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Page 137. In lines 17 and 18 the words "may he go forth 

 nameless, and may his reign be made (one of) subjection," 

 are as follows on the original : — >^{S */- J£^ >^| ^W >^<S _^[ 



Sff$f 4 ^1 I ^<V ^T -4 *& ¥ t*B JL*> mM nu-gal-la ga-mu- 

 na-ta-e, bal-e-na se-gar gi-gal, literally " name not-being, may 

 he it-from go-forth, reign-his subjection may it be." 



Page 143. (Tablet of the Rival Claimants.) It will be 

 remembered that, in the legal transaction recorded in the 

 book of Ruth, Boaz went to the gate of the city, and agreed 

 with his kinsman there, before the elders, concerning the 

 land which he afterwards redeemed, and the question of 

 wedding also Ruth the Moabitess. 



Page 144. It is not unlikely that the whole tablet refers to 

 the wedding-ceremony, but the text has too many and too 

 extensive gaps to enable this to be decided satisfactorily. 

 A translation of the whole will be found on pp. 159-161. 



Page 147. Further testimony to the famine in the 19th 

 year of Samas-sum-ukin or Saosduchinos occurs on tablet 

 83-1-18, 2597. We there learn that a man and his son sell 

 their female slave for so much money and so much corn. This 

 was in Tammnz — six months earlier than the date of the 

 tablet published. Another tablet, in the possession of Miss 

 Ripley (published by Dr. Budge in the Proceedings of the 

 Society of Biblical Archeeology for Jan., 1888), dated in the 

 eighteenth year of the same king, also makes reference to the 

 famine. The note at the end of this text reads : — " At this 

 time also want and famine are in the land, and mother to 

 daughter opens not the gate " {Ina umu-su-ma sunku u dan- 

 natu m ina mdti issakin-ma ummu ana mdrti id ipatti bdba). The 

 state of the country at the time was evidently most appalling. 



Pages 154, 157, and 159 (col. ii, 11. 1 and 2). A roughly- 

 written tablet, rather mutilated, apparently gives, as an 

 extract from this text, these two lines and some others 

 preceding them. The corresponding portion of this new 

 text (81-7-1, 207) is as follows :— 



V, ^ £T4T "Bf -II -c -Hf Hh m. 

 4* -// fiL< & < 



DUN DINGIR-nu-tug-ra GAB-im-ma-an-RI-es. 

 Ana idlu la-belu-ilfini 

 imtahharu. 



" To the man the impious are approaching." 



