Gugûa shall alienate none of it out of affection or will it away. Ea-zir-ibni shall not be disturbed in his possession.” The names of three witnesses are attached to the deed, which was “sealed in the presence of Babâ, the daughter of Nebo-zir-lisir, the son of Egibi.” 4 Journal of the American Oriental Society, xviii., p. 167. 5 We hear, however, of a “little girl of six years of age” being sold for 17 shekels in the thirteenth year of Nabonidos, but she was doubtless an orphan. 6 Xxiii. 14. 7 See above, p. 23 f. 8 Schliemann, Ilios, pp. 471, 472. Mr. Head shows that the maneh in question is identical with the Babylonian silver maneh of 8,656 grains troy, or 561 grammes, though the latter is now more usually fixed at 546 grammes. 9 In the Assyrian texts the term for “prison” is _bit kili_, of which _kisukku_ is also given as a synonym. 10 Our learned author has been misled in this paragraph by the utterly erroneous copy and translation of Father Scheil. The letter reads “To Sin-iddinnam from Hammurabi. The goddesses of Emutbalim which are assigned to thee, the troops under the command of Tnuhsamar will bring to thee in safety. When they reach thee, with the troops which thou hast destroy the people, and the goddesses to their dwellings let them bring in safety.”—CR.