A contract-tablet dated in the 32nd year of Nebuchadrezzar, and published by Dr. Strassmaier (_Inschriften von Nabuchodonoser_, No. 217), gives us an insight into the details of Babylonian sacrifices, though, unfortunately, the signification of many of the technical words employed in it is doubtful or unknown. The tablet begins as follows: ‘Izkur-Merodach the son of Imbiya the son of Ilei-Merodach of his own free will has given for the future to Nebo-balásu-ikbi the son of Kuddinu the son of Ilei-Merodach the slaughterers of the oxen and sheep for the sacrifices of the king, the prescribed offerings, the peace-offerings (?) of the whole year, viz., the caul round the heart, the chine, the covering of the ribs, the ..., the mouth of the stomach, and the ..., as well as during the year 7000 sin-offerings and 100 sheep before Iskhara who dwells in the temple of Sa-turra in Babylon (not excepting the soft parts of the flesh, the trotters (?), the juicy meat and the salted (?) flesh), and also the slaughterers of the oxen, sheep, birds, and lambs due on the 8th day of Nisan, (and) the heave-offering of an ox and a sheep before Pap-sukal of Bit-Kidur-Kani, the temple of Nin-ip and the temple of Anu on the further bank of the New Town in Babylon.’ Footnote 205: _The Ancient Hebrew Tradition_, pp. 282-284. Footnote 206: See the illustration in Erman’s _Life in Ancient Egypt_ (Eng. tr.), p. 298. Footnote 207: Mr. G. Buchanan Gray (_Studies in Hebrew Proper Names_, p. 246, note 1) suggests that Aholiab is a foreign name. At all events, while we find names compounded with _ohel_, ‘tabernacle,’ in Minæan and Phœnician inscriptions, no other name of the kind is found among the Israelites. Footnote 208: Sir Thomas Browne, in his _Religio Medici_ (Part i.), remarks on this: ‘I would gladly know how Moses, with an actual fire, calcined or burnt the golden calf into powder; for that mystical metal of gold, whose solary and celestial nature I admire, exposed unto the violence of fire, grows only hot and liquefies, but consumeth not.’ Footnote 209: An interpolation (Exod. xxxiii. 1-5) makes the worship of the golden calf account for the fact that, as declared in Exod. xxiii. 20, an angel should lead Israel into Canaan, and not Yahveh Himself. But it ignores the further fact that Yahveh was really present in the Holy of Holies as well as in the pillar of fire and cloud. Footnote 210: Hadad-sum and his son Anniy (see my _Patriarchal Palestine_, p. 250). Small stone tablets like those of Balawât, engraved with cuneiform characters, are in the museums of Europe. Footnote 211: Sayce, _Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments_, pp. 79-83. Footnote 212: