Babylonian Topographical Texts online (BTTo)

You are seeing an unstyled version of this site. If this is because you are using an older web browser, we recommend that you upgrade to a modern, standards-compliant browser such as FireFox [http://www.getfirefox.com/], which is available free of charge for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Babylonian Topographical Texts online (BTTo) currently includes fully searchable and richly annotated (lemmatized) editions of some of the most important texts published in the books A.R. George, Babylonian Topographical Texts (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 40; Leuven: Peeters, 1992) and A.R. George, House Most High: The Temples of Ancient Mesopotamia (Mesopotamian Civilizations 5; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1993): e.g., Tintir = Babylon [/btto/tintir] — the most important cuneiform source for the topography of Babylon, which lists and explains the sacred names of the city, its temples, and its other important topographical features and whose purpose was to glorify Babylon as Babylonia's pre-eminent religious center — and the Canonical Temple List [/btto/Q004807] — which lists over 600 temples and their divine owners and a composition known from three clay tablets discovered in the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (669-ca. 631 BC).

By the end of August 2022, this open-access site will include lemmatized editions (transliterations with English and German translations) of all sixty-four Babylonian topographical texts included in George BTT and all nine temple lists published in George HMH. These editions will be accompanied by webpages that will make information about these scholarly compositions easily and freely accessible to anyone interested in the topic.

BTTo is part of the three-year, LMU-Munich-based project Living Among Ruins: The Experience of Urban Abandonment in Babylonia [https://www.en.ag.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/research/livingamongruins/index.html], which is funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung [https://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de] as part of the program "Lost Cities. Wahrnehmung von und Leben mit verlassenen Städten in den Kulturen der Welt [https://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/lost_cities]," coordinated by Prof. Dr. Martin Zimmermann [https://www.en.ag.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/staff/staff/zimmermann_martin/index.html] (Historisches Seminar; LMU Munich), and Prof. Dr. Andreas Beyer [https://kunstgeschichte.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/andreas-beyer/] (University of Basel). BTTo is funded from September 2019 to August 2022.

For further details, see the "About the Project" page.

BTTo 2019-. BTTo is based at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Historisches Seminar (LMU Munich, History Department) - Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East. BTTo is part of the three-year project Living Among Ruins: The Experience of Urban Abandonment in Babylonia (September 2019 to August 2022), which is funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung as part of the program "Lost Cities. Wahrnehmung von und Leben mit verlassenen Städten in den Kulturen der Welt," coordinated by Martin Zimmermann and Andreas Beyer. Content released under a CC BY-SA 3.0 [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/] license, 2007-19.
Oracc uses cookies only to collect Google Analytics data. Read more here [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/doc/about/cookies/index.html]; see the stats here [http://www.seethestats.com/site/oracc.museum.upenn.edu]; opt out here.