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state of preservation, it must be regarded as one of the finest and most complete Babylonian religious texts which have hitherto been recovered.
After the plates in this volume had been printed off, and whilst I was engaged in making a hand-list of the smaller fragments in the Kuyunjik Collections, I identified ten additional fragments of the Creation Serics, belonging to copies of the First, Second, Fifth, and Seventh Tablets of the composition. The texts of these fragments, as well as those of some other closely allied Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian tablets, are published by means of outline blocks in the first volume of this work.
L. W. KING.
London, July 29th, 1902.
