Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets

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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets: In the in Collection of the British Museum British Supplement Notwithstanding the excavations which had been carried on at Kouyunjik by the late Sir Henry Layard, Mr. George Smith, Mr Hormuzd Bassam, and myself, there still remained in 1891 a considerable portion of the mound to be examined, and a native guardian was appointed by the Trustees of the British Museum to prevent clandestine excavations. In 1901 Mr. L. W. King was despatched by the Trustees to Mesopotamia to report upon the condition of the mound of_ Kouyunjik, and of the other sites on which they had already made excavations, and in the following winter a fa'rman to re-open the mound of Kouyunjik was obtained. Work was begun by Mr. King in January, 1903, and was continued until the spring of 1905 during the last season he was assisted by Mr. R. C. Thompson, at that time Assistant in the Department. 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.