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OLD BABYLONIAN INSCRIPTIONS 



Plate. Text. Date. 



59 129 Ammizaduga. 



00 130 Cassite Dyn. 



60 131 c. 2500 B.C. 



60 132 Burnaburia&b. 



60 133 Kurigalzu. 



61 134 [Kujrigalzu. 



61 135 Kurigalzu. 



61 136 [NaziJ-Maruttash. 



61 137 Nazi-Maruttash. 



61 138 [Kadashman]-Turgu. 



61 139 Cassite Dyn. 



Description. 



Two fragm. of a clay tablet, slightly baked, brown, 11.6 X 10.8 x 3.2. 

 Nippur X. Obv., 3 col. of inscr., middle col. Sumerian in Old 

 Babylonian characters, first and third col. Semitic Babylonian in 

 Neo-Babylonian script, Bev. badly damaged, traces of second 

 and third col. The tablet was written c. 600 B.C. Orig. in M. I. 

 O., Constantinople. 



Fragm. of a slab in white marble with reddish veins, 24.5 X 21 X 6.7. 

 Nippur III, approximately same place as PL 36, No. 86. Inscr. 

 2 col., 6 + 5=11 li. Ca. (C. B. M. 9794). Orig. in M. I. O., 

 Constantinople. 



Brown hematite weight, ellipsoidal and symmetrical, complete, weight 

 85.5 grams, length 7.3, d. 2.1. Nippur X (June, 1895). Inscr. 

 1.9 X 1.8, 3 li. (1. X shiklu 2. din hurasi 3. dam-kar= "10 

 shekels, gold standard of merchants ; " according to this standard 

 1 mana = 513 gr.). Sq., sent from the ruins. 



Seal cylinder in white chalcedony, length 3.4, d. 1.5. Babylonia, 

 place unknown. A bearded standing figure in a long robe, one 

 hand across the breast, the other lifted. A border line at the 

 top. Inscr. 9 li. Impression on gutta percha (in possession of 

 the editor). Orig. in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New 

 York. Cf. Hilprecht, Assyriaca, p. 93, note, Ward, Seal Cylin- 

 ders and other Oriental Seals (Handbook No. 12 of the Metropol. 

 Mus.),No. 391. 



.Fragm. of a lapis lazuli disc, 3.2 x 3. Nippur X, found in the loose 

 debris on the slope of a mound, and near to its summit (1895). 

 Inscr. 6 (Obv.) + 6 (Rev.) = 12 li. Pencil rubbing, sent from 

 the ruins. 



Fragm. of an agate cameo, 3.95 X 1. Nippur III, same place as PL 8, 

 No. 15. Inscr. 3 li. Orig. in M. I. O., Constantinople, copied 

 there 1893. 



Fragm. of an agate cameo, 2.8 X 1. Nippur III, same place as PL 8, 

 No. 15. Inscr. 3 li. Orig. in M. I. O., Constantinople, copied 

 • there 1893. 



Fragm. of an axe in imitation of lapis lazuli, 6.75x4.25x1-5. 

 Nippur HI, same place as PL 8, No. 15. Inscr. 7 li. Orig. in M. 

 I. O., Constantinople, copied there 1893. To the same axe belongs 

 the follow. No. 



Fragm. of the same axe, 4.2 X 3.6 X 1.1. Nippur III, same place as 

 PL 8, No. 15. Inscr. 4 li. Orig. in M. I. O., Constantinople, 

 copied there 1893. 



Lapis lazuli disc, 2.75 x 0.3. Nippur III, same place as PL 8, No. 15, 

 Inscr. of 5 li. (1. \_A-na~\ ilu Nusku 2. be-R-shu 3. [Ka- dash-man] - 

 Tur-gu 4. a-[na 6a]4 [a-ti-sh~]u 5. i-[ki].ish) erased in order to 

 use the material. Orig. in M. I. O., Constantinople, copied there 

 1893. 



Agate cameo, hole bored parallel with the li., 2.4 X 1.65 X 0.8. Nip- 

 pur III, same place as PL 8, No. 15. Inscr. DfogirEn-lil. Orig. 

 in M. I. O., Constantinople, copied there 1893. 



