De Liagre Böhl collection

NINO is the owner of approximately 3000 cuneiform tablets of Sumerian and Babylonian/Assyrian origin. This extremely valuable collection was brought together in the 1920s and ‘30s by F.M.Th. de Liagre Böhl, professor of Assyriology at Leiden University. Diverse text genres are present in the tablet collection: literary, omina, incantations, archival etc. In addition to the tablets, the collection includes a smaller number of seals, bullae, terracottas and other objects. The tablets are being transcribed, translated, and published in order to make them available for scholars and students. The series TLB and SLB are publications of tablets in the collection. More unpublished information on the collection is kept in the Institute. A selection of the tablets is on display in the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) in Leiden.