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TABLETS FOUND IN ORIGINAL FILE
671
I ittle Palace, were imperfectly sun-baked bricks. With the aid of a plaster
backing I was here able to raise what had been preserved of a small series
of these in a regular file, and thus preserved a record of their original
N°7
Fig. (ioG a, b, c. 'Adze' Tablets.
arrangement (Fig. (>55). From the fragments of decayed gypsum with
which they were associated it appears that in this case they had been
enclosed in a gypsum coffer, broken in its fall from an upper floor.
This group of tablets is, as will be seen from Fig. 65G, a-c, marked
with a sign apparently depicting an adze,1 followed by numerals, clearly
shown on Nos. 2, 5, 6, 7 as 28, 6, 30, and 217.
The wliole or part of this sign is visible scored with an inner line at both extremities,
on all of these except the topmost, of which perhaps to indicate their sharpening at both
only the first half is preserved. The adze is ends.
671
I ittle Palace, were imperfectly sun-baked bricks. With the aid of a plaster
backing I was here able to raise what had been preserved of a small series
of these in a regular file, and thus preserved a record of their original
N°7
Fig. (ioG a, b, c. 'Adze' Tablets.
arrangement (Fig. (>55). From the fragments of decayed gypsum with
which they were associated it appears that in this case they had been
enclosed in a gypsum coffer, broken in its fall from an upper floor.
This group of tablets is, as will be seen from Fig. 65G, a-c, marked
with a sign apparently depicting an adze,1 followed by numerals, clearly
shown on Nos. 2, 5, 6, 7 as 28, 6, 30, and 217.
The wliole or part of this sign is visible scored with an inner line at both extremities,
on all of these except the topmost, of which perhaps to indicate their sharpening at both
only the first half is preserved. The adze is ends.