b^. ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSErM, 



lY. 1. Foundation deposit tablet of Eannatum, King of 



Lagash (Tall Loh), giving the names and titles 

 of tlie king and Akurgal, and recording the sink- 

 ing of a well in the temple of Ningirsn. 



V. 1, 2. Two tablets inscribed with mathematical calcula- 



tions. About B.C. 2400. 

 3-22. Twenty commercial tablets of the 1st dynasty of 

 Babylon. 

 23-172. A collection of tablets inscribed with legal texts, 

 and dating from the early part of the Persian 

 Period. 

 173-252. Eighty well-written tablets dealing with loans, con- 

 tracts, &c. Persian Period. 

 253-275. A collection of 23 tablets which were made during 

 the period that followed immediately after the 

 fall of Alexander's Empire. The tablets are well 

 written in the Babylonian character, and are of 

 unusual thickness. The seal impressions on some 

 of them are of peculiar interest. 



YI. 1-151. A collection of commercial documents and lists 

 written during the late Babylonian and Persian 

 Periods; two scribe's exercise tablets, and frag- 

 ments of two literary texts. The dated tablets 

 bear the names of Shamash-shum-ukin, Nabo- 

 polassar, Nebuchadnezzar II., Nabonidus, Cyrus, 

 Darius, Cambyses, and Artaxerxes. 

 YII. A large and important collection of North Syrian 



antiquities : — 

 1-7. A group of seven bas-reliefs in hard grey stone, 

 similar to basalt, on which are sculptured : 



1. The figures of an archer, after an Assyrian 



design. 



2. A man on horseback, soldier or trainer (?). 



3. Horseman wearing a conical cap and hold- 



ing a shield. 



4. A man holding a noose or lasso, 



5. A king. 



7. Warrior with spear and shield. 



8. A bird— vulture (?) 



8-13. A group of six bas-reliefs in soft limestone (?), 

 coloured pink, on which are sculptured: 



1. A conventional representation of the date 



palm, copied from an Assyrian design. 



2. The king ascending a ladder, resting against 



a palm tree, to perform the ceremony of 

 fertilising the palm. 



3. Lioness. 



4. A boat on a stream in which fish are ^swim- 



ming. 



5. Figures of a gryphon and bird. 



6. A king slaughtering a prisoner by thrusting 



a knife into his body. 



