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Late Babylonian Letters. Transliterations and Translations of a Series of Letters written in Babylonian Cuneiform, chiefly during the Reigns of Nabonidus, Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius. By R. Campbell Thompson, M.A. (London: Luzac & Co., 1906.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1907

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page 737 note 1 Instead of ‘before thee’ (ina pani-Ka), the author has, perhaps better, ‘an 't please thee.’

page 737 note 2 Lit. ‘beat thy head then,’ rêši-ka dikê-ma.

page 737 note 3 Dakuru was the patronymic of a Chaldean tribe often mentioned in the historical texts.

page 737 note 4 So the author. My translation of 1893 has “As a warning to my brothers I send this.”