^ Underwood & Underwood 



A CROWD IN THE BAZAAR OF MOSUL, A MOHAMMEDAN TOWN ON THE TIGRIS RIVER, 



OPPOSITE NINEVEH 



The artisans of Babylonia were always ready to guarantee their workmanship. A tablet 

 found in one site was a written guaranty that an emerald set in a gold ring would not fall 

 out for twenty years, reading- thus : "As concerning the gold ring set with an emerald, we 

 guarantee that for twenty years the emerald will not fall out of the srold rinsr. If the emerald 

 should fall out of the gold rinsr before the end of twenty years. Ellil-akh-iddin and Belshunu 

 and Kahtin shall pay to Ellil-shun-iddin an indemnity of 10 mina of silver." 



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