volume 2 - Robert Bedrosian's Armenian History Workshop

Results of My Fourth Mission. 291
and recommended me to the Treasury for an honorarium
of ;^200. Considering that I had not received any grant
for outfit, and that I had been robbed in the Sinjar
hills of much of my kit during the execution of my
duty, this amount did not seem to be excessive ; but
the Treasury granted me £150 only (June 17th), on
which, of course, income tax had to be paid.
The practical results of the Mission were :
2,552 Babylonian tablets, including contracts, letters,
reports and business documents, written
in the reigns of Sumu-abu, Sumu-la-ilu,
Zabum, Apil-Sin, Sin-muballit, Khammurabi,
Samsu-iluna, Abeshu', Ammiditana, Ammizaduga,
and other kings of the First Babylonian
Empire (2300 B.C. to 2040 B.C.).
25 Babylonian cylinder-seals in hard stone.
261 Ass5nrian tablets and fragments and miscellaneous
antiquities from Kuyunjik.
205 Arabic,* Syriac,' Karshuni,* Persian' and
Turkish* MSS.
218 Parthian and other coins.
248 Egyptian stelae, papyri, statues, and i Tall
al-'Amarnah tablet, and the statue of Teta-
Khart.
' These and the tablets form the 91, 5-9, 1-2559 Collection in
the British Museum. Several hundreds of them are described in the
Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Collections, and the texts of many
hundreds are pubUshed in various parts of Cuneiform Texts from
Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum, London, 1896 fi.
^ Brit. Mus. Oriental, Nos. 4340-4378.
' Brit. Mus. Oriental, Nos. 4395-4422, 4428-4444.
* Brit. Mus. Oriental, Nos. 4423-27.
' Brit. Mus. Oriental, Nos. 4379-4392.
• Brit. Mus. Oriental, Nos. 4393-4.