5, Richmond Grove
Barnsbury, N.
3d May <printed> 18 <manuscript> 77
6. Trinity Terrace Ventnor
Dear Sir
Thanks for your text the volume of the R of P <1> has been delayed by my illness. I want as many more texts as I can possibly get
Can we have the Ishtar and Izdubar Tablet? <2>
The texts of
Assur ebel ili W.R. S. I & III and Nergul sharezur I. p. 67 have not been done yet
What we have are
Rodwell <3> Merodach Baledan
Oppert <4> Khorsabad
“ Babylonian Contracts
“ Michaux Stones <5>
Smith <6> Assbanissul B.
Sayce <7> Bad Drern & prayer after
Boscawen <8> Borripper Nebuchadnezzer
Herbanic Tablet XII
No one yet has offered us the Lubare Legend
Yrs truly
W. R. Cooper
H Fox Talbot F.R.S.Notes:
1. Records of the Past being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments (London: Samuel Bagster & Sons).
2. Isdubar (also Izdubar) assasinated Istar’s love Tammuz, and she descended to Hades to find him. WHFT wrote several papers on the descent of Istar (also Ishtar). For his paper, ‘Ishtar and Isdubar, being the Sixth Tablet of the Izdubar Series. Translated from the Cuneiform’, read 4 April 1876, Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, v.5 part 1, June 1876, pp. 97–121, see Doc. No: 05377.
3. Rev John Medows Rodwell (1808–1900), orientalist.
4. Prof Julius Oppert (1825–1905), German Assyriologist, active in Paris.
5. Michaux stone, dating from the time of Tiglath Pileser I.
6. George Smith (1840–1876), Assyriologist.
7. Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933), Egyptologist & Orientalist.
8. William St Chad Boscawen (1854–1913), Assyriologist & author.