Graeco-Babyloniaca
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The Graeco-Babyloniaca (singular: Graeco-Babyloniacum[1]) are clay tablets written in the Sumerian or Akkadian languages using cuneiform on one side with transliterations in the Greek alphabet on the other.
Quoting Edmond Sollberger:
They are obviously school texts written by some Greek student, or students, of Sumerian or Akkadian some time during the late second or early first centuries B.C.[2]
As worded by M. J. Geller, they indicate that both Babylonian languages "written in cuneiform characters were still legible in the Seleucid and Parthian periods in Mesopotamia".[3]