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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
Two lots of tablets have been found, one during the 1937 season and one in 1938, the total number of tablets and parts of tablets, excluding inconsiderable fragments, being about three hundred. The 1937 lot falls into two classes, here called A and B, the 1938 lot into three, here called B, C, and D.
page 45 note 1 Early History of Assyria, pp. 238, 239–40.
page 46 note 2 See Gordon and Lacheman, ‘The Nuzu Menology’ in Archiv Orientalni, x. nos. 1–2, pp. 51–64.
page 46 note 2 As M. Parrot says of this dating, proposed by Professor Albright, in Syria, xix, 184. M. Parrot's argument in any case, as he says that the close relation of First Dynasty monuments with those of the Third Dynasty of Ur precludes the lower dating, will not hold. The dates of the earlier dynasties must automatically be reduced by as much as the reduction in the dates of the First Dynasty.
