Langdon Stephen. The Weld-Blundell Collection: Volume 2: Historical inscriptions, containing principally the chronological prism, W-B. 444

Oxford University Press, 1923. — 50 p. — (Oxford editions of cuneiform texts 2).The fortunate discovery of the entire chronological tables of early Sumerian and Babylonian
history provides ample reason for a separate volume of the Weld-Blundell Series, and thle immediate
publication of this instructive inscription is imperative. It constitutes the most important
historical document of its kind ever recovered among cuneiform records. The Collection of the
Ashmolean Museum contains other historical records which I expected to include in this volume,
notably the building inscriptions of Kish, excavated during the first year's work of the Oxford
and Field Museum Expedition. Mr. Weld-Blundell who supports this expedition on behalf
of The University of Oxford rightly expressed the desire to have his dynastic prism prepared
for publication before the writer leaves Oxford to take charge of the excavations at Oheimorrl (Kish)
the coming winter. This circumstance necessitates the omission of a considerable number of
historical texts, which must be left over for a future volume. I wish also that many of the far
reaching problems raised by the new dynastic prism might have received more mature discussion.