222 OLD BABYLONIAN INSCRIPTIONS 



First Campaign, 18SS-18S9— Staff: John P. Peters, Director; II. V. Hil- 

 precht and R. F. Harper, Assyriologists ; J. H. Haynes, Business Manager, Commis- 

 sary and Photographer; P. H. Field, Architect; D. Noori an, Interpreter ; Bedry 

 Bey, Commissioner of the Ottoman Government. 1 Excavations from February 6 to 

 April 15, 1889, with a maximum force of 200 Arabs. Principal results: Trigonomet- 

 rical survey of the ruins and their surroundings, examination of the whole field by 

 trial trenches, systematic excavations chiefly at III, Y, I and X. 2 Many clay coffins 

 examined and photographed. Objects carried away : Over 2000 cuneiform tablets and 

 fragments (among them three dated in the reign of King Ashuretililani of Assyria), 

 a number of inscribed bricks, terra-eotta brick stamp of Xaram-Sin, fragment of a 

 barrel cylinder of Sargon of Assyria, inscribed stone tablet (PI. 6), several fragments 

 of inscribed vases (among them two of King Lugalzaggisi of Erech), door-socket of 

 Kurigalzu; c. 25 Hebrew bowls ; a large number of stone and terra-cotta vases of 

 various sizes and shapes; terra-cotta images of gods and their ancient moulds; reliefs, 

 figurines and toys in terra-cotta ; weapons and utensils in stone and metal ; jewelry in 

 gold, silver, copper, bronze and various precious stones ; a number of weights, seals 

 and seal cylinders, etc. 



Second Campaign, 1889-1890. — Staff: J. P. Peters, Director ; J. II. Haynes, 

 Business Manager, Commissary and Photographer; D. Noorian, Interpreter and Su- 

 perintendent of Workmen; and an Ottoman Commissioner. Excavations from January 

 14 to May 3, 1890, with a maximum force of 400 Arabs. Principal results : Examina- 

 tion of ruins by trial trenches and systematic excavations at III, "V and X continued. 

 Row of rooms on the S. E. side of the ziggurrat and shrine of Bur-Sin II excavated. Ob- 

 jects carried away : About 8000 cuneiform tablets and fragments (most of them dated 

 in the reigns of Cassite kings and of rulers of the second dynasty of Ur) ; a number of 

 new inscribed bricks ; 3 brick stamps in terra-cotta and three door-sockets in diorite of 

 Sargon I ; 1 brick stamp of JSTaram-Sin ; 61 inscribed vase fragments of Alusharshid ; 

 2 vase fragments of Entemena of Shirpurla ; 1 inscribed unhewn marble block and 

 several vase fragments of Lugalkigubnidudu ; a few vase fragments of Lugalzaggisi ; 

 2 door-sockets in diorite of Bur-Sin II ; over 100 inscribed votive axes, knobs, intag- 

 lios, etc., presented to the temple by Cassite kings ; c. 75 Hebrew and other inscribed 

 bowls ; 1 enameled clay coffin and many other antiquities similar in character to those 

 excavated during the first campaign but in greater number. 



'D. G. Prince, of New York, was the eighth member of the expedition, hut during the march across the Syrian 

 desert he fell so seriously sick that he had to be left behind at Bagdad, whence he returned to America. 



2 These numbers refer to the corresponding sections of the ruins, as indicated on the plan published in Part I, 

 PI. XV. 



