Nies James B., Keiser Clarence E. Historical, religious and economic texts and antiquities

Yale University Press, 1920. — 170 p. — (Babylonian inscriptions from the collection of James B. Nies 2).This volume embraces material that covers a wide range of years, from the fourth to the latter part of the first millennium B. C. It contains texts from Babylon, Sippar, Larsa, Lagash and Erech. They are written in Sumerian and Semitic-Babylonian or Akkadian; one is bilingual, another is a fragment of a syllabary. They occur on cylinders, amulets and fragments of various objects. They were collected by Doctor Nies during the past fifteen years. Some were secured by him while in Bagdad; others were purchased in Paris, London. New York and elsewhere. When such objects, of unquestionable value, have found their way into the hands of dealers it seems highly advisable to rescue them, if possible, for science by purchasing them, even though we know that some are the results of illicit excavations by Arabs, and that others may have been purloined from legitimate excavations by workmen.