# The Kuyunjik collection fragments (British Museum K., Sm., Rm. and DT numbers)

> Tens of thousands of tablets and fragments from the libraries of Nineveh (Kuyunjik), excavated between 1849 and the 1930s and the core of…

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# The Kuyunjik collection fragments (British Museum K., Sm., Rm. and DT numbers)

DocumenteBL / LMU Munich; photographs copyright the Trustees of the British Museum; access to some fragments restrictedNeo-Assyrian, 7th century BC, with later Babylonian material in the same collections

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Tens of thousands of tablets and fragments from the libraries of Nineveh (Kuyunjik), excavated between 1849 and the 1930s and the core of first-millennium Akkadian literature and scholarship. Most are broken, and the eBL Fragmentarium's photography and matching campaign since 2018 is directed chiefly at joining them; the 2024 Maqlû test found three unidentified manuscripts among them (K.18050, Sm.1215, Sm.1852).

electronic Babylonian Library, LMU Munich. eBL / LMU Munich; photographs copyright the Trustees of the British Museum; access to some fragments restricted

## Copies 1

**Ebl fragmentarium (database)** electronic Babylonian Library, LMU Munich · ebl.lmu.de · eBL / LMU Munich; photographs copyright the Trustees of the British Museum; access to some fragments restrictedPrimary source: [Reconstruction of Cuneiform Literary Texts as Text Matching](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGT58C4F7/reconstruction-of-cuneiform-literary-texts-as-text-matching)1 step from the original

[Where it's published](https://www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentarium)

## Where it is kept

[British Museum, London](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/unread-cuneiform/places/PLC0DEDN19B9HCV/british-museum-london) · Museum

## Sources 3

- [AI is helping us read ancient Mesopotamian literature](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGTTRNMP2/ai-is-helping-us-read-ancient-mesopotamian-literature)_SRC_
- [Electronic Babylonian Literature: playing with the source of world literature](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGS748FDC/electronic-babylonian-literature-playing-with-the-source-of)_SRC_
- [Reconstruction of Cuneiform Literary Texts as Text Matching](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDGT58C4F7/reconstruction-of-cuneiform-literary-texts-as-text-matching)_SRC_

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Neo-Assyrian, 7th century BC, with later Babylonian material in the same collections

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