PREFACE ix 
gratitude the debt I owe for counsel and help to certain of 
my friends, whose names I yet hesitate to state, “pour ne point 
leur donner une part de responsabilité dans les fautes que 
je suis seul coupable d’avoir laissé subsister.” 
They are: Mr. A. B. Cook, Reader in Classical Archeology at 
Cambridge; Dr. Bernard Grenfell, Professor of Papyrology at 
Oxford ; Dr. A. R. S. Kennedy, Professor of Hebrew and Semitic 
Languages at Edinburgh ; the late, alas! Dr. Leonard W. King, 
of the Assyrian Department of the British Museum; Dr. S. 
Langdon, Professor of Assyriology at Oxford; Dr. J. W. 
Mackail; Dr. A. Shewan; and last, but very far from least, 
Mr. H. T. Sheringham. 
