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Gold leaf-shaped object ; gold disk with reticulated border ; gold ring with eye-plate. 



Twenty cylinders and scarabei made of jasper, steatite, porcelain, etc. 



Necklaces made of porcelain, garnet, glass, cornelian, and other beads. 



Wooden cat with crystal inlaid eyes, and moveable lower jaws set with bronze teeth. 



Steatite fragment of a toilet vessel, in the shape of the head and neck of a lion held by 

 two hands. 



Pieces of millefiori glass, three whetstones, two ivory hands and arras, from Erment; 

 stone weight, piece of incense, and wooden model of a dagger, from Thebes. 



Terracotta lamp with two nozzles in the shape of Bes playing on a tambourine. 



Three small wooden coffins, with models of mummies wrapped in bandages. 



Mummy of a double-headed hawk, five sepulchral figures, and one sepulchral figure 

 with hieratic inscription. 



Thirty-nine ostraka with Greek, demotic, and hieroglyphic inscriptions. 



Porcelain bell from Sakkara ; ivory box with cover, and two iron chisels. 



Pair of silver bracelets and silver rinff. 



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Assyrian and Babylonian : — 



The number of objects acquired in the Assyrian section during the year 1885 amounts 

 to about 700, including fragments. Of these, the following are the principal : — 



A large and well-preserved cylinder of baked-clay. inscribed with 165 lines of writing 

 in three columns. This important document is, in great measure, a duplicate of the text 

 of Nebuchadnezzar inscribed on the slab preserved in the library of the East India 

 House. The text refers to the repairs and restorations of temples, &c., executed by order 

 of Nebuchadnezzar in the cities of Babylon and Borsippa (604-561 B.C.); and differs 

 from the slab in the library of the East India House in omitting parts of the 1st and 

 2nd columns, the whole of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th columns, and in inserting additional 

 matter in the text of column 9. 8ee Records of the Past, Vol. v., pp. 111-135. 



A large cylinder of baked-clay, inscribed with 170 lines of writing in three columns. 

 The text is of the time of Nabonidus, and refers to his excavations and restorations on the 

 site of the old temple of the Sungod at Larsa. His object was to find records of the 

 early Babylonian kings. Nabonidus states that Nebuchadnezzar had already dug there, 

 but had found no records earlier than the time of Burnaburias (about 1400 B.C.). 

 Nabonidus himself, however, was more fortunate, for he discovered a limestone tablet of 

 Hammurabi, a king who, as he says, reigned 700 years before Burnaburias (about 2100 

 B.C.) This monument he restored to its place with the cylinder inscribed with his own 

 name. The text ends with a kind of prayer to the Sungod, to his consort Aa, and to 

 their messenger Bunene. 



A limestone tablet bearing an inscription, in Apchaic characters, of Hammurabi. It 

 is a dedication, in the Akkadian language, to Utuki or SamaS (the Sungod), and refers 

 to the building of the temple of the Sungod at Larsa. Date about 2120 B.C. Apparently 

 the very tablet referred tc by Nabonidus in the text above described. 



A baked clay tablet inscribed with a copy, made during the reign of Nabonidus, of an 

 inscription on a stone tablet, being a dedication to the goddess lunanna or Nana, in the 

 city of Agade, by Duri-galzu, an early Babylonian king. 



A fragment of an archaic syllabary 



A fragment of an archaic tablet inscribed with a hymn in the Sumerian language. 



Part of a large tablet inscribed with astrological omens. 



A small tablet dated in the first year of Saraas-sum-ukin or Saosduchinos, referring to an 

 agreement between Nabu-naser and Suma on the one hand, and Nergal-iddin on the other, 

 about a boat. 



A tablet referring to certain amounts of produce received, for transport to Babylon. 

 Dated in the 11th year of Nabopolassar. 



A large contract-tablet of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, referring to a sale of land 

 opposite the great gate of Istar in the province of Babylon. On the edges of the 

 tablet are some very fine impressions of the cylinder-seals of the scribes who drew up the 

 document. 



Contracts and other documents dated in the 11th, 18th, 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 27th, 28th, 

 3l6t, 33rd, 35th, 39th, 42nd, and 43rd years of Nebuchadnezzar. The most interesting of 

 these are one referring to a loan from the Temple-Treasury at Sippai'a (18th year of 

 Nebuchadnezzar); one apparently referring to a judgment for debt (27th year of Nebu- 

 chadnezzar); and one recording a gift, made by a man named Sapik-zeri, of certain textile 

 fabrics, to the great temple at Sippara (35th year of Nebuchadnezzai"). 



A contract-tablet dated in the 3rd year of Neriglissar, referring to a loan of silver 

 made in the 26th year of Nebuchadnezzar upon the security of a house, given up for 

 occupation by the borrower to the lender. The contracting parties seemingly decide 

 that the money lent shall be regarded as the price of the house, the borrower thus selling 

 the property to the lender. 



A fragment of a tablet of the lime of Nabonidus, recording an application, by a man 

 named Bel-kasir, that his father Nadinu should allow him to adopt his own stepson as his 

 heir. The permission (as far as the document allows to be seen) was not given, the 

 reason being that Nadinu, father of Bel-kasir, did not wish that the family property 

 should go to any but his own direct descendants, especially as he had another sou 

 living. 



0.102. Tablets 



