THE BABYLONIAN PERIOD
could work, and for four days the tablets were brought into camp by boxfuls, faster than we could handle them."
The most abundant and interesting finds here were on a low mound, "Tablet Hill," close to, but not adjoining, the temple. Here, on the side nearest the temple, was a series of rooms with a school equipment of tablets and on the other side a great collection of documents relating to temple business, all of the ancient period. Farther away across the canal were found the large and most interesting records of a private banking firm and under a Parthian palace, another archive, of the Kassite period. Above the level of the rooms on Tablet Hill were various nests of tablets of later period and such nests of various periods were found in many spots all over the city. The business collection of the Temple archive contained both Temple business documents and private business docu-
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