The tablet was hurriedly transcribed by G. Smith on his journey to Nineveh, from which he was destined never to return, and his account of it remained our only source of information on the subject until V. Scheil discovered the text in private possession. It has now been fully edited by V. Scheil and M. Dieulafoy under the title _Esagil ou le temple de Bêl-Marduk à Babylone_ in the _Mémoires de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres_ (Paris, Picard, 1913). It is obvious that this important document, drawn up in the Seleucid era, is a first-hand authority and must now be taken into account in any fresh attempt to reconcile the data of the excavations with ancient inscriptions. Koldewey cannot be reproached for forming his conclusions from the only data before him, and no one could be more willing to modify his conclusions if necessary. Whether what has been laid bare by the excavator be recognisable as consistent with the temple buildings as they stood in Seleucid times, or must be referred to earlier ages, remains to be seen, and the excavator himself has the first right to be heard on this point.—[C. H. W. JOHNS.] PUBLICATIONS OF THE GERMAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY Issued by J. C. HINRICHS’SCHE BUCHHANDLUNG, Leipzig. _Assur_ Cloth M. M. Der Anu-Adad-Tempel 1909 40 44 Keilinschriften historischen Inhalts 1911 12 12.50 Die Festungswerke. 2 Bände 1913 135 147 Die Stelenreihen 1913 45 50 _Babylon_ Die Tempel von Babylon und Borsippa 1911 32 36 Die Hettitische Inschrift der Königsburg 1900 4 22.50 Die Pflastersteine von Aiburschabu 1901 4 Babylonische Miscellen 1903 12 Die Inschriften Nebukadnezars II. im Wadi Brisā und am Nahr el-Kelb 1906 20 22.50 Die Ausgrabungen von Jericho 1913 60 66 Kasr Firaun in Petra 1910 16 19 Die Bauwerke von Boghazköi 1912 60 66 Die Ruinen von Hatra. 2 Bände 1908, 1912 91 100 Die Ruinen von Ocheïdir 1912 30 35 Nordmesopotamische Baudenkmäler altchristlicher und islamischer Zeit 1911 50 58 Kirchen und Moscheen in Armenien und Kurdistan 1913 40 46 _Abusir_ Das Grabdenkmal des Königs Ne-user-re 1907 60 64 Priestergräber und andere Grabfunde vom Ende des alten Reiches bis zur griechischen Zeit vom Totentempel des Ne-user-re 1908 54 58