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Plate. Text. Date. 



13 21 Bur-Sin II. 



13 22 Bur-Sin II. 



14 23-25 Gande. 



15 26 c. 2250 B.C. 

 15 27 Hammurabi. 



15 28 Cassite Dyn. 



15 29 Cassite Dyn. 



15 30 Cassite Dyn. 



15 31 Cassite Dyn. 



15 32 Cassite Dyn. 



16 33 Burna-Buriash. 



17 33 Burna-Buriash. 



18 34 Burna-Buriash. 



18 35 Kurigalzu. 



18 36 Kurigalzu. 



19 37 Kurigalzu. 



Description. 

 Door socket in diorite, 33 X 28 X 23. Nippur III, same place as PI. 11, 

 No. 19. Inscr. around the hole, 23.5 X 5.35, 17 li. Sq. On the 

 bottom at the edge is the same inscr. as PI. 14,Nos. 23-25 (cf. also 

 PI. 1, No. 1). 

 Brick of baked clay, light brown, very soft, covered with bitumen, 30 

 X 30 X 6.5. Nippur III, same place as PI. 11, No. 19. Inscr. 

 (written) 5.97 X 5.3, 2 li. Sq. The inscription is generally re- 

 peated three or four times on the same brick (edges and sides). 

 Large unhewn blocks of white marble and reddish granite, varying in 

 d. from 25-60. Nippur III, approximately same place as PI. 1, 

 No. 1. Inscr. 6 x 5.3 ; 7 x 6.2 ; 6.5 x 7.7 ; each 3 li. Sq. 

 Cream-colored soapstone tablet, Rev. broken off, 4.85 X 4 X 0.8. Pre- 

 sumably neighborhood of Babylon. Inscr. 8 li. C. B. M. 103. 

 Fragm. of an ornamented soapstone stamp in the shape of a vase, 

 h. 13.3, d. 12.2 at the bottom, 8.7 at the centre. Presumably 

 neighborhood of Babylon. Inscr. (on the bottom) 8 li. C. B. M. 

 1126. Cf. PI. IX, 20. 

 Lapis lazuli disc, d. 1.7. The thickness of this class of inscribed 

 objects found at the same place, if not expressly stated in the 

 following lines, varies from 0.2 to 0.8 cm. Nippur III, same place 

 as PI. 8, No. 15. • C. B. M. 8685. 

 Agate cameo, d. 1.55. Nippur III, same place as PI. 8, No. 15. 



C. B. M. 8687. 

 Lapis lazuli disc, d. 1.6. Nippur III, same place as PI. 8, No. 15. 



C. B. M. 8721. 

 Agate cameo, bored lengthwise, 1.7 x 1.9. Nippur III, same place as 



PL 8, No. 15. C. B. M. 8723. 

 Lapis lazuli tablet, bored lengthwise, 1.65 X 1.8. Nippur I, apparently 



out of place, in a gully on the surface. C. B. M. 8720. 

 White marble mortar; an uninscribed portion is broken from its side, 

 h. 14.4, d. 12.8. Presumably neighborhood of Babylon. Inscr. 

 31.5 X 11.25, 27 li. C. B. M. 12. Cf. PL IX, 21. 

 The same, continued. 



Ivory knob of a sceptre (or conventionalized form of a phallus), top 

 rounded, base flat, round hole in the centre, h. 3.5, d. 5.9 at the top, 

 6.2 at the bottom. Nippur III, same place as PL 8, No. 15. 

 Inscr. 5.8 X 2.42, 5 li. C. B. M. 8730. Cf. PL X, 23. 

 Tablet in feldspar (mottled dark brown and gray), upper (inscribed) 

 surface convex, lower flat, 3 X 12.2 x 0.9. Nippur III, same place 

 as PL 8, No. 15. Inscr. 2 li. C. B. M. 8600. 

 Irregular block of lapis lazuli, upper part inscribed, 5.1 x 9.25 x 5. 

 Nippur III, same place as PL S, No. 15. Inscr. 3.38 X 4.48, 6 li. 

 C. B. M. 8599. Cf. PL XI, 25. 

 Door socket in white marble with red veins here and there, 46.5 x 43.8 

 X22. Nippur III, on the N.E. side of T. near the outer wall. In- 

 scr. on both sides of the hole, 11 li. intended, but only 7 li. inscribed, 

 14.3 X 14.3. Copied by myself on the ruins of Nippur, April 6, 1889. 



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