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carefully sifted, washed and cleaned,was moistened, rolled up in the form of a cylinder and then flattened on a board.   When the clay became sufficiently dry so that it would adhere to the stylus, the tablet received the necessary polish by being rubbed against a smooth flat board.  The stylus used for writing consisted of a four-cornered piece of hard oiled wood, the front end of which was cut off slanting.    Writing with this instrument was easy and did not occupy much time.   It took little more than an hour to write this tablet.

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(Foot-note.)   The text with translation was published in the [[underline]]Menu du Diner Offert en VIII Congres Internationale des Orientalistes  [[/underline]]   Stockholm le 7 Sept. 1889.

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   Rev. Dr. William Hayes Ward of New York, permitted copies to be made of twelve Babylonian and Assyrian seals in his collection.    Ten similar objects were receiv d from Professor D.G.Lyon of Harvard University; and eighteen Assyrian Babylonian, Persian and Egyptian gems from Professor H.Hyvernat of the Catholic University.

A series of photographs was purchased from the Palestine Exploration Fund.

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