Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1917 — Babylonian Tablets. [ARTICLE]

Babylonian Tablets.

Among the tablets at the University of Pennsylvania museum, Dr. Stephen Langdon hits discovered one which is an excellent map of the-district-near Nippur. It is in effect a cadastral survey of a section about three by tour miles and shows canals, villages and fields. An Interesting feature is that the field belonging to the king is smaller than one belonging to the incantation priests. There is also a “field of nish food for the ordinary priests of the temple. There is a common for feeding sheep and a field of reeds open to the public, for the Babylonians depended on reeds, which grew to enormous size, as In the far Hast people depend on bamboo.