VI. The collection Bu. 88-5-18, purchased by Dr. E. A. W. Budge in the East, consists of some seven hundred tablets. They are said to come from Sippara; and date from _b.c._ 2300 to the time of Darius. These will be denoted by B1. VII. The collection Bu. 91-5-9, also purchased by Dr. E. A. W. Budge in the East, consists of some three thousand tablets. These will be denoted by B2. The purchases for the British Museum also include a large number of other tablets of this period. They are now numbered consecutively, thus Bu. 91-5-9, 606 is known as Brit. Mus. No. 92,679. This renders it difficult to further particularize the contents of the collections; or to know whether a given tablet belongs to one of the above collections. (M26) In the Museum of the Louvre at Paris are a few tablets belonging to this epoch. Seven of them are published in M. Heuzey’s _Découvertes en Chaldée_.(28) (M27) At the Berlin Museum is a collection known by the name of Homsy. The tablets are marked V. A. Th., but this mark includes other tablets widely separated in date and found at different sites. (M28) At the University of Pennsylvania collections known as J. S., Kh., and H. contain tablets of this period. Professor E. F. Harper, writing in _Hebraica_,(29) gives some account of these collections; from which it appears that the J. S. collection contains tablets of Ḥammurabi, Samsuiluna, and Ammiditana; while the Kh. collection has tablets of Ḥammurabi, Samsuiluna, Ammiditana, and Ammizaduga. He announced the discovery of the name of Abêshu on contemporary documents,(30) belonging to that reign. The two collections contain over a thousand tablets. The H collection has six hundred and thirty-two tablets, many of this epoch. (M29) In the Imperial Ottoman Museum at Constantinople are a large number of tablets of this period. They are denoted by N, the Nippur collection found by the American explorers there; S, the Sippar collection from the explorations conducted by Pater V. Scheil at Abu Habba; the T or Telloh collection from the explorations of De Sarzec. A few tablets are owned by Sir Henry Peek, Bart. A few tablets exist in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, the gift of Mr. Bosanquet. The Rev. J. G. Ward possesses a tablet, published by Dr. T. G. Pinches in _P. S. B. A._, XXI., pp. 158-63, of the time of Mana-balte-el, which seems to be of this period. A number of other tablets of the period are known to be in different museums or in the hands of private individuals. (M30) The historical value of the events used in dating these tablets was recognized by G. Smith, who published the dates of a number of the Loftus tablets, in the fourth volume of the _Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia_, p. 36.