Meek, T: Some Explanatory Lists and Grammatical Texts (Class

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The following texts from the collection in the British Museum were copied by me during the summer of 1914, but due to the exigencies of military duties I have been unable to do much'with them until the present time. Rather than delay longer their publication I am postponing to a later time a more complete editing of the texts and am contenting myself now with merely the publication of the plates.

The texts are largely Explanatory Lists, together with some Grammatical Texts, and a few Syllabaries, unfortunately only partially preserved. They constitute practically all of the tablets of their kind that remain unpublished in the Museum. A goodly number of the tablets are fairly complete, while others are more or less fragmentary. It'will be noted, however, that the smaller fragments in most cases contain glosses and so are of importance. The tiny fragment, K. 7696, is significant in that it contains several new signs. I have arranged the plates in the order of the Museum numbers of the tablets as making for ease of reference. All of the texts are here published for the first time, with the exception of a few which are republished because of the corrections made on former editions, eg. The following were published by Langdon K. Slam in ra., XIII, 192; K. 8315 in ajsl., xxvm, 243; and Sm. 9 in ra., XIV,'20. A number of duplicates of previously published texts appear in this collection, of which the following may be noted K. 4242 is a duplicate of II R., 26, No.1; K. 9887 of II R., 62; Sm. 1701 of ct., XIV, 10; and Th. '1905-4-9.

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