Records of the Past Exploration Society · [Washington, D.C. : Records of the Past Exploration Society] · leaf 376
rom his considerable share in the preparation of the precedingvolume of Murashu texts, and probably the foremost living copyist ofcuneiform tablets, has almost surpassed himself in this new edition ofNeo-Babylonian texts. * Business Documents of Murashu Sons of Nippur. Dated In the reign of Darius… … MODERN BABYLONIAN WATER WHEEL The tablets were discovered by Dr. J. H. Haynes in 1893 at thebeginning of the third campaign of the Babylonian Expedition of theUniversity of Pennsylvania. Opposite the great Temple of Bel, onthe other side of the Shatt-en-Nil, the canal which divided Nippur into2…
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