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Excerpt from Tablets From the R. Campbell Thompson Collection in Haskell Oriental Museum: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Semitic Languages and Literatures) 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.