CUNEIFORM TEXTS

BABYLONIAN TABLJCTS, &cay IY TIIE

BRITISH BIUSEUM.

P A R T X I J ,

(50 Plates.)

PEINTED BY ORIIER OF THE rl'RITSTEESe

SOL11 AT THE ERITISIi MUSEUhl; Ahm 1,'r

1,OJYV'GhlANS & Co., 39, 1'ATb:I:NOSTER ROW; BERKARD QUI~I<ITC:II, 15, PTCCADILLY;

ASHER 8 Co., 13, BEDYO1:I) STREET, COVEKT GARDEN; 1ZF:CAN I'AUI,, TRENCII, T R ~ B N E R h Co., 1'ATERNOSTER IIOUSE, C1IAI:TNG CROSS ROAI,

AND

IIENRY WliO3\-1)F, OXFORD UNIVERSITY I'IiKSS, HITEN CORNER,

LONUON.

Part XII. of "Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablct?, &c.," contains texts

from eighty-five clay tablets and fragments of the Icouyunjik and other collectio~ls

The texts are chicfly syllabaries and may be thus described :-

(1 . ) Portions of an important series of U.rbylonian Syllabaries called 11) A :

~za-a-kz~, which, according to the colophoil of No. 92,691 (see Plates 10 and

I I ) , 111u.s~ have originally comprised at lcast thirty-nine tablets. These

tabletswere copied in thc tenth and eleventh years of the reign of Ar t a se rxe I..

Icing of Pcrsia from R.C. 46 j to u.c. 42 j, frotn a scrics of syllabaries at

Borsippa, for a certain nlan naincd Nabfi-kusur-shu, the ~o11 of &el-eriba,

who intended to mafie tliem a votive offering in the tenlple with the view

of securing for I~itnsclf future health and happiness. Of the texts the

following are published for the tirst time :--Nos. 36,991, 37,485, 38,130,

38,173, 38,180, 38,189, 38,372, 38,374, 41,499, 4 7 , 7 7 ~ . 93,036, 93,041,

93,0+3, 93,044, 93,045, 93,056, 93,057, 93,058, 93,059) 93,060, 93,0611

93,062, 93,063, and 93,064 (see Plates 1-23).

(2.) An interesting- series of fragments of Babylonian Syllabaries of various

kinds, of importance both for the forms of the characters explainecl and for

thc explanations given. Of these texts the following arc published for the

first tirne :-Nos. 3 3,681 34,950, 35,586, 36,333, 38,128, 38,129, 38,177,

38,178, 38,179, 38,182, 38,186, 38,266, 38,592, 38,744, 38,685, 47,935,

93,042, 93,063, 93,065, 93,066, 93,067, 93,068, and 93,069 (see Plates

24-31).

(3.) Texts of eight fragments of Syllabaries of the First and Second Classes,

which restore and complete several hrolcen passages in the texts published

in Part XI. of this work, Plates 1-5, 14-18, and 24 and 2 j ; they include

text No. 33,329, a duldicate of the text puhlishcd in Platcs 16 and 17 of

Part XI. of this worlc (Platc 34).

(4.) A group of Vocabu1arit.s belonging to the series SIG-ALAM : na6-rti-tz~nz, and

three portions of Vocabularies which have been attributed, though probably 7 .

on insufficient grounds, to the series. I hey contain much new nlaterial of

importance for the atudy of Assyrian iexicography (Plarcs 33-jo).

'I'he c.opies have heen made by Mr. K. Cainpbell Thompson, B.A., Assistant

in the Department.

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