Tablets from the R. Campbell Thompson Collection in Haskell Oriental Museum: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts ... (Department of Semitic Languages and Lit - Softcover
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The tablets here published belong to a collection presented to the University of Chicago in 1908, by Mr. R. Campbell Thompson, formerly assistant professor of the Semitic lan guages in the University. It is now known as the bi.c.t. Collection and contains, in addition to the tablets herein pu_b lished, (1) a few other badly broken contract tablets; (2) about fifty fragments of tablets, including the fragments of many astronomical texts; (8) nearly two hundred cones or fragments of cones of Gudea.
Most of the tablets are in a poor state of preservation; many crumble in the hands, while several others have been rubbed so badly that the text is scarcely legible. This has Irendered work on them very difficult. Few restorations have been made these are inclosed in brackets in the transliterations. Every trace of a Sign has been indicated in the texts.
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