Without her constant aid and encouragement I would have shrunk from a task which at times seemed too formidable to be carried to a successful issue.

As I lay down my pen after several years of devotion to this book, my last thought is one of gratitude to the beloved partner of my joys and sorrows.
MORRIS JASTROW, Jr.
University of Pennsylvania, _June, 1898._ FOOTNOTES: [1] Set forth in the announcement of the series at the back of the book and in the Editor's Prefatory Note to Volume I.
[2] In the Index, however, names of scholars have only been introduced where absolutely necessary to the subject.
[3] In his work, _Shamassum-ukin Koenig von Babylonien_, pp.

16-21.
Hence, I also write Ashurnasirbal.
[4] _Die Entstehung des aeltesten Schriftsystems_ (Leipzig, 1897).
CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.
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22.

See Preface.
35, 10.

Isin or Nisin, see Lehmann's _Shamash-shumukin_, I.77; Meissner's _Beitraege zum altbabylonischen Privatrecht_, p.