at Susa.
	Foundation figurine of Ur-Nammu This figurine is from Nippur, and is displayed as part of the the Oriental Institute's virtual museum.
	G. Contenau, Umma sous la Dynastie d'Ur A digitized pioneering work in Ur III studies.
	SCHNEIDER, Nikolaus Brief biography of one of the pioneers of Ur III studies.