Photograph from Prof. Albert T. Clay 

 PAY-ROLL OF WOMEN WHO WERE CONNECTED WITH THE TEMPLE SERVICE FOR TWO 



MONTHS 



The first two columns record the monthly payments, in grain; the third contains the 

 total, and the fourth the name. The holes in the second and third columns are check marks. 

 Only what is checked off was paid, as the sum total shows (see Professor Gar's article, pages 

 162-216). These tablets are in the University of Pennsylvania Collection. 



burned himself to death with all his 

 harem and his personal attendants. 



Sardanapalus is certainly meant for 

 Ashurbanipal, seen through Greek spec- 

 tacles ; hut he met with no such end. So 

 far as we know, he did what few Assy- 

 rian kings managed to do — he died peace- 

 fully in his own palace. The Greek tra- 

 dition has merely confused his fate with 

 that of his second son, Sin-shar-ishkun, 

 the last king of Assyria, who did burn 

 himself in his palace after defeat. 



All the same the reign of Ashurbanipal 

 closes the glories of Nineveh. The great 

 bully who had bestridden the ancient 

 world for rive centuries, slaughtering, 

 torturing, robbing, and boasting, was now 

 to fall, and to fall irremediably. For 

 generations the Assyrian had boasted 

 himself master of the world. 



ISAIAH S INDICTMENT 



Isaiah has summed up his bluster and 

 braggart spirit in a couple of verses 

 1 Isaiah x:i3, 14): "For he saith : By 

 the strength of my hand I have done it ; 

 and by my wisdom ; for I am prudent ; 

 and I have removed the bounds of the 

 people, and have robbed their treasures, 

 and I have put down the inhabitants like 

 a valiant man ; and my hand hath found 

 as a nest the riches of the people ; and as 

 one gathereth eggs that are forsaken, 

 have I gathered all the earth ; and there 

 was none that moved the wing or opened 

 the mouth, or chirped." "Shall the axe," 

 cries the prophet, "boast itself against 

 him that heweth therewith ?" The time 

 had come for the axe to be broken and 

 cast aside. 



156 



