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After this come a number of small Vases, plain black, sometimes also with slight ornamentation in raised white or in lines incised down to the ground colour of clay: in one case, both styles are used together. Such ware is late; and is found in…

Marble slab, inscribed with signs of the Zodiac, from ruins of Dara, Mesopotamia.

Basalt slab inscribed with Greek magical gnostic names. From Nisibis, Mesopotamia.

Fragment of bitumen cement, with impressions of leaves on one face. Babylon. Inscription: Old label on back: 48

Fragment of a black stone slab, with Sanskrit inscription carved into it.

Slab of cement from Nineveh. Inscription: old labels: 49 on 'front', two hand-written labels in ink on 'back': Curious specimen of cement from Nineveh and W

One of four tablets in baked red clay, showing same septilinear cuneiform inscription on each. Inscription: signifies: Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, patron of (the temple) E-sagil, and (the temple) E-zida, eldest son of Nabopolassar, King of…

One of four tablets in baked red clay, showing same septilinear cuneiform inscription on each.Inscription: signifies: Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, patron of (the temple) E-sagil, and (the temple) E-zida, eldest son of Nabopolassar, King of…

One of four tablets in baked red clay, showing same septilinear cuneiform inscription on each. Inscription: signifies: Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, patron of (the temple) E-sagil, and (the temple) E-zida, eldest son of Nabopolassar, King of…