Babylonian Tablets 



in the Museum of 



The Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 



by 

 MARY INDA HUSSEY, PH. D. 



The twenty-one tablets, the cuneiform text of which is pub- 

 lished in the following pages, were acquired by the Buffalo Society 

 of Natural Sciences in 1913. Their purchase was made possible 

 by the extensive clandestine excavations that have been carried 

 on during recent years in Babylonia by the native Arabs. These 

 Arabs found out that Europeans and Americans were willing to 

 exchange money for the pieces of clay that were to be found by 



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