76 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



27-52. A collection of bone amulets, figures of sacred 

 animals, etc. Found in a predynastic tomb at 

 Khizam. 



V. — 1. A massive Nubian sandstone capital of a pillar, from 

 the ruins of a Meroitic temple on the Island of 

 Faras on the Sudan frontier. Roman Period. 

 2. A smaller, but in other respects, similar capital. 

 From Faras. Late Roman Period. 



ii,— Assyrian : — 



i. — 1-35. A collection of fifteen fragments of baked clay 

 cylinders inscribed with texts recording campaigns 

 carried out by Sennacherib during the early years 

 of his reign, and describing his building opera- 

 tions at Nineveh. They belong to the cylinders 

 deposited by the king in the great north gate of 

 the city, behind the colossal bulls, and deal with 

 the year B.C. 705, and the following years. 



16-136. A collection of one hundred and twenty-one Baby- 

 lonian tablets, inscribed with contracts, letters, 

 receipts, etc., dating from about B.C. 2000. From 

 Larsa (Senkereh). 



137-504. One hundred and sixty-eight Babylonian tablets 

 inscribed with contracts, etc. About B.C. 2000. 

 From Abu Ibrahim. 



505-824. A collection of three hundred and twenty tablets 

 inscribed with texts relating to the distribution of 

 stores and rations to ofiicials travelling between 

 Elam and Babylonia. The proper names are 

 especially valuable. About B.C. 2500. From 

 Telloh. 



825-868. A collection of forty-four tablets inscribed with 

 commercial texts of the period of the Seleucidae. 



869-3853. A collection of two thousand nine hundred and 

 ejghty three tablets of a miscellaneous character, 

 but dealing with the agricultural operations 

 carried out on the great temple estates of Lower 

 Babylonia, about B.C. 2000. Some are from 

 Telloh and some from Drehem, the latter being of 

 much importance, for they deal with a district of 

 which very little is known, and refer to the supply 

 of beasts for sacrifice in the temple of Enlil at 

 Nippur, 

 ii. — 1. A collection of eleven cylinder-seals in haematite, 

 caruelian, shell, etc., the oldest belonging to the 

 Babylonian Period, about B.C. 2300, and the latest 

 to the Persian Period, about B.C. 500. 

 iii.— 1. Su^perian clay sealing, of cylindrical form, dated 

 in the reign of Dungi, King of Ur, about 

 B.C. 2400. 



