This pdf was made from the ECHO digitalization of The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia. I hope to get the rest done at a later time, and re-do the messed up parts of this one. I'm not totally sure, but it seems like a very famous, and one of the first, corpora of cuneiform inscriptions. Although Volumes 1-5 are online only at ECHO, there are no pdf versions of any of them. It seems apparent that this book (folio?) was owned by E A Wallis Budge and that he left it to The British Museum, also the publisher, whom ECHO got to digitize this. WOW. You can see his stamp inside the cover and his handwriting, and maybe others', throughout, judging by the match between Budge's books and what he wrote on. This is truely a treasure, and every bit of it was digitized, including loose notes, except some of the material near the spine, which was missed sometimes. Rawlinson, the editor, was just some guy who defied the academics of his day and deciphered almost all cuneiform languages. He's the Champollion of Cuneiform, but because Egyptian is beautiful and Cuneiform is ugly, nobody knows of Rawlinson's more adventurous and interesting life. I'm amazed that no one has taken the time to make a pdf of ECHO's online version. I guess the people who care have access to a library, or perhaps it has been eclipsed by some improved version, though it still comes up in modern bibliographies. Another major corpus, "Inscriptions in the Cuneiform Characters" by Layard, is online in pdf form. Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke [ed.], The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, vol. 1-3, 1861/1866 Works included: Vol. I: A Selection from the historical Inscriptions of Chaldeaa, Assyria, et Babylonia - from ECHO page I wish these guys would've bothered to include interlinear translations, like they almost did with The Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions c 2000. They had nothing but time back then, as Budge himself personified. Cuneiform is cumbersome to work with. Apparently printing a beast like this was totally like really expensive back in ye olde day. Now a days, if the Europeans would figure out how computers work, you can download it online in 10 seconds with a good connection, then make a machine-readable table of contents in Excel in a half hour. These guys probably did some sort of photocopy for each page; but whenever Cuneiform appeared, they must have had to get some bewildered printer to cast each glyph seperately - now a days, I have a $300 laptop and use free online software to make my own fonts, and it takes me a few hours and costs me pennys in electricity. I have my own expensive printer but if I had enough to print, I can bop on down to Staples and have them run it off in a half hour for not so much. Life just sucked back then, in some unimportant, superficial ways, like dentistry. It's no wonder I can study all the languages of the world at once. That no one else does means everyone's stuck in the past. Their loss. Uploading stuff takes forever. The real key to working with languages is finding good transliterations and translations. In their absense, machine-searchable lists of words gets you only so far. Scholarship is retarded today by people learning the languages in question, but it speeds up the process, at least in these hard times before everything gets interlinearly translated in the future. Cuneiform requires shape-based sign lists. If I had the time, I'd make rough interlinear translations of books like Layard's ICC and this CIWA, but it's really work for a specialist, none of whom have much of a clue what actually needs to be done, wasting theirs skills on careerism and minutiae that opens up the existing and published texts extremely little. But that's why Rawlinson was not some stuffy professor, nor was the Linear B guy. I ended up having to split it in 12. I also want to put it on Scribd. Itâs been taking 12 hours to get everything straight and uploaded and everything, though this connection here is a bit slow.