I. Egyptian | II. Hebrew and Aramaic | III. Hittite | IV. Sumerian and Akkadian | V. Ugaritic VI. Reference

• Local Non-Networked Resources
  • The PHI (Packard Humanities Institute) CD-ROM #6, including Greek inscriptions and papyri and Coptic texts, is available at a CD-ROM workstation in the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, Classics Building 25D and at The Oriental Institute Research Archives. This information is also available online through Perseus, in the Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri.
  • D. van der Plas' Coffin Texts Word Index Call number: PJ1111.C644 1998 4th Floor Digital Media Collection
• Remotely Available Resources
  • Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri (Perseus Project)
  • Duke Papyrus Archive Home Page (Duke University)
    Search the Duke Papyrus Archive
  • Middle Egyptian Web Site
  • Trismegistos: An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources dealing with Egypt and the Nile valley between roughly 800 BC and AD 800

II. Hebrew and Aramaic Texts

• Local Non-Networked Resources
  • BibleWorks 5 is available from the Hebrew CD-ROM workstation in Regenstein Library on the fourth floor.
  • The Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Reference Library. Call number: BM487.D29 1997. The CD-ROM is available from Regenstein Reserve. You may charge out the CD and bring it to the workstation in Regenstein Library on the fourth floor. Insert the CD in the bottom drive and click on the appropriate icon.
  • Global Jewish Database created by the Hebrew Responsa Project at Bar-Ilan University is available from the Hebrew CD-ROM workstation in Regenstin Library on the fourth floor. A helpsheet is available.
  • The Judaic Classics Library, Deluxe Edition. (Davka) Call number: BM495.C4 1995. The CD-ROM is available from Regenstein Reserve. You may charge out the CD and bring it to the workstation in Regenstein Library on the fourth floor. Insert the CD in the bottom drive and click on the appropriate icon. An earlier edition is also available at The Oriental Institute Research Archives.
  • The Soncino Classics Collection. (Davka) Call number: BM495.S63 1996. The CD-ROM is available from Regenstein Reserve. You may charge out the CD and bring it to the workstation in Regenstein Library on the fourth floor. Insert the CD in the bottom drive and click on the appropriate icon.
• Remotely Available Resources
  • CCAT's Biblical Texts (University of Pennsylvania)
  • The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
  • HebrewBooks.org
  • Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database
  • The West Semitic Research Project (University of Southern California)

III. Hittite Texts

• Remotely Available Resources
  • Bogazkoey-Texte in Umschrift - Computerversion by J. Tischler
  • Hatti - Association des Amis de la Civilisation hittite
  • The Hittite Home Page - Billie Jean Collins

IV. Sumerian and Akkadian Texts

• Local Non-Networked Resources
  • Sumer, Professor Civil's Hypertext Corpus of Sumerian Texts, is available at The Oriental Institute Research Archives.
• Remotely Available Resources
  • Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
  • The Cuneiform Inscriptions of the University of Minnesota
  • Database: Proto-Cuneiform Texts From Archaic Babylonia
  • Datenbank: Keilschrifttexte des dritten Jahrtausends v. Chr. im vorderasiatischen Museum, Berlin
  • The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
  • E-TACT (Electronic Translations of Akkadian Cuneiform Texts)
  • The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project
  • Sumerian Language Page
  • The Sumerian Lexical Archive

V. Ugaritic Texts

• Remotely Available Resources
  • The Edinburgh Ras Shamra Project

VI. Reference

• The Afroasiatic Index Project
• Arabic-English Lexicon, Edward William Lane
• The Beinlich wordlist
• Catalog of Hittite Texts (CTH)
• The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
• The Chicago Demotic Dictionary Online
• The Chicago Hittite Dictionary
• The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon
• A Coptic Dictionary, W. E. Crum
• Daremberg-Saglio, Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines
• The Demotic Verbal System, Janet H. Johnson
• Encyclopaedia Iranica
• Encyclopaedia of Islam [Via UofC Proxy]) Click "log in" to begin searching. (UofC-Access Only).
• Index to Sumerian Secondary Literature, Steve Tinney
• An Introductory Coptic Grammar, J. Martin Plumley
• J. A. Halloran's Lexicon of Sumerian Logograms
• New Pauly Online [Via UofC Proxy]) Click on "Logon to New Pauly" (UofC-Access Only)
• Sign Glossary of the Proto-Cuneiform Texts
• The Sumerian Lexicon Project
• Thus Wrote 'Onchsheshonqy - An Introductory Grammar of Demotic (Third Edition), Janet H. Johnson
• Who's Who in Ancient Egypt, Routledge [Via UofC Proxy] from xrefplus (UofC-Access Only)
• Who's Who in the Old Testament, Routledge [Via UofC Proxy] from xreferplus (UofC-Access Only)

See also the Library's Subject Guide to the Ancient Near East