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OLD BABYLONIAN INSCRIPTIONS CHIEFLY FROM NIPPUR. 



Plate. Text. Date. Description. 



IX 21 Burna-Buriash. Fragm. of a white marble mortar. Presumably neighborhood of 



Babylon. Of. Plates 16, 17. 

 X 23 Burria-Buriash. Knob of a sceptre (or conventionalized form of a phallus) in ivory. 



Side view. Nippur. Cf. PI. 18, No. 34. 

 X 22,24 Nazi-Maruttash. Knobs of sceptres (cf. PI. X, 23) in magnesite. Top views. Nippur. 



Cf. PI. 23, Nos. 57, 56. 

 XI 25 Kurigalzu. Inscribed block of lapis lazuli, tablet in process of cutting. Nippur. 



Cf. PI. IS, No. 36. 

 XI 26 Kurigalzu. Fragm. of a votive battle axe in imitation of lapis lazuli (blue glass). 



Nippur. Cf. Pi. 20, No. 39. 

 XI 27 c. 1350 B.C. Pragm. of a votive battle axe in imitation of lapis lazuli, 8.32 X 



5.65 x 5.1. Nippur III, same place as PI. 8, No. 15. C. B. M. 



XI 



28 



c. 1350 B.C. 



XII 29-31 c. 1150 B.C. 



XII 32, 33 



XIII 34 



XIV 35 

 XV 36 



c. 1100 B.C. 



Nabopolassar. 



Nebuchadrezzar II. 



1889 A.D. 



Fragm. of a votive battle axe in lapis lazuli, 6.4 x 5.7 x 1.5. The 

 inscription has been erased in order to use the material. Nippur 

 III, same place as PI. 8, No. 15. C. B. M. 8597. 



Three small fragments of an inscribed bas-relief in a basaltic stone, h. 

 c.5. Nippur III, on the S.E. side of the Bur-Sin shrine (cf. PI. 

 11, No. 19). 



Fragm. of a reddish granite (boundary) stone of phallic shape. Nip- 

 pur. Two views of the same stone. Cf. PI. 27, No. 80. 



Cylinder of baked clay, cartridge-shaped, hollow, small hole at the 

 top. Babylon. Cf. Plates 32, 33. 



Cylinder of baked clay, barrel-shaped, solid. Babylon. Cf. Plates 

 34, 35. 



Plan of the first year's excavations at Nippur (February 5 to April 16). 



