It is a task of never-ending fascination to search through the many thousands of small and yet smaller fragments of the tablets from Kuyunjik, looking for new “joins” or for even minute duplicates of the many series and individual tablets already published. Assyriologists have now spent a full century at this intriguing quest and some of us, at least, will never tire of it no matter what new collections comparable, in variety and number, to the libraries and archives of Nineveh may be discovered.

I can think of no more appropriate token of the esteem I feel for Professor Cyril J. Gadd than to dedicate to him, on this occasion, some gleanings from the Kuyunjik collection, to the care and publication of which he has given so many years of his life. The new fragments I am publishing here belong to the Assyrian Dream-book, and it was when I studied the tablets of that series in 1954 that for the first time I met Professor Gadd as the Keeper of the then “Department of Assyrian and Egyptian Antiquities” of the British Museum. He made me feel so welcome and so much at home in the “Students' Room” that it has since remained one of my favourite places to do Assyriological work.