MAY 11 1896 



ARTICLE IY. 



OLD BABYLONIAN INSCRIPTIONS CHIEFLY FROM NIPPUR 



PART II. 

 BY H. V. HILPRECHT, Ph.D., D.D., 



Professor of Assyrian and Comparative Semitic Philology and Curator of the Babylonian Museum in the University of Pennsylv, 



Read before the American Philosophical Society, January 17, 1896. 



PREFACE. 



The publication of the history of the American Expedition to N/uffar, announced 

 in the Preface to the first part of the present work, has been delayed by unforeseen 

 circumstances. In view of the increased interest 1 in these excavations, it seems now 

 necessary to summarize the principal results' 2 and submit them to a wider circle of 

 students. 



The expedition left America in the summer, 1888, and has continued to the pres- 

 ent day, with but short intervals required for the welfare and temporary rest of the 

 members in the field and for replenishing the exhausted stores of the camp. The 

 results obtained have been extraordinary, and, in the opinion of the undersigned editor, 

 have fully repaid the great amount of time and unselfish devotion, the constant sacri- 

 fice of health and comfort, and the large pecuniary outlay, which up to date has reached 

 the sum of $70,000. Three periods can be distinguished in the history of the exca- 

 vations. 



1 Cf. especially the official report on the results of the excavations sent by Hon. A. W. Terrell, the United States 

 Minister in Constantinople, to his government in Washington, summer, 1894. 



2 For details cf. the "Bibliography of the Expedition," in Part I, p. 45. To the list there given may be added 

 Peters, "Some Recent Results of the University of Pennsylvania Excavations at Nippur," in The American Journal 

 of Archcsology X, pp. 13-46, 353-368 (with copious extracts from Mr. Haynes' weekly reports to the Committee in 

 Philadelphia) ; Hilprecht, "Aus Briefen an C. Bezold," in Zeitschrif I fur Assyriologie YIH, pp. 386-391 ; Assyriaca, 

 Sections I, III-VI. A brief sketch of the history and chief results of the " American Excavations in Nuffar " will be 

 found in Hilprecht, Recent Research in BMe Lands, pp. 45-63. 



a. p. s. — vol. xvin. 2 c 



