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THE BABYLONIAN EXPEDITION

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FROM <strong>THE</strong> TEMPLE ARCHIVES OF NIPPUR.<br />

the "Temple Archives," but also with the letters from the Hammurabi and the<br />

Amarna periods. Among these may be mentioned :<br />

(a) The use of Blu-ki,' or a-li-ki,' "city," for simple dlu.<br />

(p) The use of DISH before he-li3-a ~eculiarity so far met with only in<br />

tablets of the .4marna4 period.<br />

to thc sea." There is lastly a text wlricli is of tlre higliest importarice in this ronncctiom licre, but which has not been<br />

referred to by Clay, it being quoted by him neithet. under Gim~ (B. E., XIV, p. 58a) nor under """I~R.TuR~' (Z.C., p.<br />

576). Its importance consists in the fact that tbcre is to be found hetwrrn K.IS ( = girru) and BAR.?'UR~' the detcrminstivc<br />

for "city," lilu, thus showing co~ielusively that I

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