The very ancient texts from Telloh, usually called Pre-Sargonic, have been issued, beside THUREAU-DANGIN’S _Recueil de Tablettes chaldéennes_, by ALLOTTE DE LA FUŸE as _Documents présargoniques_ (Paris, E. Leroux, 1908, 1909). _Sumerian Tablets in the Harvard Semitic Museum_ was begun, by MARY IDA HUSSEY, with part 1 in 1912. _Two Tablets of the Period of Lugalanda_ were published by ST. LANGDON in _Babyloniaca_, 1911, pp. 246-7. Much the most useful publication, however, is _Tablettes sumériennes archaïques_, by H. DE GENOUILLAC (Paris, Geuthner, 1909), which gives not only texts, but transcriptions and such translation as is possible, and also an admirable account of all they imply, as to law and custom. A considerable amount of this is strikingly like the later laws. In _The Amherst Tablets_ (London, Quaritch, 1908), T. G. PINCHES published a few more. The bulk of them still await publication. _Ancient Bullae and Seals of Shirpurla_ by N. P. LIKHATSCHEFF, published in the _Imperial Russian Archaeological Society’s Classical Section IV_, pp. 225-63, 1907, written in Russian, gives a number of similar tablets. _Oriental Antiquities_, by M. V. NIKOLSKY, in the _Oriental Commission of the Imperial Moscow Archaeological Society_, iii, Series 2, 1908, has over 300 such texts. These appear to belong to the same period. Some valuable discussions will be found in _État des décès survenus dans le personnel de la déesse Bau sous le règne d’Urukagina_, by ALLOTTE DE LA FUŸE, in the _Revue d’Assyriologie_, 1910, pp. 139-46. In his _Recueil de Tablettes chaldéennes_ (Paris, E. Leroux, 1903) FR. THUREAU-DANGIN gave as his third series a number of texts of the Sargonic period, dated in the reigns of Shargani-shar-ali and Naram-Sin. A number more are published or described in the _Inventaire des tablettes de Tello conservées au Musée Impérial Ottoman_, Tome I, by THUREAU-DANGIN, 1910, and Tome II, by H. DE GENOUILLAC, 1911, and several other collections are to be published shortly. The very early texts from the ancient Shuruppak which have reached the Louvre were published by THUREAU-DANGIN in his _Recueil_ named above, and in the _Revue d’Assyriologie_, vi (1904), pp. 143-54, he wrote _Contrats archaïques provenant de Shuruppak_, with the intention of deciphering and explaining them as far as possible. CONTRACT LITERATURE. Many texts published in the above collections of Temple Accounts are bonds, deeds of sale, even legal decisions, &c., and really come under the head of contracts. But even among the collections of contracts some accounts have been published, and it is scarcely necessary here to quote the same book under both heads.