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had traveled through India, Turkey and other Eastern countries to study the history 

 of architecture to the hest advantage. In May, 1894, he met Mr. Haynes in Bagdad 

 and was soon full of enthusiasm and ready to accompany him to the ruins of ISuffar. 

 By his excellent drawings of trenches, buildings and objects he has rendered most 

 valuable service to this expedition. But in December of the same year his weakened 

 frame fell a victim to the autumnal fevers on the border of the marshes, where even 

 before this the Syrian physician of the second campaign and the present writer had 

 absorbed the germs of malignant typhus. In the European cemetery of Bagdad, on 

 the banks of the Tigris, he rests, having fallen a staunch fighter in the cause of 

 science. Even if the sand-storms of the Babylonian plains should efface his solitary 

 grave, what matters it? His bones rest in classic soil, where the cradle of the race 

 once stood, and the history of Assyriology will not omit his name from its pages. 



The Old Babylonian cuneiform texts submitted in the following pages have again 

 been copied and prepared by my own hand, in accordance with the principle set forth 

 in the Preface to Part I. The favorable reception which was accorded to the latter by 

 all specialists of Europe and America has convinced me that the method adopted is 

 the correct one. I take this opportunity to express my great regret that this second 

 part of the first volume could not appear at the early date expected. The fact that 

 two consecutive summers and falls were spent in Constantinople, completing the reor- 

 ganization of the Babylonian Section of the Imperial Museum entrusted to me ; that 

 during the same period three more volumes were in the course of preparation, of which 

 one is in print now ; 1 that a large portion of the time left by my duties as professor 

 and curator was to be devoted to the interest of the work in the field ; that the first 

 two inscriptions published on Pis. 36-42 required more than ordinary time and labor 

 for their restoration from c. 125 exceedingly small fragments ; and that, finally, for 

 nearly four months I was deprived of the use of my overtaxed eyes, will, I trust, in 

 some degree explain the reasons for this unavoidable delay. In connection with this 

 statement I regard it my pleasant duty to express my sincere gratitude to George 

 Friebis, M.D., my valued confrere in the American Philosophical Society, for his un- 

 ceasing interest in the preparation of this volume, manifested by the great amount of 

 time and care he devoted to the restoration of my eyesight. 



The publication of this second part, like that of the first, was made possible by 

 the liberality and support of the American Philosophical Society, in whose Transac- 

 tions it appears. To this venerable body as a whole, and to the members of its Pub- 

 lication Committee, and to Secretary Dr. George H. Horn, who facilitated the print- 



1 Vol. IX, Tablets Dattd in the Reigns of Darius II and Artaxerxcs Mnemon, prepared in connection with my pupil, 

 Rev. Dr. A. T. Clay, now instructor of Old Testament Theology in Chicago. 



