A Sumerian Literary Catalogue in Babylon?

Abstract This paper presents an Old Babylonian tablet containing a compilation of conventional phrases and lines concerning the moon-god Nanna, some of which represent the incipits of certain literary compositions. The tablet was originally discovered in Babylon during the German excavations conducted between 1899 and 1917. After the abrupt end of the excavations, the tablet was lost but later resurfaced in a modified form; its shortened text was published and edited multiple times. This paper presents the first edition of the tablet, combining the text as it was originally discovered with its current form, based on an excavation photo taken in 1908 and modern photographs of its truncated form.