In 1893 a great advance was made by MEISSNER with his _Beiträge zum altbabylonischen Privatrecht_ (Leipzig, Hinrichs), which gave a full transliteration and translation of 111 texts, all carefully published in autography. Full notes and invaluable comments made this a standard work. The texts were chiefly from tablets found at Sippara, and stored in the British Museum, and at Berlin where a large quantity had been purchased. MEISSNER also reproduced some of the Warka texts. In the fourth volume of SCHRADER’S _Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek_, 1896, F. E. PEISER gave a collection of contract texts in transcription and translation, arranged in chronological order. He included thirty-one texts of this period (Berlin, Reuther and Reichard). These were called _Texte juristischen und geschäftlichen Inhalts_, and marked a further advance in treatment. In this year also began the great series of publications called _Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, &c., in the British Museum, printed by order of the Trustees_. Vols. ii, iv, vi, and viii (1896, 1897, 1898, 1899), contain copies of no fewer than 395 texts mostly of this period, a most valuable addition to our knowledge of the subject. They were from the practised hand of T. G. PINCHES, who gave in the _Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society_, 1897 and 1899, some transliterations and translations with notes and comments on fifteen of them. They were all Sippara tablets. In 1902 appeared _Une saison de fouilles à Sippar_ (Le Caire, Institut Français), in which V. SCHEIL gave an account of his explorations at Abu Habba, the ancient Sippara, in 1892-1893, and many texts in a preliminary form, with transcription, translation, and comments, thus making known a most valuable supplement to the earlier publications of First Dynasty tablets. In 1906 TH. FRIEDRICH published in the _Beiträge zur Assyriologie_, vol. v, a number of texts from the tablets found by SCHEIL at Sippara, and then preserved in the Museum at Constantinople, as _Altbabylonische Urkunden aus Sippara_ (Leipzig, Hinrichs), which completed SCHEIL’S work in many ways. In 1906, A. H. RANKE published _Babylonian Legal and Business Documents from the time of the First Babylonian Dynasty_, as vol. vi, part 1, of the Series A, Cuneiform Texts, of the _Publications of the Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania_ (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania). They probably all came from Sippara, though two may be from Babylon, unless the king was then holding Court in Sippara. In 1908 J. É. GAUTIER gave us _Archives d’une famille de Dilbat au temps de la Première Dynastie de Babylon_ (Le Caire, Institut Français), with transcriptions and translations of sixty-six tablets from a new site, which the contents of the texts certainly prove to be that of the ancient city of Dilbat. The work was well done, but needed revision by fresh material.