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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



Corrections. 



Page 9, 1. 29 : For Allen read Allan. 

 Page 14, 1. 81 : For lissuhd read lissuhd. 



Pa S e 15, 1- 24 : i s to be removed. 



Page 29, 1. 26 : For I read II. ' blowing 



Page 37, 1. 5 : For Barnaburiash read Burnaburiash. .summer 



Page 43, ]. 26 : For M'enaut read Ifoian*. loration 



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results. In the meantime for the student i nave appended TO Mrora action a 



Bibliography of those contributions of its members to various periodicals which 

 relate to its work. 



Towards the close of the year 1891 there arrived at the Museum of the Univer- 

 sity some eight thousand clay tablets, together with several hundred fragments of 

 vases and other inscribed objects in stone, which had been disinterred in Nippur or 

 Nuffar.* I was able at once to proceed with the work of cleaning and examining 



* This is the present designation of the extensive ruins by the Affek tribes, in whose territory they are situated. 

 Although I repeatedly had the Arabs of the neighborhood pronounce for me the name they give to the ancient 

 Nippur, I never heard from their lips the pronunciation Niffer, to which Layard and Loftus have given currency 

 among Assyriologists. 



A. P. S. — VOL. xvin. A. 



