Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century (1903)
Hilprecht, H. V. (Hermann Vollrat), 1859-1925, Benzinger, I. (Immanuel), 1865-1935, Hommel, Fritz, 1854-1936, Jensen, P. (Peter), 1861-1936, Steindorff, Georg, 1861-1951 · Philadelphia : A. J. Holman · leaf 488
be-low the level of the same pavement. They are rudelyfashioned, and appear to be inscribed with numbers only rep-resented bv straight and curved lines in groups of two, three,nine, and ten. In one instance a column of nine curvedmarks made by the thumb nail is flanked on either side by a 1 One in… … Exercise Tablet ut a ChildFrom the pre-Sargonic Fire Necropolis column of ten straight lines, made by the use of some otherinstrument than the stylus. One tablet has a single groupof nine marks onone side of the tab-let, and on the op-posite side are twogroups of two linesor marks each.This…