Lacock Abbey

Oct. 10

Dear Sir

I propose to call at the Museum on Wednesday. I would be glad if M^r Smith ^<1> would kindly look out for me the tablet S 954 ^<2> of which M^r Sayce ^<3> has given a translation in vol 5 of Records of the Past. ^<4>

It would be desirable to publish the cuneiform text of all those documents of which translations have been recently published but a critical enquiry Can only be founded on the original texts.

Yours vy Truly

H. F. Talbot

D^r Birch
B Mus^m

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Notes:

1. George Smith (1840–1876), Assyriologist.

2. Terra-cotta tablet containing one of the oldest hymns from Erech, old city of Babylonia. [See Doc. No: 04681].

3. Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933), Egyptologist & Orientalist.

4. Records of the Past. Being English translations of the Assyrian and Monuments, v.5, July 1875.