RECENT DISCOVERIES IN THE EEALM OF ASSYRIOLOGY, ETC. 171 



occurs in W.A.I. IV, pi. 1, col. ii, 11. 56—63. This is in 

 Akkadian only, and has furnished the material for the 

 restoration of the present text. 



The words " To heaven departing," etc., seem to mean, 

 " Dost thou think to reach heaven without wings ? to 

 remain on earth without a resting-place? Purity thyself, 

 then, with fasting, that, being a son of thy god (i.e., a pious 

 man) thou mayest attain thy desire." 



We must wait patiently for the East to yield up its 

 treasures, to enable us to complete this mutilated, but 

 interesting and important text. 



Page 163 (Loan-tablet, 1. 19). The characters sakin-ma, 

 at the end are restored by comparison with the other 

 British Museum text referring to this famine, mentioned on 

 p. 169. Miss Ripley's tablet gives issakin-ma, which is also a 

 probable restoration. 



The Chairman (H. Cadman Jones, Esq., M.A.) — I am sure I may 

 return the thanks of the meeting to Mr. Pinches for his exceed- 

 ingly interesting Paper. It is now open for those present to take 

 part in the discussion. 



Mr. W. St. C. Boscawen, F.B.Hist. Soc— I think this is one of 

 the most important Papers that I have seen for many years, and 

 one which has long been wanted, and as Mr. Pinches has devoted 

 so much study to the Akkadian every word of his comes with 

 a special force. I have worked at the same study to some 

 extent ; and I must say the conclusions that I have come to are, 

 almost in every case, the same as his. The importance of 

 the monuments which he has described is very great, not only 

 on account of the inscriptions on them, but also by reason of their 

 value from an archaeological point of view. The fact that the 

 stone used for these monuments is not to be found anywhere in 

 the neighbourhood of Babylonia, but, as was pointed out at a 

 recent meeting held here, evidently came from the Sinaitic 

 Peninsula, is extremely important, because it has a bearing on 

 the connection between Egypt and Chaldea. At a time when the 

 sixth dynasty were relinquishing the quarries and mines, their 

 place would appear to have been taken by traders from Babylonia. 

 I have lately received from Paris a small chip of the porphyry 

 used in these Babylonian monuments, which I had always been 

 inclined to think were not from the quarries worked in Soman 







