NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 



King of Babylon. 



On Recently-discovered Inscriptions of 

 this King. 



BY 



ERNEST A. BUDGE, B.A. 



rlHE excavations carried on in Mesopotamia during the last 

 _I_ few years have been productive of especially good 

 results. Not only has Assyrian grammar and lexicography 

 been enriched by magnificent " finds " of bilingual and 

 grammatical tablets, but a considerable quantity of history 

 has been made known to us through the discovery of cylinders 

 which were inscribed during the latter years of the Babylonian 

 Empire. They are peculiarly valuable, because they are the 

 productions of those who lived at the time when the events 

 happened which they record. Moreover, by means of the 

 numerous contract and loan tablets which are in the collection 

 of our National Museum, a keener insight has been afforded 

 us of the commercial and other affairs of the Babylonian and 



