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OLD BABYLONIAN INSCRIPTIONS CHIEFLY FROM NIPPUR. 



Plate. Text. 



Date. 



XXVI 71 c. 350 B.C. 



XXVII 72 At least 4000 B.C. 



XXVIII 73 At least 4000 B.C. 



XXIX 74 Ur-Gur. 



XXX 75 1894 A.D. 



Description. 

 Lehmann in Actes du huitieme congres international cles orien- 

 talists, 1889, Semitic section B, p. 206]). C. B. M. 10049. 



Bas-relief in baked clay, brown, upper corner and part of lower left 

 corner wanting, 14.3 X 17 X 3.7. Nippur III, approximately 

 same place as P). XVI, No. 38. Man fighting a lion. Bearded 

 man with a conical head-dress and mass of locks falling over 

 his neck, clad in a short, tight, sleeveless, fringed coat, his left 

 knee resting on the ground. He is thrusting his sword into 

 the flank of a lion, at the same time in defense raising his left 

 arm against the lion's head. The lion, having received a wound 

 over his right foreleg, stands on his hind legs, clutching the 

 sides of his enemy with his fore paws and burying his teeth in 

 the man's left shoulder. Part of man's left foot and of lion's 

 tail and left hind leg wanting. On right side of plinth (0.6 

 deep) traces of five Aramaic letters, left side broken off. Orig. 

 in M. I. O., Constantinople. Pho. taken from a ca. (C. B. M. 

 9477). 



Terra-cotta vase with rope pattern, in upright position as found in 

 trench, an Arab on each side ; h. 63.5, d. at the top 53. Nippur 

 III, 5.49 m. below the E. foundation of Ur-Gur's Z. 



Arch of baked brick, laid in clay mortar, h. 71, span 51, rise 33. 

 Bricks convex on one side, flat on the other. Front of arch 

 opened to let light pass through. Nippur III, at the orifice of 

 an open drain c. 7 m. below the E. corner of Ur-Gur's Z. 

 View taken from inside the drain. 



N. W. facade of the first stage of Ur-Gur's Z. A section of the 

 drain which surrounded Z. is seen at the bottom of the trench. 

 Nippur III. 



General and distant view of the excavations at T., taken from an 

 immense heap of excavated earth to the E. of Z. Nippur III. 



