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OLD BABYLONIAN INSCRIPTIONS 



Plate. Text. 



Date. 



151 



Esarhaddon. 



Nebuchadrezzar II. 



Description. 

 ilar to V R. 57, sect. 3, fig. 1), same object without animal (all 

 in the second row below) ; object similar to V R. 57, sect. 6, but 

 without animal (below the 2 animal heads). Lower section : A 

 seated figure, both hands lifted (cf. V R. 57, sect. 5, fig. 1), object 

 similar to V R. 57, sect. 6, last object, but reversed, large snake. 

 Inscr. 3 col., 22 + 23 + 11 = 56 li. Sq. Orig. in private posses- 

 sion, Constantinople. Cf. Hilprecht, Assyriaca, p. 33, Scheil in 

 Becueil XVI, pp. 32f. PI. £ of orig. size. 



The same, continued. PI. $ of orig. size. 



The same, continued. PI. £ of orig. size. 



Upper part of a black boundary stone, 33 x 38 x 20. Nippur. Inscr. 

 2 col., 6 + 6 = 12 li. Ca. Orig. in the Royal Museums, Berlin. 

 Cf. PI. XXV, No. 69 ; also Verzekhniss der {in den Konigliehen 

 Muscen zu Berlin befindlichtn) Vorderasiatischen Altertumer und 

 Qipsabgusse, p. 66, No. 213. 



Fragin. of a baked brick, yellowish, partly covered with bitumen, 

 18.5 (fragm.) X 7.3 (fragm.) X 8 (orig.). Babylon. Inscr. (written 

 on the edge) 15 x 6, 11 li. C. B. M. 14. 



Fragm. of a baked brick from the outer course of a column, 22.2 

 (fragm.) X 35 (orig.) X 9.2 (orig.). Abu Habba. Inscr. (writ- 

 ten on the outer surface) 33.6 x 8, 3 col., 8 + 8 + 8 = 24 li. Sq. 

 Orig. in M. I. O., Constantinople. 



II. Photograph (half-tone) Eeproductions. 



XVI 



Ur-Enlil. 



XVI 38 



Same Period. 



XVII 



Lugal-kigub-nidudu. 



Votive tablet in impure bluish gray limestone, figures and inscrip- 

 tion incised. Nippur. Upper section: A naked (uncircum- 

 cised) worshiper (Ur-Enlil) standing before a seated god and 

 offering a libation. Same group reversed on the left. Between 

 the figures 4 li. of inscr. Lower section : A goat and a sheep 

 followed by two men, one carrying a vessel on his head, the 

 other holding a stick in his right hand. Pho. taken from a sq. 

 Cf. PI. 43, No. 94. 



Two fragm. of a votive tablet in impure bluish gray limestone, 

 round hole in the centre, figures incised, 17.2 X 18.6 X 3, d. of 

 the hole 1.7. Nippur III, found out of place, in the debris fill- 

 ing one of the rooms of T. to the S. W. of Z., not far below 

 surface. Upper section : A naked worshiper standing before a 

 seated god and offering a libation. The god reversed on the 

 left. Lower section : A gazel walking by a bush (or nibbling 

 at it ?), a hunter about to draw his bow at her. Orig. in M. I, 

 O., Constantinople. Pho. taken from a ca. (C. B. M. 4934). 



Unhewn block of white calcite stalagmite, 29 X 21 X 19.5. Nip- 

 pur III, c. 10 m. below surface under the rooms of T. on the 

 S. E. side of Z. Inscr. 10.3 x 6, 4 (orig. 8?) li. C. B. M. 

 10050. 



