CUNEIFORM TEXTS BRITISH MUSEUM. (50 Plates.) PRINTED BY ORDER 0 THE TRUSTEES. FROM IN THE SOLD AT THE BRITISH MUSEURI; I 900. [ALL RIGRE? KESEX VED.

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1 CUNEIFORM TEXTS FROM RBBPLONIAN TABLETS, &C., IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. PART IX. (50 Plates.) I PRINTED BY ORDER 0 THE TRUSTEES. SOLD AT THE BRITISH MUSEURI; ANL) AT LONGMANS tlr Co., 39, IiATEIZNOSTEK ROW; BERNAKD QUARITCII, 15, PICCADILLY ; ASHER Sr Co., 13, HEDYORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN; KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TICURNER S CO., I~ATEKNOSTISR HOUSIS, CI-IAI~ING CROSS ROAD; AND HENRY FROWDE, OXP'ORII UNIVEIZSITY T'IZESS, AMEN COl<NISI<, LONDON. I 900. [ALL RIGRE? KESEX VED.]

2 I.ONDON : I'RIN'I'BBS tiarrison AND SONS, IN 0RI)INARY TO IIER MAJESTY, SL.. MARTIN'> I.ANE

3 1 \I 1 art IX. of ' Cuneiforln l exts lii-ollr B_~bil~!uill~~l 'X avjct.,, &C., ::u~~~sinb texts from one stone tablet, four clay bricks or memorial tablets, one clay cylinder, and forty-three clay tablets. The inscriptions are as follows :- (I.) Four texts of Eannadu. king of Shirpurla (Lagash) about ]:.c. 4,500, recounting his name and titles, and those of his father, Alturgal. The texts enumerate the names of the countries and cities which owed him allegiance, and record the building by him of a temple to the god Ningirsu (Nos. 85,977, 85,978, 85,979, 85,980). (2.) Copy of a text of Dungi, king of Ur about 13.c. 2,500, recording the building of E-shid-lam, the temple of Nergal, it1 the city of Cuthah. The copy was made by B&-uballit, the scribe (No. 35,389). (3.) Copy of a text of Kurigalzu, lting of Dabylonia about l:.". 1,400, recording the building of a temple to the goddess Ninni, "the lady of the city of Agacle." The copy was made in the 8th year of Nabonidus, king of Baby1011 from B.C. 555 to I:.". 538 (No. 32,457). (4.) Text of a deed recording a grant of certain lands by Nebuchaclnezzar I, king of Babylonia about B.C. 1,120, to Shamb, and Shanlai his son, priests of the Elamite god, Eria, who had fled froill Elan1 into Babylonia (No. 92,987). (5.) Text from a cylinder of Ashur-bani-pal, lsing of Assyria from 13.c. 668 to 13.c. 626, recordiilg his name, titles, and genealogy, and commen~orating his restoration of the temple E-sagil, in Babylon, in honour of the god Marduk, during the reign of his brother, Shamash-shum-ukin, king of Babylon froill B.C. 668 to 13.c. 648 (No. 86,9 I 8). (6.) Two early Semitic Babyloniatl texts, undated, one of which is illustrated with geometrical figures (Nos. 85, I 94, 85,210). (7.) Thirty-nine texts fro111 balied clay tablets, inscribed with lists of revenues and tables of accounts concerning grain, sheep, cattle, &C., which were drawn up in the reigns of Bur-Sin and other lsings of Ur, who reigned before the subjugation of the cities of Babylonia by Khammurabi about 13.c. 2,200. Five are dated in the accession year of Bur-Sin (Nos. 13,134, , 19,055, 21,396, 21,397) ; two are dated in the year following Bur-Sin's accession (Nos. 19,054, 19,769) ; and one is dated in the year in which Bur-Sin destroyed Urbillu (No. 2 I,387). In twenty-two tablets the name of the reigning king is not mentioned, but the texts are dated by great event:;, such as the capture or building of a city, the erection of a temple, &c. Thus, one is dated in the year in which the city of Kharshi was destroyed (No. 2 I, 144) ; three are dated in the year

4 19,779, 20,007) ; one is dated in the year in which the city of Kilnash was destroyed (No. 21,348) ; four are dated in the year which followed the destruction of the city of Kimash (Nos. 14,318, 1g,o3 I, , 2 1,245) ; one is dated in the two years which followed that event (No. 18,425) ; and two in the year in which the cities of Simuru and Lulubll were destroyed for the ninth time (Nos. 19,050, 2 1,250). One tablet is dated in the year which followed the building of Dur-mati (No. 2 r, 146) ; one is dated in the year in which ;L temple was built for the god Dagan (No. 18,437) ; and four in the years which followed that event (Nos. I 3,657, 18,367. I 9,75 I, 21,137) ; two are dated in the year in which the throne of the god Enlil (Bel) was made (Nos. 14,617, I g, 100) ; and two are dated in the years in which certain deities were installed in their shrines (Nos, I 2.91 g, 19,036)- The remaining nine tablets (Nos. I 7,748, I 9,068, ao,or I, 20,012, 20,o~ 20,018, 2 1,25 I, 2 1,386, 2 I,399) are undated, but were probably inscribed during the reigns of Bur-Sin and other ltings of Ur, before R.C. 2,200. The copies have been made by Mr. L. W. King, M.A., Assistant in the Department. 5, E. A. WALLIS BUDGE. DEPART MEN.^ OF. EGYPTIAN.&NU ASSYRIAN AN'TIOUITIES, EKITISH MUSEUM.

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CUNEIFORM TEXTS FROM UABYLONIAN TABLETS, &C., IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. DIRECTOR'S LIBRBRY ORIENTAL INSTITUTE IJNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PART XV. (50 Plates.) PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES. soln AT THE BRITISH