There was also a standard work on medicine, in which medical prescriptions and spells were mixed together.

Philological treatises were numerous.

There were dictionaries and grammars for explaining the Sumerian language to Semitic pupils, interlinear translations of Sumerian texts, phrase-books, lists of synonyms, and commentaries on difficult or obsolete words and passages, besides syllabaries, in which the cuneiform characters were catalogued and explained.

Mathematics were diligently studied, and tables of squares and cubes have come to us from the library of Larsa.

Geography was represented by descriptions of the countries and cities known to the Babylonians, natural history by lists of animals and birds, insects and plants.