On Three Tablet Inventories

Cuneiform catalogues such as those edited in the following pages of this work, which list the incipits or first lines of textual works, provide the Assyriologist with uniquely revealing information. Their content can reflect three primary categories: series, where the component parts are given of a given structure, numbered and in order; genre, where known texts to deal with a specific problem are marshalled together, or contents, that itemise tablets from a specific tablet library. Three additional sources edited here represent a different phenomenon. Each likewise contains only an incipit list, but the nature and sequence in which the material is present recommends that they should rather be classified as tablet inventories.