About this time native diggers brought to light fresh material from several new sites. Especially valuable were the texts from Kish, Larsa, Opis, Babylon, and Shittab. These were eagerly acquired by the various Museums, and shortly gave rise to a crop of fresh publications. In 1909 came _Babylonian Legal and Business Documents from the time of the First Dynasty of Babylon_, by A. POEBEL, being vol. vi, part 2, of Series A, Cuneiform Texts, of the _Publications of the Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania_ (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania). Again a fresh site, the ancient Nippur, yielded its contribution. Here most of the tablets exhibit the old Sumerian phraseology. A. UNGNAD published, in 1909, a large number of texts from tablets in the Berlin Museum, acquired at various dates. They appeared as vols. vii, viii, ix of the _Vorderasiatische Denkmäler_ (Leipzig, Hinrichs). Most of them undoubtedly came from Sippara; one from Der-ez-Zor, near the Chabour, and those in vol. vii from Dilbat, apparently the modern Delam. Thus we can again compare contemporary documents from a fresh site, which proves to have been influenced by other peoples, the Mitanni, Elamites, &c. In _Urkunden aus Dilbat_, vol. vi, part 5, of the _Beiträge zur Assyriologie_ (Leipzig, Hinrichs, 1909), A. UNGNAD transcribes, translates, and comments upon the large collection of letters and contracts which had been published from Dilbat. His works brought a large amount of most valuable information for the period. In 1910 THUREAU-DANGIN issued _Lettres et contrats de l’époque de la Première dynastie babylonienne_ (Paris, Geuthner), a most valuable work for its indexes, as well as the interesting texts. A long and extremely fine text was also given by him as _Un jugement sous Ammiditana_, in _Revue d’Assyriologie_, 1910, pp. 121-7. Here were texts from Sippara, Babylon, Dilbat, Kish, and possibly Shittab, as well as some more from Der-ez-Zor. In the _Revue d’Assyriologie_, 1911, pp. 68-79, THUREAU-DANGIN published _Sept contrats_ of the reigns of the kings of Kish, who were contemporary with the foundation of the First Dynasty and themselves Amorites. ST. LANGDON published several more of these _Tablets from Kish_ in the _Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology_, 1911, pp. 185-96, and in the same journal for 1912, pp. 109-13, gave eleven _Contracts from Larsa_. C. E. KEISER published _Tags and Labels from Nippur_ in _The Museum Journal of Philadelphia_, vol. iii, no. 2, pp. 29-31. These closely related documents form a borderland between contracts and accounts. These contracts are so much more important for the elucidation of the Code than any later documents that we may now notice the chief discussions of them.