This is a sketch of the Babylonian calendar in the second century B.C., as drawn from the work of the two learned Germans above-named. Now we find in the British Museum a great number of trade documents which, according to the Catalogue, “cover a period of over two thousand years.” There are “tablets of the time of Rim-sin, Ḫammurabi, and Samsu-iluna; tablets of the time of the Assyrian supremacy, of the time of the native kings, and of the time of the Persian supremacy; tablets of the times of the Seleucidæ, and the Arsacidæ.”[2] [2] See _Guide to the Nimroud Central Saloon_, B.M., 1886. The dates of the rulers mentioned are as follows:-- Rim-sin, about 2,300 B.C. Ḫammurabi, about 2,200 B.C. Samsu-iluna, about 2,100 B.C. Assyrian supremacy from about 1275 to 609 B.C. The latest tablet in the collection is dated, according to the Catalogue, 93 B.C. These documents are all dated in such and such a month of such and such a year of some king’s reign; the months are the same (at first under their earlier Accadian names[3]) as those we find in the almanacs translated by Epping and Strassmaier, and we meet in them, and in other historical inscriptions, with the intercalary months, the second Elul, and the second Adar. It would seem, then, that it was the same calendar, worked in the same way, that held its place through these two thousand years.[4] [3] ASSYRIAN. ACCADIAN MONTH NAMES, AND TRANSLATIONS. 1. Ni’sannu, { _Sara_ (or _Bar_) _zig-gar_ (“the { sacrifice of righteousness”). 2. Airu, _Khar-sidi_ (“the propitious bull”). 3. ’Sivanu, _or_ Tsivan,{ _Mun-ga_ (“of bricks”), and _Kas_ (“the { twins”). 4. Duzu, _Su kul-na_ (“seizer of seed”). 5. Abu, _Ab ab-gar_ (“fire that makes fire”). 6. Ulûlu, _Ki Gingir-na_ (“the errand of Istar”). 7. Tasritu, _Tul-cu_ (“the holy altar”). 8. Arahk-samna (“the } 8th month”), } _Apin-am-a_ (“the bull-like founder?”). 9. Cisilivu, _or_ } _Gan ganna_ (“the very cloudy”). Cuzallu, } 10. Dharbitu, _Abba uddu_ (“the father of light”). 11. Šabahu, _As a-an_ (“abundance of rain”). 12. Addaru, _Se-ki-sil_ (“sowing of seed”). 13. Arakh-makru (“the } incidental month”), } _Se-dir_ (“dark [month] of sowing”). --_Records of the Past_, vol. i. p. 166.