Open Access Journal: Cuneiform Digital Library Journal

The Cuneiform Digital Library Journal is an electronic journal constituted in conjunction with the organization and work of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative to afford contributors to that effort the opportunity to make known to an international community the results of their research into topics related to those of the CDLI. 

The CDLJ is a refereed e-journal for Assyriology. We are interested in publishing a broad and international range of cuneiform research articles that will appeal to academic researchers as well as interested members of the public.

Contributions dealing with the major themes of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, that is, with text analyses of 4th and 3rd millennium documents (incorporating text, photographs, data, drawings, interpretations), early language, writing, paleography, administrative history, mathematics, metrology, and the technology of modern cuneiform editing are welcome. Articles in the Cuneiform Digital Library Journal are chosen for their quality academic content and for their use of the electronic medium.

The editorial board of the Cuneiform Digital Library Journal consists of representatives from leading universities, research institutions and museums around the world, including the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, the CNRS, Paris, the CSIS, Madrid, the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Michigan, Cornell University, UC Berkeley and UCLA. The Journal is hosted by the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, LA/Berlin, and is managed by Robert K. Englund, and maintained by Madeleine Fitzgerald. Without the guidance and support of a number of other people, it is unlikely that the journal would be in its present form. We should mention particularly Judith Winters, chief editor of Internet Archaeology, for her kind permission allowing us to "lift" from her site many of the policy and guideline statements now a part of these pages.

No.	Author	Title	Date
2002:1	Englund, R. K.	The Ur III Collection of the CMAA (PDF)	2002/09/11
2002:2	Widell, M.	A Previously Unpublished Lawsuit from Ur III Adab (PDF)	2002/09/27
2003:1	Englund, R. K.	The Year: "Nissen returns joyous from a distant island" (PDF)	2003/02/15
2003:2	Widell, M.	The Ur III calendar(s) of Tūram-ilī (PDF)	2003/02/20
2003:3	Michalowski, P.	An Early Dynastic Tablet of ED Lu A from Tell Brak (Nagar) (PDF)	2003/03/05
2003:4	Hilgert, M.	New Perspectives in the Study of Third Millennium Akkadian (PDF)	2003/08/26
2003:5	Chambon, G.	Archaic Metrological Systems from Ur (PDF)	2003/12/23
2004:1	Heimpel, W.	AO 7667 and the Meaning of ba-an-gi4 (PDF)	2004/01/12
2004:2	Widell, M.	The Calendar of Neo-Sumerian Ur and Its Political Significance (PDF)	2004/07/14
2005:1	Monaco, S.	Unusual Accounting Practices in Archaic Mesopotamian Tablets (PDF)	2005/05/01
2005:2	Friberg, J.	On the Alleged Counting with Sexagesimal Place Value Numbers in Mathematical Cuneiform Texts from the Third Millennium B.C. (PDF)	2005/06/14
2005:3	Dahl, J.	Complex Graphemes in Proto-Elamite (PDF)	2005/06/19
2006:1	Damerow, P.	The Origins of Writing as a Problem of Historical Epistemology (PDF)	2006/01/28
2006:2	Johnson, J. C.	The Ur III Tablets in the Valdosta State University Archives (PDF)	2006/04/24
2006:3	Richardson, S. F. C.	gir3-gen-na and Šulgi’s “Library”: Liver Omen Texts in the Third Millennium BC (I) (PDF)	2006/08/06
2007:1	Seri, A.	The Mesopotamian Collection in the Kalamazoo Valley Museum (PDF)	2007/08/25
2008:1	Adams, R. McC.	An Interdisciplinary Overview of a Mesopotamian City and its Hinterlands (PDF)	2008/03/25
2008:2	Hilgert, M.	Cuneiform Texts in the Collection of St. Martin Archabbey Beuron (PDF)	2008/07/07
2009:1	Proust, C.	Numerical and Metrological Graphemes: From Cuneiform to Transliteration (PDF)	2009/06/22
2009:2	Robson, E. & Clark, K.	The Cuneiform Tablet Collection of Florida State University (PDF)	2009/07/19
2009:3	Friberg, J.	A Geometric Algorithm with Solutions to Quadratic Equations in a Sumerian Juridical Document from Ur III Umma (PDF)	2009/09/23
2009:4	Englund, R. K.	The Smell of the Cage (PDF)	2009/08/21
2009:5	Lafont, B.	The Army of the Kings of Ur: The Textual Evidence (PDF)	2009/10/21
2009:6	Widell, M.	Two Ur III Texts from Umma: Observations on Archival Practices and Household Management (PDF)	2009/10/24
2009:7	Adams, R. McC.	Old Babylonian Networks of Urban Notables (PDF)	2009/10/26
2010:1	Ragavan, D.	Cuneiform Texts and Fragments in the Harvard Art Museum / Arthur M. Sackler Museum (PDF)	2010/07/06
2010:2	Adams, R. McC.	Slavery and Freedom in the Third Dynasty of Ur: Implications of the Garshana Archives (PDF)	2010/07/06
2011:1	Cathcart, K. J.	The Earliest Contributions to the Decipherment of Sumerian and Akkadian (PDF)	2011/03/03
2011:2	Firth, R.	A Discussion of the Use of im-babbar2by the Craft Workers of Ancient Mesopotamia (PDF)	2011/10/30
2012:1	Ouyang, X. & Brookman, W. R.	The Cuneiform Collection of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts (PDF)	2012/02/20
2012:2	Damerow, P.	Sumerian Beer: The Origins of Brewing Technology in Ancient Mesopotamia (PDF)	2012/01/22
2013:1	Firth, R.	Notes on Year Names of the Early Ur III Period: Šulgi 20-30 (PDF)	2013/03/18