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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2011
This very important inscription is written on a cylinder in the British Museum, generally known as Taylor's Cylinder, from the name of its former possessor. For many years it was supposed to be lost, which would have been a great misfortune to archaeological science, since the only copy which had been made of it was a rubbing, or impression on paper, in the possession of Sir II. Rawlinson, which had become partly illegible from time. It was, however, at last discovered to be in private hands in London, and was purchased by the British Museum.
page 135 note 1 Received October 18th, 1859.
page 135 note 2 The original text will be found in the new volume of inscriptions published by the British Museum, plates 37 to 42.
page 160 note 1 Rawlinson reads Imanes; but the first sign although frequently im, is also very often used for u, and is replaced by in the name of the deity who ruled over the Sky.
page 179 note 1 The second sign in this word should probably be ta, and not na.
page 181 note 1 Received 18th January, 1861.
page 187 note 1 Received 24th January, 1861.
page 187 note 2 The cuneiform text will be found in Plate LI of the volume published by the British Museum.
page 188 note 1 The god Marduk (supposed to be the planet Mare).
page 188 note 2 Supposed to be the sacred clay tablets hid in the foundation.
page 193 note 1 Received 24th January, 1861.
page 193 note 2 The cuneiform text will be found in Plate LXYIII of the British Museum volume of inscriptions.
page 195 note 1 Otherwise called Nabonidus.
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