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grave. About one-half of this collection be- 

 longs to the Kyksos Period, and this contains 

 hundreds of examples of scarabs of which no 

 specimens were included hitherto in the National 

 Collection. The remainder consists of scarabs 

 which were made during a much later period, 

 and exhibit all the peculiarities of Delta work- 

 manship ; the hunting scene and the figure of a 

 lion with a paw stretched out over a prostrate 

 foe being among the commonest forms of 

 ornamentation. 



ii. Assyrian: — 



1. A collection of 28 " case tablets" of the Sumerian 



Period, about B.C. 2500. These are inscribed 

 with receipts for grain and other articles of 

 agricultural produce. The most noteworthy 

 are : — 



1. Two receipts dated in the reign of Bur- 



Sin, about B.C. 2400. 



2. A receipt dated in the reign of Ine-Sin, 



about B.C. 2400. 



3. Three receipts dated " in the year in 



which the city of Kimash was taken." 



4. A receipt dated " in the year in which the 



eities of Siburum and Lulubu were 

 destroyed for the ninth time," 

 0. Three receipts dated " in the year in which 

 the city of Anshan was destroyed." 



6. A tablet dated " in the year aftei- that in 



which Anshan was destroyed." 



7. Two tablets dated in the year in which 



the important fortification called the 

 '' Bad Mada," i.e., '■' Wall of the Land," 

 was built. 



2. An important collection of 43 tablets inscribed 



with rough lists of items of revenue from which 

 the large tablets, with their summaries of income, 

 were compiled. The greater number of them 

 are undated, and of those to which a more or 

 less exact date can be assigned may be mentioned 

 a list that was compiled in the reign of Gn.mil- 

 Sin, about B.c= 2400, and another that is dated 

 " in the year in which the Wall of the Land was 

 built." 



3. A collection of 32 tablets inscribed with accounts, 



&c., which were drawn up by the temple officials 

 of Shirpiirla. The greater number of these only 

 mention the day of the month in which they 



