58 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BHITISH MUSEUM. 



Clay figure of a woman holding a child. 

 7 ivory figures, some having inlaid eyes. 

 Two legs of a box in the form of the legs of a 



bull, made of ivory. 

 Ivory handleless vase. 

 14 amulets in the shape of apes, hawks, &lg., 



made of quartz, green felspar, limestone^ 



&e. 

 Part of a slate palette with reliefs of 



animals. 

 12 weapons and implements made of flint 



and chert, very finely worked. 

 19 arrowheads of chert and flint. 

 3 axeheads of red breccia. 



1 macehead of red breccia and two of lime- 

 stone. 

 Head of the goddess Hathor, rudely worked 



in flint. 

 Four large rounded stones, red breccia and 



diorite. 



68. A bronze bar, at each end of which is an aegis of 



the god Khnemu. XXVIth dynasty. 



69. Steatite scarab, inscribed with the figure of a 



crocodile, &c. 



ii. Assyrian : — 



1. A collection of one thousand six hundred and 



ninety tablets from Lower Babylonia. These 

 tablets are inscribed chiefly with lists of the 

 properties along the banks of the Hai river, i.e., 

 the stream which joins the Tigris with the 

 Euphrates, that belonged to the royal temples 

 built by the kings of the second dynasty of Ur, 

 who flourished about B.C. 2300. The other texts 

 relate to contracts and business transactions, and 

 often contain the memoranda which the scribes 

 embodied in the large tablets and lists. 



2. Thirty-five " case tablets," incribed with deeds 



concerning the transfer of property, and sales of 

 slaves, houses, &c. 



3. Early Babylonian clay tablet, containing a list of 



names of goddesses. 



4. Three " plans " of ancient Babylonian estates 



inscribed upon circular clay tablets, with 

 measurements and figures, &c. Early period, 

 about B.C. 2500. 



