Notes from the Babylonian Collection, II: Old Babylonian HAR-ra
@article{Hallo1982NotesFT, title={Notes from the Babylonian Collection, II: Old Babylonian HAR-ra}, author={William W. Hallo}, journal={Journal of Cuneiform Studies}, year={1982}, volume={34}, pages={81 - 93} }
The late Edgar J. Banks, source of so many collections of cuneiform tablets throughout the United States, left a considerable number of clay cones and tablets to his widow at his death in 1945. When it became known to me in 1970 that she was anxious to dispose of them, contact was quickly made with her and with her daughter, Mrs. James McLachlan. Over a thousand tablets thus came into the possession of the Yale Babylonian Collection, where most of them are now accessioned among the numbers…
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