Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1917 — Babylonian Tablet. [ARTICLE]

Babylonian Tablet.

Among the tablets at the University of Pennsylvania museum, Dr. Stephen Langdon has 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 four 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 the tal.e,” which is supposed to furnish 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 East people depend on bamboo.