http://oracc.museum.upenn.

edu/oimea/

The LMU Munich- and Humboldt Foundation-funded Official Inscriptions of the

Middle East in Antiquity (OIMEA) is presently an umbrella project that is
intended to facilitate quick and easy access to a wide range of open-access editions
of ancient Middle Eastern texts, all of which at this time are hosted on the Open
Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (Oracc) platform. Some projects (see below)
are directly or indirectly managed by members of the chair of the Alexander von
Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East of Ludwig-
Maximilians-Universität München (Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte
Geschichte), Karen Radner -- in particular Alexa Bartelmus, Birgit Christiansen,
and Jamie Novotny -- while others are not and these are included here under
a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.

As is obvious from the project's name, the scope of OIMEA is official inscriptions:

• Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions online (ARIo; Ludwig-Maximilians-

Universität München)
• Corpus of Kassite Sumerian Texts (CKST; University of California Berkeley)
• Electronic Corpus of Urartian Texts (eCUT; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München)
• Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions (ETCSRI; Eötvös
Loránd University Budapest)
• The Inscriptions of Suhu online (Suhu; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
München)
• The Royal Inscriptions of Assyria online (RIAo; Ludwig-Maximilians-
Universität München)
• The Royal Inscriptions of Babylonia online (RIBo; Ludwig-Maximilians-
Universität München)
• The Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period online (RINAPo;
University of Pennsylvania [now in collaboration with Ludwig-Maximilians-
Universität München])
In time, OIMEA will include corpora of texts written in other languages, including
Aramaic, Phoenician, and Luwian. Moreover, the OIMEA team also intends to make
the site a powerful multi-project search engine that will enable anyone interested
in official inscriptions to simultaneously search the translations, transliterations,
catalogues, and portal pages of every available project on which official inscriptions
of the Middle East in Antiquity are edited. As an informational and search hub, the
project strives to make the vast and varied corpus of inscriptions easily and freely
accessible to every scholar, student, and member of the general public, and, in
the near future, to enable our users the ability to effectively and efficiently search
that rich genre of ancient records.

To access the annotated editions, click on the links above or in the main
menu. NOTE that by clicking on the project links in the main menu you will leave
the OIMEA project and your browser will load the selected site's home page.
However, if you click on the links embedded in the text above, your browser will
open the selected project's home page in a new tab; the OIMEA home page will
continue to be accessible in the tab labelled "Official Inscriptions of the Middle East
in Antiquity."