Yale Babylonian Collection
![Cuneiform text containing culinary recipes dating to the Old Babylonian period (c. 1900–1600 BCE), YBC 4644, obverse](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/YBC04644_o_KW.jpg)
Established by the donation of a collection of cuneiform tablets by J. P. Morgan in 1909, the Collection is now home to one of the largest collections of ancient Near Eastern writing in America and ranks among the best repositories of its kind in the world. Beyond the ongoing study and conservation of its own holdings, the Yale Babylonian Collection stands as an important center for innovative research in Assyriology and other related fields. Since 2019 all cuneiform artifacts as well as cylinder and stamp seals are being digitized. These digital assets will be freely available in a number of online repositories.
The collection contains over 1,300 private and official letters that span several different time periods in Babylonian history. Several of these letters were still sealed in their clay envelopes to only be opened and read for the first time when they entered the collection.
The collection is open on weekdays by appointment.
Among the highlights of the collection are several tablets dating to the first half of the second millennium BCE, which contain culinary recipes.
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7Published 1985“...Yale Babylonian Collection...”
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11Published 1917“...Yale Babylonian Collection...”
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12by Sigrist, Marcel“...Yale Babylonian Collection...”
Published 2009
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14by Sigrist, Marcel“...Yale Babylonian Collection...”
Published 2009
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16by Buchanan, Briggs“...Yale Babylonian Collection...”
Published 1979
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19by Simmons, Stephen D, Simmons, Stephen D, Simmons, Stephen D, Kingsbury, Edwin C., Kingsbury, Edwin C.“...Yale Babylonian Collection...”
Published 1978
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