The range of documents written in Akkadian

[oroniel]

J. N. Postgate (ed.), Languages of Iraq Ancient and Modern. London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 2007

Archival documents
- Administrative lists and inventories
- Receipts
- Disbursements
- Accounts
- Business letters and memoranda
- Private letters

Legal documents
- Contracts, title deeds and wills
- Juridical documents
- Collections of laws

Royal documents
- Building inscriptions
- Royal annals
- Royal grants and decrees
- Treaties and diplomatic correspondence

Chronological and related texts
- Date lists, king lists, eponym lists
- Chronicles
- Other historiographic documents

Commemorative and monumental inscriptions
- Votive inscriptions
- Funerary inscriptions

Liturgical and religious texts
- Cult songs, hymns and laments
- Temple rituals
- Prayers

Divination literature
- Omen compendia
- Rituals, oracle questions and reports
- Liver models

Astrological and astronomical literature
- Omen compendia
- Astrological reports
- Astronomical diaries
- Astronomical tables and almanacs

Exorcists’ lore
- Apotropaic and prophylactic rituals
- Charms, spells and incantations
- Prognostic and diagnostic omens
- Medical recipes and compendia
- Calendrical omens, hemerologies and almanacs

Mathematics and surveying
- Mathematical problem texts
- Numerical tables
- Maps and plans

Craft-related texts
- Technical manuals
- Horse-training texts

Pedagogical texts
- Sign lists
- Vocabularies
- Encyclopedic lists
- Glossaries
- Grammatical tables
- Commentaries on other scholia
- Scribal exercises

Belles lettres
- Mythological, epic and narrative poetry
- Literary hymns and devotional poetry
- Lyric and other poetry
- Didactic poetry and prose
- Wisdom literature

Folk literature
- Proverbs and fables
- Folk tales