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Excerpt from Documents From the Temple Archives of Nippur: Dated in the Reigns of Cassite Rulers (Incomplete Dates) More than a year ago the manuscript was ready for the press of what appears as \'ol. XV (thc tablets of which do not have in their dates the name of the king), including, r the discussions c(mcernin'gr the chcck - marlx's, stylus, seal, etc., which now appear in this volume (xiv). Since that time I have been ahle to prepare the texts with complete dates. The stiulv of which I had begun more than three y *ars ago. The publication of \'ol. XV having: delayed, I rearranged the ma terial contained in the introductions to hoth volumes. The (liscusshms concerning the nomenclatm'c of the (locmnents appear in Vol. XV. In addition to the main names in the texts of that volume. I have a large number, which I collated from hundreds of other tablets in our Museum, as well as from another small col lection also belonging: to thc ('assite period making in all nearly seventeen hun [this volume, it will he noticed, contains a large number of additional names] Discussions also concerning the many new ('assite names, as well as the many hitherto unknown names of deities, app'ar in that volume. 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.