BIBLICAL LIBRARIES
be idle," "Captivity which his majesty brought for the works," "Causing vigilance among the conquered." The pictures of brickmakers which accompany include some "clearly Semitic foreigners." Perhaps the most interesting library feature of this record is however the fact that there is a picture of the forty leather rolls, of the law which stood before the judges—the picture thus of a book collection from the fifteenth century B.C.—and a collection of rolls, not tablets.
It is however in connection with the records of Thutmose's Syrian wars that this reign is of unique interest for library history, for in these records we have the various elements of the whole system of annalistic record keeping, grouped and displayed. In brief the records of the campaign were taken day by day on a roll and, with other rolls giving account of commissary and tribute matters, were deposited in the palace library. From both
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