^{page 5 note 1} Luckenbill, D. D., Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, I, 288Google Scholar. In the building inscription of Tiglath-pileser III it is implied that his palace at Calah was adjacent to the Tigris.

^{page 8 note 1} See O.I.P., XL, Khorsabad, Part II. The Citadel and the Town, by Gordon Loud and Charles B. Altman. O.I.P., XL, p. 48, 49, and Pl. 36A for thresholds; and Plates passim for reception rooms. Thureau-Dangin, F. and others, Arslan-Tash 23, Fig. 10, and end planGoogle Scholar; Room XVIII was the throne-room or Bîtânu. Also by the same authors, Til-Barsip Plan, Rooms XXIV, XXV, etc.; conveniently assembled in Parrot, A., Archéologie mésopotamienne, 467, Fig. 129Google Scholar.

^{page 10 note 1} O.I.P., XXXVIII, 109Google Scholar.

^{page 10 note 2} E. Herzfeld, Iran in the Ancient East, Pl. LXXVII. Dr. C. J. Gadd recognised the parallel immediately and recalled it to me. I am also indebted to him for informing me that in Assyrian there is a literary reference to Sikkat Magarri, “peg of the wheel”, which is probably the linch-pin. See also Salonen, A., Die Landfahrzeuge des Alten Mesopotamien, 86, 108, 112Google Scholar.

^{page 12 note 1} Some doubt, however, may still be felt about the interpretation of the evidence in the “Throne-Room” where further digging is needed to enable us to say with confidence whether or no certain structural differences, e.g., the white plaster floor-levels, correspond with a later occupation. Analogies with Khorsabad suggest the possibility that these features are all characteristic of Sargon's workmanship. See O.I.P., XL, 20, 21, 22Google Scholar, for the technique of pavements and floors at Khorsabad.

^{page 14 note 1} Til-Barsip, 69, 72, and fresco in throne room, Room XXII.

^{page 15 note 1} Ingholt, H., Rapport Préliminaire sur Sept Campagnes de Fouilles à Hama en Syrie, 104Google Scholar, Level E, and Plates XXXIV, for parallels to the Nimrud ivories, XXXV for a basalt block decorated with rosette and reed columns. Polished red ware, Pl. XXXI. Hama was burnt by Sargon in 720 B.C. See also Riis, P. J., Hama, Les Cimetières à Crémation, 195, 202, 204, Fig. 238DGoogle Scholar.

^{page 16 note 1} O.I.P., XXXVIII, Khorsabad, Part I, 109, and particularly the evidence from Court XXXIGoogle Scholar.

^{page 16 note 2} Luckenbill, D. D., Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, II, 4, para. 8Google Scholar, for a similar inscription from Khorsabad, , and Iraq, XIV, Pt. 1, 47Google Scholar.

^{page 16 note 3} Iraq, XIV, Part I, 61fGoogle Scholar. ND. 1107, 1108, 1111–1113.

^{page 17 note 1} H. Ingholt, loc. cit., Pl. XXXIV. In level E at Hama more than one building contained fragments of ivories precisely similar in style to this Assyrian group.

^{page 17 note 2} Iraq, XIV, Part I, 48Google Scholar.

^{page 17 note 3} Now dated 671 or 666 B.C. by limmu.

^{page 17 note 4} Iraq, loc. cit., 17.

^{page 18 note 1} Important in this connection is the recent discovery at Sultan Tepe near Harran of at least one ivory closely related in style to the Loftus group from Nimrud. The Sultan Tepe ivories are associated with the period of Aššur-bani-pal, or thereabouts. I am indebted to Mr. Seton Lloyd for this information.

^{page 18 note 2} O.I.P., XL, 96Google Scholar. “In the writer's opinion the Khorsabad ivories, while undoubtedly importations to Dur Sharrukin, are of manufacture contemporary with Sargon.”

^{page 22 note 1} Reuther, Oscar, Ausgrabungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft in Babylon III Die Innenstadt von Babylon (Merkes). Abb. 90Google Scholar, and I.L.N., Aug. 16, 1952, Figs. 11, 14.

^{page 22 note 2} Arslan-Tash, loc. cit., Pl. XXVIII, no. 23, for the uraeus trailing in front of the skirt, and Pl. XXX, no. 29, Pl. XXXI, no. 33, for a seated sphinx.

^{page 23 note 1} Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli, IV, 336, Abb. 248Google Scholar, for the basalt horse's head, and V, 101, Abb. 122, for Andrae's reconstruction of it; also III, Abb. 152, for the bronze ornaments.

^{page 23 note 2} Lachish, III, pl. 41:5Google Scholar from room J 16: 1036 destroyed in 700 B.C. Length 17 cm., thickness 5 cm. I am indebted to Miss Olga Tufnell for this information. M. C. Richter, Kypros, Pl. CXLI, no. 4.

^{page 23 note 3} Now in the Nineveh Gallery, British Museum, 124783: assembled version from a drawing in Gadd, C. J., The Stones of Assyria, 165, and Pl. 15 (centre)Google Scholar. See also A.F.O., XI, 231Google Scholar. For a picture of the Nimrud bit see I.L.N., Aug. 16, 1952, Fig. 4.

^{page 23 note 4} Botta, and Flandin, , Monument de Ninive, I., Pl. 39, 64, 77Google Scholar, and passim. The studs are shaped like a figure-of-eight; similar objects were found by Layard in the room parallel to and south of the chamber marked AA, where a well and many bronze bowls were discovered; see Nineveh and Babylon, 178, 179.

^{page 23 note 5} Iraq, XII, Pt. 2, 187, ND 203, XIII, Pt. 2, 117, ND 496, and C.A.H., III, 108Google Scholar. Orientalia 22, Pt. 1, 1953Google Scholar, V.A.T. 13596, mentions horses at the akjtu festival.

^{page 24 note 1} I.L.N., Aug. 16th, 1952, Fig. 3.

^{page 24 note 2} I.L.N., Loc. cit., Colour Plate I.

^{page 24 note 3} I.L.N., Loc. cit., Frontispiece.

^{page 24 note 4} I.L.N., Aug. 16th, 1952, Fig. 28.

^{page 24 note 5} Herzfeld, E., Iran in the Ancient East, Fig. 254 and p. 140Google Scholar.

^{page 24 note 6} H. Th. Bossert, Alt-Anatolien, No. 612, for a bone disc decorated with a guilloche design, from Alişar.

^{page 25 note 1} I.L.N. Aug. 16, 1952, fig 29.

^{page 25 note 2} Our workmen immediately recognised that the wheels were made of mulberry, because the same wood is used for the pulley-wheels in the villages to-day. The correctness of their identification was confirmed by Dr. Phillips of the Forest Products Research Laboratory after a specimen had been submitted to him.

^{page 26 note 1} Iraq, XIII, Part 2, 1951, 104, ND 486, 805Google Scholar.

^{page 26 note 2} Lie, A. G., The Inscriptions of Sargon II, King of Assyria, Part I, The Annals, 73Google Scholar …. ‘elephant hides, ivory, maple, box, the treasures of his palace they carried off, and into the city of Kalḫu before me they brought it’.

^{page 27 note 1} Iraq, XIV, Part I, Plate I.

^{page 26 note 2} loc. cit., 47.

^{page 28 note 1} I.L.N., Aug. 23, 1952, Figs. 5–11.

^{page 30 note 1} Rassam, H., Asshur and the Land of Nimrod, 225, photograph opp. p. 222Google Scholar, and for the plan see T.S.B.A., 1882. I am indebted to Mr. R. D. Barnett for these references.

^{page 34 note 1} See Fig. 4.

^{page 36 note 1} They were: types XIVa, XVIII, XXVIa, XXVIIIb, and XXX according to the numbering-system at present used in the field.

^{page 38 note 1} It is, however, to be remembered that the preservation of business documents over a period of at least three generations is known from discoveries at other sites, e.g., Nippur and Nuzu, and we therefore cannot treat this argument as decisive in itself. The majority of the documents found in ZT deal with the sale of slaves, and record loans of grain and silver, many of them on the security of land. In so far as deeds affected land-tenure they would, of course, tend to be preserved for a long time.

^{page 38 note 2} See footnote to p. 5 above.

^{page 39 note 1} It is interesting and perhaps significant that at the bottom of course six there is a small projection.

^{page 40 note 1} Iraq, XII, Part I, 158Google Scholar.

^{page 40 note 2} Bricks meaṣured 33·5 × 34·5 × 9 cm.

^{page 41 note 1} Photographs from the air show that the river has taken many different channels since the fall of Calah.

^{page 42 note 1} Andrae, W., Das Wiedererstandene Assur, 119, 120Google Scholar.

^{page 42 note 2} Iraq, XIV, Part I, 30, lines 23, 24Google Scholar.