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Title: By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Antiquities Egypt -- Description and travel Iraq -- Description and travel Iraq -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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men-tioned above, and asked me to say whether they wereforgeries or not ; and they offered to pay me for myinformation. When I examined the tablets I found thatthe matter was not as simple as it looked. In shapeand form, and colour and material, the tablets wereunlike any I had ever seen in London or Paris, and thewriting on all of them was of a most unusual characterand puzzled me for hours. By degrees I came to theconclusion that the tablets were certainly not forgeries,and that they were neither royal annals nor historicalinscriptions in the ordinary sense of the word, nor businessor commercial documents. Whilst I was examining thehalf-dozen tablets brought to me a second man fromHajji Kandil arrived with seventy-six more of thetablets, some of them quite large. On the largest andbest written of the second lot of tablets I was able to make The actual number of tablets transliterated and translated byKnudtzon (Die el Amarna-Tafeln, Leipzig, 1907 ff) is 359. 7 11 fare p. 140, vol. i.
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Letter from Tushr.ilta. Wing ol Milani, U< Amen lu-tr)) III, Kiiip; of ICRvpt. Bnl. Miis., No. 29791. i Cuneiform Despatches to Kings of Egypt. 141 out the words A-na Ni-ib-mu-a-ri-ya, i.e., ToNib-muariya, and on another the words (A)-na Ni-im-mu-ri-ya shar matu Mi-is-ri,* i.e., to Nimmuriya,king of the land of Egypt. These two tablets werecertainly letters addressed to a king of Egypt calledNib-muariya, or Nimmuriya. On another tabletI made out clearly the opening words A-na Ni-ip-khu-ur-ri-ri-ya shar matu (Misri), i.e., To Nibkhur-ririya, king of the land of (Egypt,) and there was nodoubt that this tablet was a letter addressed to anotherking of Egypt. The opening words of nearly all thetablets proved them to be letters or despatches, and I feltcertain that the tablets were both genuine and of verygreat historical importance. Up to the moment when I arrived at that conclusionneither of the men from Hajji Kandil had offered thetablets to me for purchase, and I suspected that theyw

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