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ascribed this fragment, with an interrogation point, to King Kurigalzu, 
whilst I placed the other fragment as unclassifiable, with other Cassite 
fragments, upon a page of my book where I published the unclassifiable 
fragments. The proofs already lay before me, but I was far from satis- 
fied. The whole problem passed again through my mind that March 
evening before I placed my mark of approval under the last correction 
in the book. About midnight, weary and exhausted, I went to bed, and 
was soon in deep sleep. Then I dreamed the following remarkable 
dream. A tall, thin priest of the old pre-Christian Nippur, about forty 
years of age, and clad in a simple abba, led me to the treasure chamber 
of the temple on its southeast side. He went with me into a small, low- 
ceiled room without windows, in which there was a large wooden chest, 
while scraps of agate and lapis lazuli lay scattered on the floor. Here 
he addressed me as follows: ‘ The two fragments which you have pub- 
lished separately upon pages 22 and 26, belong together, are not finger 
rings, and their history is as follows: King Kurigalzu (ca. 1300 B.C.) 
once sent to the temple of Bel, among other articles of agate and lapis 
lazuli, an inscribed votive cylinder of agate. Then we priests sud- 
denly received the command to make for the statue of the god Ninib a 
pair of earrings of agate. We were in great dismay, as there was no 
agate as raw material at hand. In order to execute the command there 
was nothing for us to do but cut the votive cylinder into three parts, 
thus making three rings, each of which contained a proportion of the 
original inscription. The first two rings served as earrings for the 
statue of the god; the two fragments, which have given you so much 
trouble, are portions of them. If you will put the two together you will 
have a confirmation of my words. But the third ring you have not yet 
found in the course of your excavations, and you never will find it? With 
this the priest disappeared. I awoke at once, and immediately told my 
wife the dream, that I might not forget it. Next morning—Sunday—I 
examined the fragments once more in the light of these disclosures, and 
to my astonishment found all the details of the dream precisely verified 
in so far as the means of verification were in my hands. The original 
inscription on the votive cylinder read: ‘To the god Ninib, son of 
Bel, his lord, has Kurigalzu, pontifex of Bel, presented this.’ 
“The problem was thus at last solved. I stated in the preface that 
I had unfortunately discovered too late that the two fragments belonged 
together; made the corresponding changes in the ‘ Table of Contents,’ 
pp. 50 and 52; and it being not possible to transpose the fragments, as 
the plates were already made, I put in each plate a brief reference to 
the other. [Cf. Hilprecht, “The Babylonian Expedition of the Uni- 
