PROFESSOR OF ASSYRIOLOGY AND BABYLONIAN LITERATURE YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW HAVEN
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON • HUMPHREY MILFORD • OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Copyright, 1920, by Yale University Press
In Memory of WILLIAM MAX MÜLLER (1863–1919)
WHOSE LIFE WAS DEVOTED TO EGYPTOLOGICAL RESEARCH WHICH HE GREATLY ENRICHED BY MANY CONTRIBUTIONS
The Introduction, the Commentary to the two tablets, and the Appendix, are by Professor Jastrow, and for these he assumes the sole responsibility. The text of the Yale tablet is by Professor Clay. The transliteration and the translation of the two tablets represent the joint work of the two authors. In the transliteration of the two tablets, C. E. Keiser's "System of Accentuation for Sumero-Akkadian signs" (Yale Oriental Researches—Vol. IX, Appendix, New Haven, 1919) has been followed.