60 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



4. Eighteen fine terra-cotta cones, inscribed with the 



names of Urban and Gudea, kings of Babylonia ; 

 about B.C. 2500. 



5. A large pink stone Assyrian cylinder seal ; late 



work. 



6. Two portions of stone mouldings from the palace 



of one of the Persian kings at Hamadan, with 

 trilingual cuneiform inscription in Persian, 

 Median, and Babylonian ; on the larger frag- 

 ment the Susian version is wanting, and on the 

 smaller the Persian. The text states that Arta- 

 xerxes Mnemon (B.C. 405-362) built a hall in his 

 palace under the favour of the gods Ahuramazda, 

 Anaitis, and Mithras. 



7. Fragment of a barrel cylinder of Shamash-shum- 



ukin, which probably joins a fragment of a cylinder 

 of this king already in the Museum. Shamash- 

 shum-ukin reigned at Babylon B.C. 668-648. 



8. A list of royal flocks and herds. 



9. A list of offerings to the gods of Babylon. 



10. Green granite tablet of Dungi, King of Babylon, 



B.C. 2500. 



11. Fragment of a hexagonal cylinder of Esarhaddon, 



King of Assyria, B.C. 681-668. 



12. Diorite boundary stone, in the text on which 



Shamash-shum-ukin, King of Babylon, B.C. 668- 

 648, is mentioned. 



13. A collection of about 560 Babylonian contract 



tablets of various periods. 



14. A collection of fifty contract and other tablets of 



various periods. 



15. Fifteen contract tablets of the reign of Ammi- 



zaduga, King of Babylonia ; about B.C., 2100. 



16. Bronze lion's head from the pole of a chariot ; 



from Babylonia. 



Presents. 



1. Granite shrine, inscribed with the name and titles 

 of Ptolemy IX., Physcon, King of Egypt, B.C. 

 171-117, and of Cleopatra his wife. This shrine 

 was found lying on its side among the ruins of 

 an ancient Coptic church at Philse, in Upper 

 Egypt, where it had formed the platform upon 

 which stood the altar. In the hollow upper 

 part of the shrine a hawk, the emblem of the 



Sun-god 



