Pi Day of the Century 3/14/15 @ 9:26

March 14 is known among math geeks as Pi day (3.14). This year's pi day has special significance because it is the year 2015. So, at 9:26, the first seven significant digits of pi are represented in the time/date stamp: 3.1415926

But why should the math geeks have all the fun? Assyriologists, unite! Celebrate pi day the way it was meant to be celebrated. Not with some irrational number, but with winkelhakens, a vertical stroke and a horizontal stroke.

Cuneiform Commentaries Project

Mesopotamian commentaries represent the world’s oldest cohesive group of hermeneutic texts. Numbering nearly 900, the earliest date to the eighth century and the latest to ca. 100 BCE. The purpose of this website is to make the corpus available both to the scholarly community and a more general audience by providing background information on the genre, a searchable catalog, as well as photos, drawings, annotated editions, and translations of individual commentary tablets. For the first time the cuneiform commentaries, currently scattered over 21 museums around the globe, will be accessible on one platform.

RINAP 3/2

RINAP is pleased to announce the presence of Part 2 of a fully searchable and lemmatized online corpus of the royal inscriptions of Sennacherib based on the volume "The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704-681 BC), Part 2" (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period volume 3/2), texts edited by A. Kirk Grayson and Jamie Novotny.