INTRODUCTION
a "library." The matter does in fact not hinge on the use of the terms library and archive at all for the cause of the controversy himself seems to have accepted this very definition of a library as a "large literary collection" and the real trouble seems to come from just this — not from calling a small or non-literary collection library but from trying to make a certain collection live up to this definition by exaggerating the literary contents (or so it is alleged) from a few hundreds or thousands, to 23,000 tablets. In discussing thus the terms agreed upon by all wings of the Assyriologists it is not necessary to go at all into the merits of this very pretty controversy which reminds of older days when men took their religion as seriously as they do their scholarship now.
It appears then from this article that Assyriologists while recognizing the vast quantities of collections of records large and small are agreed in restricting the
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