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This sarcophagus contains many sections of 

 the Book " Am-Tuat " which are not found on 

 the sarcophagus of king Nekht-neb-f which is 

 exhibited near it. From Sakkarah. Ptolemaic 

 Period. 



ii. — ^Assyrian : — 



i. — 1. A fine series of 73 nearly complete, well preserved 

 letters of the period of the First Dynasty of 

 Babylon. These letters are of special importance 

 for the study of the grammar of the Old Babylonian 

 language, and for the light which they throw 

 on the social condition of the period. About 

 B.C. 2000. 



2. Fourteen fragments of similar letters, which the 



Arabs have attempted to make up into whole 

 tablets. 



3. Thirty-seven contracts, account-lists, commercial 



tablets, and memorandum tablets, some of which 

 are dated in the reigns of Samsu-iluna and 

 Ammiditana. All are of fair size, and belong to 

 the period of the First Dynasty of Babylon. 

 About B.C. 2000. 



4. Eleven smaller tablets of the same class and 



period. 



5. Eight small tablets inscribed with texts of a 



commercial character, of the period of the Dynasty 

 of Ur. About B.C. 2400. 



6. Fragment of a stone tablet recording the sale of 



an estate situated on the bank of the Takhiru 

 canal, in the neighbourhood of Babylon or Sippar. 

 On the obverse is preserved part of a plan of the 

 estate showing the canal bounding the property 

 on its western side. About B.C. 900. 



7. A contract tablet of the Kassite period. About 



B.C. 1500. 



8. Three contract tablets of the Neo-Babylonian 



Period ; one of these is dated in the reign of 

 Darius. 



9. Fragment of a cylinder inscribed with the Annals 



of Sennacherib giving a list of the Gates of 

 Nineveh in somewhat different order from that 

 found on the cylinder recently purchased by the 

 Trustees (No. 103,000). From Nineveh. About 

 B.C. 700. 



10. Twenty-two fragments of a cylinder, or cylinders, 

 inscribed with the Annals of Sennacherib. One of 

 the fragments appears to belong to a cylinder 

 which was made B.C. 698. 



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