Hilprecht H.V. Mathematical, meteorological and chronological tablets: from the Temple library of Nippur

The University Museum of Pennsylvania, 1906. — 138 p. — (Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania. Series A: Cuneiform Texts. vol. 20.1).The cuneiform texts here published form a very small part of a large collection of
tablets and fragments once constituting the Temple Library of Nippur. In order not to
allow of any doubt as to the real meaning of my words, I emphatically state once more,
I do not mean the Temple Archive (on which cf. Vols. XIV, XV and other volumes
to follow), or the Temple School (on which cf. Vol. XIX, Part 1, in press, and
subsequent parts), or anything else but the Temple Library of Nippur. Enough of
the crude and unsolicited advice received during the last two years in signed and unsigned
American newspaper articles, journals, etc., as to what should constitute an Old-Babylonian
temple library, and what I should call the epoch-making discoveries of the
University of Pennsylvania's expeditions to Nippur. I must resent it the more, as I
happen to be the only Assyriologist who (however hastily in many cases) has examined
all the (more than 50,000) cuneiform inscriptions thus far excavated there, and who from
its inception to the present day has been connected with this great scientific undertaking.
What a Babylonian temple library looks like according to the facts furnished by the
spade, and not according to more or less confused theories, I have attempted to set forth
in Chapter I of Vol. XIX, Part 1 (in press): "Model Texts and Exercises from the
Temple School of Nippur." This chapter was written to form part of the present book;
but finding that the new mathematical and chronological tablets here edited required a
fuller discussion than originally planned, I was obliged to reserve it for the next volume,
in which the Temple School and Temple Archive are treated in their relation to
the Temple Library.