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money is paid in order to obtain wine for sacrifical purposes. 

 Among-st the witnesses two are of special interest, namely 

 Marduk-ibni, the '""""saku, that is the "beer-house keeper", 

 and Mutakkil-Ashur, the siin -{- gar, that is, the brewer. The 





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No. 13. Bas-relief of Nimrud (Calah) in the British Museum (after Lenor- 

 mant, Fr., Histoire ancienne de I'Orient). 



tablet reads: ''Seal of Zeruti, the chief winemaster, seal of 

 Ulula, the second (i. e., the assistant winemaster). Nine minas, 

 fifteen shekels of silver, according to the mina of Carchemish, 

 sacrificial offering of the god Ashur, belonging to Ashur- 

 reshu-ishi, at the disposition of Zeruti, the chief winemaster 



