Chapter C: E. KEISER published Tags and Labels from Nippur in The Museum

Journal of Philadelphia_, vol. iii, no. 2, pp. 29-31. These closely related documents form a borderland between contracts and accounts.

These contracts are so much more important for the elucidation of the Code than any later documents that we may now notice the chief discussions of them.

Not much of this class of documents has yet come to light for the Third or Kassite Dynasty of Babylon. A. T. CLAY gave us vols. xiv, xv of the _Publications of the Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania_ (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 1906), entitled _Documents from the Temple Archives of Nippur, dated in the Reigns of Cassite Rulers_. They showed how the old customs were preserved and modified with fresh immigrations. These were followed in 1912 by _Documents from the Temple Archives of Nippur, dated in the Reigns of Cassite Rulers, the Museum Publications of the Babylonian Section_, vol. ii, no. 2 (Philadelphia Museum), completing the collections. Some of the same sort from Nippur, in the E. A. HOFFMANN collection in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, were noted in RADAU’S _Early Babylonian History_, pp. 328-9 (New York, 1900).

F. E. PEISER, in 1905, had published _Urkunden aus der Zeit der dritten babylonischen Dynastie in Urschrift, Umschrift und Übersetzung, dazu Rechtsausführungen von J. Kohler_ (Berlin, Wolf Peiser). These appear to have belonged to a family of Babylonians, some of whom adopted Cassite names. More of the same group found their way to the Berlin Museums, and more are in private hands and in the Louvre.