This well-preserved cylinder, illustrated on Plate XIX, is reported to have been found by a ploughman about I mile west of the tall, not far from the east bank of the river Tigris and close to the modern village of Nimrud at a point where the ground bears traces of Assyrian debris. It is hoped later on that it may be possible to examine this ground in order to determine whether or no this inscription is likely to have originated there. The cylinder was brought by shaikh Abdullah Nejaifi to Miss B. Parker, the secretary-librarian of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, in the spring of 1951. Miss Parker made a preliminary study of the text, and prepared a transliteration and translation of it. During the course of the season, while Miss Parker was fully occupied as photographer and assistant epigraphist, I was asked to prepare a final version and copy (Plates XX-XXI) for publication.