154 THE BABYLONIAN TABLETS 



Tablet No. 1 7 



This is a list of butter, cheese, wool, and hides that had been 

 brought to the palace. It is lightly baked and dated in the 

 X+42nd year of Dungi (about 2242 B. C). Size: Length 6.3 

 centimeters, breadth 4.4 centimeters. It is said by the dealer to 

 have come from the modern Senkereh, the ancient Larsa or 

 Biblical Ellasar of Genesis 14.1. 



Translation. 



Ob. ( 1 ) 2 (gur) 2V 2 qa of butter 



2 287% qa of cheese 

 17 talents IS mana of gi-woo\ 

 56 mana of goat's wool 



( 5 ) 149 sheep skins 

 20 ox-hides 

 are on hand. 



Rev. ( 1 ) They have been brought into the palace. 



Month of Shuessha 



the year that Simuru and Lulubu were com- 

 pletely devastated (literally, devastated for the 

 ninth time). 



Tablet No. 18 



This tablet has disintegrated very rapidly owing to the crys- 

 talization of the salt contained in the tablet. It is a list of 

 names of nine men, followed by the name of their overseer. Un- 

 baked. Undated. The form of the writing points to the time 

 of the first dynasty of Babylon (2060-1761 B. C), which is con- 

 firmed by the names being largely Semitic. In the third line, 

 Ubar means friend, the rest of the name being uncertain. The 

 name in the fourth line is abbreviated from "May the God Milik 

 (be favorable)". In the sixth line the name means: "The god 

 Enzu was favorable to me." In lines seven and eight and Rev. I 

 the names mean, "The god Enzu has presented," "The god Enzu 

 has heard," and "Man of the god Enzu." Size: Length 4.0 

 centimeters, breadth 4 centimeters. It is said to have come from 

 Senkereh (Larsa, the Biblical Ellasar). 



